It was the most remarkable spectacle this or any other country has ever beheld." Believe in yourself; you may succeed when others do not believe in you, but never when you do not believe in yourself.
"Ah! John Hunter, still hard at work!" exclaimed a physician on finding the old anatomist at the dissecting table.

"Yes, doctor, and you'll find it difficult to meet with another John Hunter when I am gone." "Heaven takes a hundred years to form a great genius for the regeneration of an empire and afterward rests a hundred years," said Kaunitz, who had administered the affairs of his country with great success for half a century.

"This makes me tremble for the Austrian monarchy after my death." "Isn't it beautiful that I can sing so ?" asked Jenny Lind, naively, of a friend.
"My Lord," said William Pitt in 1757 to the Duke of Devonshire, "I am sure that I can save this country and that nobody else can." He did save it.
What seems to us disagreeable egotism in others is often but a strong expression of confidence in their ability to attain.

Great men have usually had great confidence in themselves.

Wordsworth felt sure of his place in history and never hesitated to say so.