Perhaps middle age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego. (Quote by - Anne Morrow Lindbergh)

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out. (Quote by - Barbara Walters)

I felt a comedy ego beginning to grow, which gave me the courage to begin tentatively looking into myself for material. (Quote by - Joan Rivers)

People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus. (Quote by - Edna Ferber)

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity. (Quote by - Anne-Sophie Swetchine)

A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

I've never had a humble opinion in my life. If you're going to have one, why bother to be humble about it? (Quote by - Joan Baez)

Confidence is courage at ease. (Quote by - Daniel Maher)

Maturity is coming to terms with that other part of yourself. (Quote by - Dr. Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse)

Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized. (Quote by - Frances Ridley Havergal)

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. (Quote by - Margaret Fuller)

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. (Quote by - Lao Tzu)

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame. (Quote by - Thomas Kempis)

Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. (Quote by - Margaret Atwood)

What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body. (Quote by - Raquel Welch)

Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. (Quote by - Muriel Spark)

Confidence ... is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life. (Quote by - John Dewey)

My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces. (Quote by - Wilma Rudolph)

I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate. (Quote by - Nancy Astor)

Self-trust is the first secret of success. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women? (Quote by - Harriet Beecher Stowe)

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young. (Quote by - Luella F. Phean)

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies. (Quote by - William Wrigley)

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. (Quote by - Lazarus Long)