“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”

“I have great faith in fools — self-confidence my friends will call it.”

“I am driven to observe of the ultra-Darwinists the following features as symptomatic. First, to my eyes, is their almost unbelievable self-assurance, their breezy self-confidence.”

“To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.”

“The great requisite … for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.”

“To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.”

“He was ever first to undertake hardship.”
Primus sumpsisse laborem.

“Because life is short and my wit is afraid of the high undertaking, in neither do I have much confidence.”

“We don’t need self-confidence we need God-confidence”

“Deficient self-confidence and self respect, develops low self esteem, and induces the need to find faults in others; wisdom and quality self-confidence, engenders one’s ability to find excellence in the traits of others.”