Self confidence Quotes

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

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

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

We are always the same age inside.

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.

When someone tells me "no," it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.

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.

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

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.

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

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit

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

If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.

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.

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)

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

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

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.

Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.

Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy

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.

Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will

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.

To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else!

A diamond doesn't start out polished and shining. It once was nothing special, but with enough pressure and time, becomes spectacular. I'm that diamond.

He was lovable the way a child is lovable, and he was capable of returning love with a childlike purity. If love is nevertheless excluded from his work, it's because he never quite felt that he deserved to receive it. He was a lifelong prisoner on the island of himself. What looked like gentle contours from a distance were in fact sheer cliffs. Sometimes only a little of him was crazy, sometimes nearly all of him, but, as an adult, he was never entirely not crazy. What he'd seen of his id while trying to escape his island prison by way of drugs and alcohol, only to find himself even more imprisoned by addiction, seems never to have ceased to be corrosive of his belief in his lovability. Even after he got clean, even decades after his late-adolescent suicide attempt, even after his slow and heroic construction of a life for himself, he felt undeserving. And this feeling was intertwined, ultimately to the point of indistinguishability, with the thought of suicide, which was the one sure way out of his imprisonment; surer than addiction, surer than fiction, and surer, finally, than love.

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.

The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts.

Piper had a new entry in her top-ten list of Times Piper Felt Useless.
Fighting Shrimpzilla with a dagger and a pretty voice? Not so effective.

And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.

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

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

People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.

Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe
they should be. They become very self-abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well.

My self-confidence can be measured out in teaspoons mixed into my poetry, and it still always tastes funny in my mouth.

At every given moment we are absolutely perfect for what is required for our journey.

If my mind can conceive it,
My heart can believe it,
I know I can achieve it!

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

How we love others is affected by how we love ourselves, and for the first time in a long time, I was whole.

Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine.

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

Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle.