It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it is ridiculous to show it to others.
~ François De La Rochefoucauld
If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders how is all life to become important to him?
~ Sherwood Anderson
Your father used to say Never give away your work. People don't value what they don't have to pay for.
~ Nancy Hale
Pride ... is the direct appreciation of oneself.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
~ Emily Brontë
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
~ Margaret Fuller
Self-esteem isn't everything it's just that there's nothing without it.
~ Gloria Steinem
As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live.
~ Johann Von Goethe
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
~ Judith Martin
Humility is like underwear essential but indecent if it shows.
~ Helen Nielsen
The more important the title the more self-important the person the greater the amount of time spent on the Eastern shuttle the more suspicious the man and the less vitality in the organization.
~ Jane O'reilly
I'm glad I never feel important it does complicate life.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
More people are ruined by victory I imagine than by defeat.
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
~ George Sand
I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.
~ Gertrude Stein
Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
~ Anne-Sophie Swetchine
To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything.
~ Joan Didion
It is best to act with confidence no matter how little right you have to it.
~ Lillian Hellman
I've always seen myself as a winner even as a kid. If I hadn't I just might have gone down the drain a couple of times. I've got something inside of me peasantlike and stubborn and I'm in it 'til the end of the race.
~ Truman Capote
Success doesn't necessarily make you a happy person ... but without the confidence and security that comes from being totally happy I believe you cannot achieve your true potential and ultimate success.
~ Jinger Heath
Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.
~ Bertrand Russell
Tis the ignorant who boast.
~ Carmen Sylva
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are you aren't.
~ Margaret Thatcher
There's one blessing only the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
If arrogance is the heady wine of youth then humility must be its eternal hangover.
~ Helen Van Slyke
Conquer but never triumph.
~ Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Only so far as a man believes strongly mightily can he act cheerfully or do anything worth doing.
~ Frederick W. Robertson
Experience tells you what to do confidence allows you to do it.
~ Stan Smith
Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.
~ William J. H. Boetcker
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna or it can smooth the edges take away the insecurities let the nice things come out.
~ Barbara Walters
Humility is attentive patience.
~ Simone Weil
The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else.
~ Roy L. Smith
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
~ Mark Twain
As is our confidence so is our capacity.
~ William Hazlitt
Such to me is the new image of aging growth in self and service for all mankind.
~ Ethel Percy Andrus
The older I get the greater power I seem to have to help the world I am like a snowball-the further I am rolled the more I gain.
~ Susan B. Anthony
The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance.
~ Gladys Taber
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
~ Brigitte Bardot
Oh yes. I'd do it all again the spirit is willing yet I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
~ Elizabeth Arden
