Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.

To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.

Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

Never put much confidence in such, as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly read more

Never put much confidence in such, as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.

One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die.

Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die.

There are 3 elements essential in the matters of the State, Food, Military equipment, and Confidence of the people in read more

There are 3 elements essential in the matters of the State, Food, Military equipment, and Confidence of the people in the ruler.
Of these 3, Military Equipment is the least important, Food being the 2nd important, and Confidence of the people being the MOST important.
All men rather die of starvation than in war, but nevertheless all men do die of old age.
Lacking in Confidence from the people, a state cannot survive.