Quotes about self-confidence

Wayne Gerard Trotman - Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest

Modesty isn’t always a virtue it can be a hindrance a careful measure of personal pride builds confidence and ensures success.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Mediation on word of God leads to renewal of mind rekindle of spirit and revival of soul.

Roopleen -

Learning is a matter of gathering knowledge wisdom is applying that knowledge.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

If we being to ready the Bible daily we will awake the divinity of our souls.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

Look well into thyself there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.

Deborah Day - BE HAPPY NOW!

Be your authentic self! Who you truly are not who you learned to be.

Andre Maurois -

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

What in the world would ever lead to me believe that life is a series of opportunities that are readily available to everyone else but me? What really leads me to believe such an atrocious lie is that I don’t believe in myself sufficiently to engage those opportunities in the first place.

Sophocles - Oedipus Rex

Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.

William Shakespeare - Othello

Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.

Fennel Hudson - A Writer's Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 3

Walk free from the long shadows cast by small people.

Toni Sorenson - The Great Brain Cleanse

Until you believe you can do it, it's going to be difficult to convince anyone else you can do it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

Too often we make it more about what stands before us, and we miss all that stands within us.

Sunday Adelaja -

The feelings of guilt takes away self-confidence, reduces self-esteem welcomes fear, confusion, disappointment, depression etc.

Charlotte Beers - and Joy at Work

Being in charge of your work life doesn't mean you always move with assurance and sublime self-confidence; it means you keep moving, continuing on your own path, even when you feel shaky and uncertain.

Latika Teotia -

If you are convinced that the life style you are leading is right, if you are not coming in the way of others and not destabilizing or spoiling the peace of your neighborhood or the society then you don’t have to feel guilty. If some people criticize you for your living- style , don’t bother, remember you don’t have to respond to everyone and everything that others say, don’t feel guilty for ignoring them either.

Tara Brach - Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us, and regarding what we see with an open, kind and loving heart, is what I call Radical Acceptance. If we are holding back from any part of our experience, if our heart shuts out any part of who we are and what we feel, we are fueling the fears and feelings of separation that sustain the trance of unworthiness. Radical Acceptance directly dismantles the very foundations of this trance.

Abiola Abrams - The Sacred Bombshell Handbook of Self-Love

You are magnificent beyond measure, perfect in your imperfections, and wonderfully made.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Every morning, look in the mirror. You are beautiful and wonderful.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Face fears with faith.

Avisheena -

I might be a witness to those who didn't confident in themselves, but I will not be like them.

kurbhatt -

be determined with patience that's it.. game is yours..

Kody Keplinger - The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend

I was the Duff. And that was a good thing. Because anyone who didn't feel like the Duff must not have friends. Every girl feels unattractive sometimes. Why had it taken me so long to figure that out? Why had I been stressing over that dumb word for so long when it was so simple? I should be proud to be the Duff. Proud to have great friends who, in their minds, were my Duffs.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Do not prove but be yourself.

Toni Sorenson - The Great Brain Cleanse

Unhappiness comes when we feel helpless. Hope comes the minute we decide we are not.

George Packer -

The attacks of 9/11 were the biggest surprise in American history, and for the past ten years we haven't stopped being surprised. The war on terror has had no discernible trajectory, and, unlike other military conflicts, it's almost impossible to define victory. You can't document the war's progress on a world map or chart it on a historical timetable in a way that makes any sense. A country used to a feeling of being in command and control has been whipsawed into a state of perpetual reaction,

Lailah Gifty Akita -

With the greatest force within, you can go farther.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Are you living your dream or someone’s dream?

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Don’t give up on yourself, your dreams and your family.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Slaying Dragons

You never step backwards when you’re sure of where you’re going.

Roopleen -

To turn your dreams into reality, all your resources, efforts and concentration should be aligned in the same direction.

Kamal Ravikant - Live Your Truth

Ask yourself: what is it, that if I believed it down to my core, would change everything?

C. JoyBell C. -

The problem when you are a strong, capable, self-confident person, is that more often than not, people think that you don't really need things like comfort, reassurance, loyalty and guidance. People are more likely to look at you and say, "She doesn't need this", "She doesn't need that", "She's already all of this and all of that". But then the truth is that most probably, you are a strong, capable, self-confident person because you built yourself brick-by-brick into that person; because you HAD

Katherine Mansfield - Journal of Katherine Mansfield

Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."(Journal entry, 14 October 1922)

Roman Payne -

Do we take less pride in the possession of our home because its walls were built by some unknown carpenter, its tapestries woven by some unknown weaver on a far Oriental shore, in some antique time? No. We show our home to our friends with the pride as if it were our home, which it is. Why then should we take less pride when reading a book written by some long-dead author? Is it not our book just as much, or even more so, than theirs? So the landowner says, ‘Look at my beautiful home! Isn’t it f

M.H. Rakib - The Cavalier

Be in limits, life will never limit you.

Mishi McCoy -

You can choose to be pitiful or you can choose to be powerful, but you cannot at the same time, be both.

Mo Stegall -

IF YOU CHOKE YOUR POTENTIAL BEFORE IT HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME A POSSIBILITY YOU WILL NEVER REACH YOUR DESTINY

Efrat Cybulkiewicz -

Feeding the ego is starving the wisdom, the choice is yours.

Efrat Cybulkiewicz -

Hijo de tigre, no siempre sale pintado. Siempre ahi esa excepción.

Cormac McCarthy -

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this., New York Times, April 19, 1992]

Abhijit Naskar -

Start small and keep going.

