Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

Our distrust is very expensive.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...