The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.
~ Nikki Giovanni
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
~ Vince Lombardi
Glamour is assurance. It is a kind of knowing that you are all right in every way mentally and physically and in appearance and that whatever the occasion or the situation you are equal to it.
~ Marlene Dietrich
Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
~ Helen Keller
To be confident is to act in faith.
~ Bernard Bynion
Skill and confidence are an uncon-quered army.
~ George Herbert
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
~ Indira Gandhi
When the fight begins within himself a man's worth something.
~ Robert Browning
To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.
~ Gertrude Atherton
Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.
~ Marie Chapian
You must have discipline to have fun.
~ Julia Child
Self-command is the main elegance.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A little kingdom I possess Where thoughts and feelings dwell And very hard the task I find Of governing it well.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Everybody's business is nobody's business and nobody's business is my business.
~ Clara Barton
I listen and give input only if somebody asks.
~ Barbara Bush
The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.
~ Plautus
Temptations come as a general rule when they are sought.
~ Margaret Oliphant
A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
~ Ida Tarbell
There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.
~ Louis Xiv
Too often in ironing out trouble someone gets scorched.
~ Marcelene Cox
When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security.
~ Myrtle Reed
Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you never speak of them and don't ask about them.
~ Teresa Of Ávila
I will write of him who fights and vanquishes his sins who struggles on through weary years against himself ... and wins.
~ Caroline Begelow Lerow
What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.
~ H. P. Liddon
Man who man would be must rule the empire of himself.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls.
~ Bible
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
~ Erma Bombeck
If you can't write your message in a sentence you can't say it in an hour.
~ Dianna Booher
Sweet words are like honey a little may refresh but too much gluts the stomach.
~ Anne Bradstreet
I am indeed a king because I know how to rule myself.
~ Pietro Aretino
He who conquers others is strong he who conquers himself is mighty.
~ Lao Tzu
A woman that's too soft and sweet is like tapioca pudding-fine for them as likes it.
~ Osa Johnson
A little of what you fancy does you good.
~ Marie Lloyd
Gammy used to say Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things.
~ Betty Macdonald
Who is apt on occasion to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument.
~ Harriet Martineau
The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.
~ L. M. Montgomery
Superior people never make long visits.
~ Marianne Moore
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
~ Ouida
Never eat more than you can lift.
~ Miss Piggy
