Quotes tagged as "self-confidence" Showing 1-30 of 1,661
“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia
tags: faith, fool, humor, self-confidence, self-irony
“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi
“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
tags: barrie, belief, fantasy, flying, imagination, kensington-gardens, london, magic, neverland, park, peter-pan, scotland, self-confidence
“When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.”
― Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart
“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.”
― Lao Tzu
“When someone tells me "no," it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.”
― Karen E. Quinones Miller
“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part
tags: conduct-of-life, life, self-confidence, self-trust
“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”
― Coco Chanel, Believing in Ourselves: The Wisdom of Women
tags: attitudes, belief, confidence, failure, self-confidence, success
“If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.”
― John Lennon
tags: art, beatles, confidence, ego, music, self-confidence
“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”
― David Nicholls, One Day
tags: gifts, love, self-confidence
“I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.”
― Muhammad Ali Jinnah
“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit”
― E.E. Cummings
“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.”
― Bell Hooks
“As long as you look for someone else to validate who you are by seeking their approval, you are setting yourself up for disaster. You have to be whole and complete in yourself. No one can give you that. You have to know who you are - what others say is irrelevant.”
― Nic Sheff
tags: ataraxy, self-confidence, self-esteem, self-worth
“Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“I laugh at myself.
I don't take myself completely seriously.
I think that's another quality that people have to hold on to... you have to laugh, especially at yourself.”
― Madonna
tags: laugh, self-acceptance, self-confidence
“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
― Ralph Waldo Emmerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
tags: self-confidence, self-reliance, self-trust, trust
“Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.”
― Dorothy M. Neddermeyer
tags: anxiety, depressed, depression, esteem, hypnosis, panic, regression, self-confidence
“Be an Encourager: When you encourage others, you boost their self-esteem, enhance their self-confidence, make them work harder, lift their spirits and make them successful in their endeavors. Encouragement goes straight to the heart and is always available. Be an encourager. Always.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
tags: encourage, encouragement, heart, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, self-confidence, self-esteem, success
“Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.”
― Dr Roopleen, Words to inspire the winner in YOU
tags: attitude, authors, books, coaching, competition, connect, counseling, courage, dare, daring, determination, dreams, failure, faith, famous, goals, hope, idea, inspiration, inspire, judge, leadership, life, love, motivation, motivator, never-give-up, passion, patience, peace, positive-thinking, promo, publishing, quotes, self-confidence, self-esteem, speaking, success, successful, triumph, trust, victory, willpower, wisdom, words, world, you-can-do-it
“Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants
tags: change, inspirational, self-confidence, self-esteem, trying
“A competitive and insecure woman will tell you that “true love” is never giving up on someone you're in love with. A confident and spiritual woman knows that “moving on” doesn’t mean you never loved someone. She realizes that letting go is what God needs her to do because both your happiness and hers requires taking different journeys for spiritual growth. Letting go is sometimes the hardest thing, but it is the most “real love” you will ever experience.”
― Shannon L. Alder
tags: betrayal, divorcing, ending-it, faith, letting-go, love, moving-on, real-love, sacrifices, see, self-confidence, self-worth, true-love
“To overcome fear is the quickest way to gain your self-confidence.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
tags: fear, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, self-confidence
“I'm not insecure. I've been through way too much f**king sh*t to be insecure. I've got huge balls. But I've been humbled. That makes you grateful for every day you have.”
― Drew Barrymore
tags: insecurity, self-confidence
“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.”
― Kody Keplinger, The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend
tags: confidence, friends, friendship, self-confidence, yourself, youth
“No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy”
― paris hilton
“We can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn.”
― Frank Herbert
tags: learning, self-confidence
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