Quotes about self-assurance

If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, then you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong.

But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope.

Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

Confidence is always the best accessory. Own the moment. Own your space.

It's okay to look different, Lilith. Beauty is only a matter of opinion. If you believe you are beautiful, then that's all that matters. These are really tough years you're approaching now. Your decisions now as a teenager can change your entire life. Just make sure you talk to me or comeone if you're ever feeling like life is too much to handle. And never let anyone convince you that you're not worthy, only to take advantage of you.

It's okay to look different, Lilith. Beauty is only a matter of opinion. If you believe you are beautiful, then that's all that matters. These are really tough years you're approaching now. Your decisions now as a teenager can change your entire life. Just make sure you talk to me or someone if you're ever feeling like life is too much to handle. And never let anyone convince you that you're not worthy, only to take advantage of you.

The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance of their enemies, but the complacency of their friends, are precious catalysts for change.

One of my rules is never to look sideways at what other people are doing but instead, do what I feel is right.

She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.

A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.

We reach for the same brand not because we trust its quality but because we want to reassure ourselves that we made a smart choice the last time we bought it.

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

Commandment #1: Believe in yourself. Commandment #2: Get over yourself.

Always in life an idea starts small, it is only a sapling idea, but the vines will come and they will try to choke your idea so it cannot grow and it will die and you will never know you had a big idea, an idea so big it could have grown thirty meters through the dark canopy of leaves and touched the face of the sky.' He looked at me and continued. 'The vines are people who are afraid of originality, of new thinking. Most people you encounter will be vines; when you are a young plant they are ve

Why yes, I can,' said Midas Mulligan, when he was asked whether he could name a person more evil than the man with a heart closed to pity. 'The man who uses another's pity for him as a weapon.

Zaphod marched quickly down the passageway, nervous as hell, but trying to hide it by striding purposefully.

I swear by the self-assurance with which elderly men sitting in public tilt sideways to allow the gas to escape loudly.

...I don't want security - to be self-assured - I want to risk my heart in making your portrait and be paid the wages of your devotion...

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.

In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

Style comes from knowing who you are and who you want to be in the world; it does not come from wanting to be somebody else, or wanting to be thinner, shorter, taller, prettier.

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

Sometimes you just know... And then it doesn't even seem scary. Just certain and joyful. Like a deep stream, flowing steady and strong, jumping and splashing and churning as it passes around and over the land in which it is grounded. And for this knowing, and flowing, I am grateful.

Projecting an air of self-assurance will take you a long way.

If you have no competition there's no need to debate.

The only way you will ever be free is when you decide you have had enough of living up to the standards other people force upon you through shame. Never wear their chains of judgment when they can’t break free of their own.

Your self-assurance scares me.’'That’s only because you don’t have any.

And here I was, left with only myself to deal with. It was entirely up to me.

Doubt quit stopping by when I started staying out late, dancing in a flood of self assurance discovered when holding your hand.