Theodore Roosevelt -

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah -

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.

Norman Vincent Peale -

What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.

Tina Fey - Bossypants

Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson -

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Edgar Allan Poe - Marginalia

I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.

bell hooks -

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

David Nicholls - One Day

You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: First Part

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

When the world does its level best to devalue me in ways that are nothing short of brutal, all it does is evidence my value. For why would it expend such massive amounts of energy attempting to destroy something that’s not there?

Hannah Q. Mensah -

Someone smells good, it automatically makes them more attractive.

Paresh Shah -

We are meant to do the work of angels for we are often disguised from ourSelves.

David Nicholls - One Day

Self-pitying, self-righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she always needed the most.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Begin to trust thyself.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Go live your dreams. It is your only daring adventure.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe - Mirror

Just being yourself is the easiest thing you can do. It doesn't take much effort.

Chinonye J. Chidolue -

Perfection is inexistent. It is the short-lived joy of muddling in the dips of a superficial life in a bid to bury who we really are.

Bangambiki Habyarimana - The Great Pearl of Wisdom

You are received the way you present yourself

Ramana Pemmaraju -

You have treasured your MIND more than your 'SELF' and that's the primary source of unhappiness!

Efrat Cybulkiewicz -

As I create I become.

Angelos Michalopoulos - The man who has only one truth in him

Living one floor below Paradise.

Efrat Cybulkiewicz -

I do not care if nobody resembles me.

Efrat Cybulkiewicz -

Amazing how things so simple, so often evade us... Remember there's a planet full of people out there, don't mourn over the past. Chin up, rope in those that can pull you up, and cut loose the ones just beneath you, everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't, don't get stuck on one lesson.

EfratCybulkiewicz -

As in Plato’s myth of the cave, some of us don't stay long enough in one single place, relationship, journey or country but that does not mean we evade reality or makes us unstable. It simply means, we are not very keen to entertain ourselves, for long periods of time, with the same old same old reflections or shadows on the wall, when aware of the existence of the sun; the price for enlightenment, solitude

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe - The Reason

Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but it doesn't mean that they are right and you should listen to them.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe - The Reason

Do not blindly accept anyone's definition of your life and define it yourself.

Jenny Lawson -

I sometimes get hassled for using the term "fat" but I also use the term "crazy" to describe myself and I'm fine with that because I'm taking those words back. I'm also taking "sexy" back because, frankly, Justin Timberlake has had it too long and he doesn't even need it.

Auliq Ice -

The sense of your own experience will grow along with your confidence.

Vironika Tugaleva -

Can you do something for me? Can you take one moment, right now, and acknowledge how far you've come? Can you appreciate, completely, the lessons that all of your mistakes have already brought you and the wisdom you've collected from all of the pain that seemed so senseless at the time? Can you celebrate your journey and forget, just for a second, about the ever-changing destination?Because the truth is that there will never be a "perfect" time to appreciate yourself. There will not be a magical

Rossana Condoleo - Happy Divorce: How to turn your divorce into the most brilliant and rewarding opportunity of your life!

When we do something we like, we are not only happy. We are also very strong!

Nina Guilbeau -

Learn to be brave and adventurous because you’ll never discover your place in the world, if you’re too afraid to leave your own backyard.

Kathryn Orford -

Sometimes our Biggest Nightmare turns out to be our Biggest Gift. And it all comes down to our attitude. Life will throw us curve balls and disappointments, even heartbreak. But ultimately we can choose if we're going to be Bitter or Better for the experience.

Gina Lake - What about Now?: Reminders for Being in the Moment

Try giving up all the thoughts that make you feel bad, or even just some of them, and see how doing that changes your life. You don't need negative thoughts. All they have ever given you was a false self that suffers. They are all lies.

Lou Ferrigno -

If I hadn't lost my hearing, I wouldn't be where I am now. It forced me to maximize my own potential. I have to be better than the average person to succeed.

Sylvia Plath - The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

Eileen Anglin -

Dare to be different. Find the courage to accept that you may always fit in, and the peace within to stop looking for the approval of others. Just be the amazing being that you are. People who shine the light of who they truly are, are inspiring to others.

Kilroy J. Oldster - Dead Toad Scrolls

A person devolves his or her hardiness from the ark-like powers of love to create, protect, and destroy. When we are in love, we discover what we long to become, we also discover what we lack. When we are in love, we are empowered to seek out our destiny. When we lose at love, our confidence is devastated. In the wake of a breakup with a lover, we languish in solitude. Caught in the riptide of incompleteness, we suffer terribly.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

You are your own travel light.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Be yourself. Love yourself. This is your sacred self.

Abhijit Naskar -

Nobody wants great things for you. They all want you to be something they deem important for them.

Bryce Courtenay -

Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.

Bette Davis -

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

Jalaluddin Rumi - The Essential Rumi

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

I am bold as a lion.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Courage is an act of faith.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

The greatest conquest is the courage to be yourself.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Confident in spirit, courageous in soul.

Auliq Ice -

Courage injures the strong ones who have no wisdom, but it motivates the brave ones, to always win.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

I know what I want. I will chase to it.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

I live life with a daring curiosity.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Live your greatest dreams.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

I will pursue my dreams with all my strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Be confident, be bold! These are your life greatest strength for success.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

You must have courage and confidence to pursue the visions.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Trust in God gives self-power.

Auliq Ice -

Whenever it comes to doing anything. Remember the part about having confidence.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

I have no control over time. I can only live in the time.