Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.
There are more important things than outward appearance. No amount of makeup can cover an ugly personality.
My poetry is a declaration of war, not an exordium to defeat. It is not the defeated soldier’s drumbeat of despair, but the fighting warrior’s will to win. It is not the de- spirited voice of dejection but the stirring shout of victory.
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.
Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.
As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.
I feel the most confident when I’m comfortable in workout clothes with my hair up in a ponytail.
There’s only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.
The will to act is a renewable resource.
The man of genius in tune with nature will bend history to his will.
I can’t take my eyes off the beauty you radiate with that confident smile.
Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.
Confidence breeds beauty.
Makeup is self-confidence applied directly to the face.
