Quotes About Confidence

Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is in being who they are, not in being better than someone else.

The higher our self-esteem, the stronger the drive to express ourselves, reflecting the sense of richness within.

Persons of low self-esteem tend to discount the productions of their mind. It is not that they never get worthwhile ideas. But they do not value them, do not treat them as potentially important, often do not even remember them very long—rarely follow through with them. In effect, their attitude is, "If the idea is mine, how good can it be?

A clinging to the past in the face of new and changing circumstances is itself a product of insecurity, a lack of self-trust. Rigidity is what animals sometimes manifest when they are frightened: they freeze.

Flexibility, in contrast, is the natural consequence of self-esteem. A mind that trusts itself is light on its feet, unemcumbered by irrelevant attachments, able to respond quickly to novelty because it is open to seeing.

Some people stand and move as if they have no right to the space they occupy.

Able to manage change. Self-esteem does not find change frightening, for the reasons stated in the preceding paragraph. Self-esteem flows with reality; self-doubt fights it. Self-esteem speeds up reaction time; self-doubt retards it.

research discloses that high self-esteem is one of the best predictors of personal happiness

The answer to this last is simple: In supporting and nurturing the self-esteem of our children, we support and nurture our own.

Empathy and compassion, no less than benevolence and cooperativeness, are far more likely to be found among persons of high self-esteem than among low;

By this I mean that behaviors that generate good self-esteem are also expressions of good self-esteem.

Let me say further that one of the characteristics of persons with healthy self-esteem is that they tend to assess their abilities and accomplishments realistically, neither denying nor exaggerating them.

Living consciously is both a cause and an effect of self-efficacy and self-respect.

The more I live consciously, the more I trust my mind and respect my worth; and if I trust my mind and respect my worth, it feels natural to live consciously.

That is true. The virtues that self-esteem asks of us are also ones that life asks of us.

It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior.

Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.

When we do not express ourselves, do not assert our being, do not stand up for our values in contexts where it is appropriate to do so, we inflict wounds on our sense of self. The world does not do it to us, we do it to ourselves.

You can no more have too much self-esteem than you can have too much health.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.

A woman who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people's evaluations. But no one can adapt perfectly to public opinion. And herein lies the source of their destruction.

Why did anyone make a deal with the devil? Desperation, pursuit of power and wealth … Or perhaps a mistaken confidence in one's ability to avoid pitfalls, to take something worthwhile from that deal and not be, as some would have it, "royally screwed.

It does, Tennyson, because there's a fine line between confidence and arrogance. There's a fine line between being assertive and being a bully. And you're on the wrong side of both lines.

It's a powerful feeling to know you make others feel safe