People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, read more

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

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.

If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have read more

If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that read more

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that ... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act.

The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act.

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.