Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people

The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

Know your power.

No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.

It doesn't matter how much polite self-deprecating fluff you have on the outside if you don't have a steely something in the middle that says, 'You know what, I'm actually really, really good at this, and this is what I can do, and I'm going to do it.'

I was not going to let people tell me what I'm capable of.

I wish for a world that gets that your 'I Can' is exponentially more important than your IQ.

I know who I am, and I know what my future holds.

I've never felt like I was living in anyone's shadow. My life was what it was.

I will always back myself to achieve what I can achieve. It is all down to me.

It doesn't matter how tall you are. You have to carve out space and hold your ground.

I can be a better me than anyone can.

I have no regrets. I find everything happens for a reason and the reason why maybe this is happening is I won't take BS from anyone. And I think it's making me stand out on my own and be very independent and fight for what I believe in.

Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.

Every achiever that I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me'.

Acting as if you were what you want to become and know you can become is the way to remove self-doubt and enter your real-magic kingdom.

Don't worry. Don't apologize. Don't cower behind the defeated security of there is no 'room for someone like me'. There isn't room for any one of us. It's up to you to make a place for yourself in the world. So get to work.

No one will believe in you until you believe in you.

I've put up with too much, too long, and now I'm just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who I am finally to deserve anything less.

I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows. Henceforth be mine a life of action and reality! I will work in my own sphere, nor wish it other than it is. This alone is health and happiness.

Feel empowered. And if you start to do it, if you start to feel your voice heard, you will never go back.

It made me strong.I took a step back, near my whole self in the mirror.I pushed back my shoulders and raised my chin, my back straight as an arrow.

Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.

I'll succeed,' Hazel promised. 'And Hecate? I'm not choosing one of your paths. I'm making my own.