Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. – Norman Vincent Peale

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. – Michel de Montaigne

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate. – Henry David Thoreau

The universe knows the perfect timing for all those things you want and will find, through the crack of least resistance, the best way to deliver it to you. – Abraham–Hicks