If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!" (William Strunk) ... Why compound ignorance with inaudibility?

You’ve gotta love yourself enough to look INSIDE you & not BESIDE you for your joy, confidence, & self worth.

How you react doesn’t tell a person about your character, as much as it does your fear or God's fire. Which is it?

Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness or the realization of our duty and privilege as God s children

When you only know your faults and failures, you allow yourself and others to downgrade your dreams and belittle your wants.

Emperors are not made from cowards; they are made from those who take great risk where there stands to be even greater gain.

I don’t believe that," I said, and he raised his brow beneath his shaggy hair. "I never asked you to.” (Jessica)

You can't make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence.

The only way we succeed as a group is not simply following directions, but in keeping each other accountable for our actions.

It's all about educating people to value you as much a they value themselves. If you respect your time, others will too.

But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless.

Concentrate more on your achievements than your failures. Learn to take the failures as opportunities to rectify your errors.

You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do but you don't have to be arrogant about it.

Well, laddie, if you've let an old buzzard like me hurt you confidence, you couldn't have had much in the first place.

Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.