Confidence (Boldness)
• To do everything one is asked to do, one must overestimate one’s self. — Goethe
• Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it. — Rainer Maria Rilke
• If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it: Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. H W Longfellow
• The Gods favor the bold. — Ovid
• Our doubts are traitors / And make us lose the good we oft might win / By fearing to attempt. — Shakespeare
• With doubt, the sun and the moon would go out. — Blake
• Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now. — Goethe
• If love be timid, it is not true. — Spanish Proverb
• Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one’s horse as he is leaping. — J.C. Hare
• An artist is primarily one who has faith in himself. — Arthur Miller, writer
• Unless you think you can do better than Tolstoy, we don’t need you. — James Michener, writer
• Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right. — Henry Ford
• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. — Thoreau
• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours… — Thoreau