Assurance is two-thirds of success.

Assurance is two-thirds of success.

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.

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.

I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends call it.

I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends call it.

Confidence is courage at ease.

Confidence is courage at ease.

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.