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.
Marcus Tullius CiceroGod aids the valiant...both to you and to me He will give the help needed.
Saint Teresa of AvilaI used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess until in my first year I realized how intense the pressure was.
Hillary ClintonA bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
H. L. MenckenChiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands
Francis BaconIs any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?
Marcus AureliusIf you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful then you start believing you're fabulous then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!
Angelina JolieWe learn our virtues from our friends who love us, our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
Jean PaulIt is evident that skepticism while it makes no actual change in man always makes him feel better.
Ambrose Bierce