SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS AND TIMIDITY FOES TO SUCCESS Timid, shy people are morbidly self-conscious; they think too much about themselves.

Their thoughts are always turned inward; they are always analyzing, dissecting themselves, wondering how they appear and what people think of them.

If these people could only forget themselves and think of others, they would be surprised to see what freedom, ease, and grace they would gain; what success in life they would achieve.
Timidity, shyness, and self-consciousness belong to the same family.
We usually find all where we find any one of these qualities, and they are all enemies of peace of mind, happiness, and achievement.

No one has ever done a great thing while his mind was centered upon himself.
We must lose ourselves before we can find ourselves.

Self analysis is valuable only to learn our strength; fatal, if we dwell upon our weaknesses.
Thousands of young people are held back from undertaking what they long to do, and are kept from trying to make real their great life-dreams, because they are afraid to jostle with the world.