It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.....

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent....

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes....

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her....

We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies......

Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.....

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

If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced....

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.....

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know.  Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.....

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted....

People are like stained-glass windows.  They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within....

Don't live down to expectations.  Go out there and do something remarkable....

Success comes in cans, not cant's.....

Put your future in good hands - your own.....

I am not a has-been.  I am a will be...

The light of starry dreams can only be seen once we escape the blinding cities of disbelief.....

If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price....

 
Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.....

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.....

Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours....

 You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.....

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves....

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.....

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance......

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.  Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.....

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway....

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy....

Always act like you're wearing an invisible crown...

 The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable....

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.....

People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.....

It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head....

When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that they take better care of it there....

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.....

Knock the "t" off the "can't." ....

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.....

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers...

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.....

Don't be distracted by criticism.  Remember - the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.....