“High walls and deep precipices on your path or hard rocks and big holes are not real obstacles! There is only one real obstacle on your path: Absence of self-confidence!”
“If I were surrounded by people who always approved of me, I wouldn’t need such a deep relationship with my own sense of right and wrong. And you know what that means? It means that other people’s approval is actually a hindrance, more than a helper, when it comes to self-discovery.”
“A woman stood in front of her with the peculiar poise that comes before the discovery of age and after the loss of innocence.”
“Empowered Women 101: If he’s with you, it’s a given that he finds you attractive. Don’t talk him out of his attraction by highlighting all your flaws and spending your time cutting down other women s qualities that you are jealous of. A real women focuses on what she has and fixes what she doesn t like. She doesn t blame people for not seeing what she doesn t always see in herself.”
“Unhappiness comes when we feel helpless. Hope comes the minute we decide we are not.”
“He recalls a lot of family worry about what he was going to do, and while he still sent in the occasional sketch to radio shows, he acknowledges that his confidence was extremely low. Despite his subsequent success and wealth, this propensity for a lack of confidence has continued. “I have terrible periods of lack of confidence,” he explains. “I just don’t believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view. I briefly did therapy, but after a while I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather—you just have to get on with it.” So has that approach helped him? “Not necessarily,” he shrugs.”
“Self confidence is greatest tool for success.”
“I believe in my sacred self.”
“Someone smells good, it automatically makes them more attractive.”
“He learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.”
“Don’t be led by the opinions of others. Listen to your sacred voice.”
“In this world of stars, I just want to be different”
“Discover your soul.”
“One paper boasted that its subscription and advertising numbers proved that America did not need the social change it rival paper advocated.”
“The Lord is my strength.”
“Walk on your own sacred path.”
“Lincoln jibed that a general INVADED Canada without resistance and out-vaded it without pursuit.”