Quotes About Confidence

Always trust yourself. If it turns out you are wrong, then that natural course of your inner life will lead you to other insights.

find enough patience in yourself to endure, and enough simplicity to believe; that you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult, and in particular your solitude. And for the rest, let life happen to you. Believe me: life is right, every time.

To be an artist means: not to reckon and count; to ripen like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without fear lest no Summer might come after. It does come. But it comes only to the patient ones, who are there as if eternity lay in front of them, so unconcernedly still and far. I am learning it daily, learning it through pains to which I am grateful: patience is all!

And if what is close is far, then the space around you is wide indeed and already among the stars; take pleasure in your growth, in which no one can accompany you, and be kind-hearted towards those you leave behind, and be assured and gentle with them and do not plague them with your doubts or frighten them with your confidence or your joyfulness, which they cannot understand.

I was no longer afraid. Not of important men, not of trustees and such; for knowing now that there was nothing which I could expect from them, there was no reason to be afraid.

To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

I yam what I yam!

they could talk and agree with themselves, the world was nailed down, and they loved it. They received a feeling of security.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires....courage.

Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.

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

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.

Self trust is the essence of heroism.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Believe in yourself our strength grows out of our weakness

Practice radical humility. He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated...

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

Insist upon yourself. Be original.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.