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Confidence is knowing that you can walk into any situation with the skills,
strengths, and abilities you need.

—Marci G. Fox, psychologist

Every person is special! I sincerely believe this. Each of us wants to feel good
about himself or herself, but to me it is just as important to make others feel the
same way. Whenever I meet someone, I try to imagine him wearing an invisible
sign that says: Make Me Feel Important! I respond to this sign immediately, and
it works wonders.

—Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other
people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

—Dale Carnegie, writer, lecturer, and developer of self-improvement courses (from his book How
to Win Friends and Influence People, 1936)

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the
result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful;
perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is
better than no action at all.

—Norman Vincent Peale, minister, author, and a pioneer of “positive thinking”