(79 quotes found)
“I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.”
Michael Davis
“Courage consists in the power of self-recovery.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
Oscar Wilde
“There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.”
Barbara De Angelis
“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.”
Sam Walton
“There is luxury in self reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.”
“A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around”
Edgar Watson Howe
“One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.”
Arthur Ashe
“It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself.”