Quotes About Confidence

Banish doubt. When doubt is banished, abundance flourishes and anything is possible.

You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

The antidote to fear is faith.

Release the need for the attention of others

Your worth is determined by you, and with no need for an explanation to anyone. And your worthiness, a given, has nothing to do with your behavior and feelings. You may not like your behavior in a given instance, but that has nothing to do with your self-worth. You can choose to be worthy to yourself forever, and then get on with the task of working on your self-images.

Self-worth cannot be verified by others. You are worthy because you say it is so. If you depend on others for your value it is other-worth.

What Is Your Self-Concept? Simply put, your concept of yourself is everything that you believe to be true. And everything that you believe to be true about yourself has landed you precisely where you live and breathe every day of your life.

What is clear to me today is that I must ignore the opinions and advice of others when they interfere with my own inner knowing. It is enough for me to know that I have a song, and by God, I intend to sing it.

I always entertain great hopes. —Robert Frost

when you learn to trust in yourself, you are actually trusting in the very wisdom that created you.

This is all wrapped up in a quote that I have cited many times, which was written back in the 19th century by one of the most influential spiritual masters ever to grace my path. His name is Henry David Thoreau, and his words have always rung sharply in my consciousness: "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Don't equate your self-worth with how well you do things in life. You aren't what you do. If you are what you do, then when you don't … you aren't.

Needing approval is tantamount to saying, Your view of me is more important than my own opinion of myself.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval." — Mark Twain

How can you fail at being yourself

does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so? He replied, 'All poets believe that it does. And in ages of imagination, this firm persuasion removed mountains; But many are not capable of a firm persuasion of anything.'" — from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake

The genius in you isn't seeking confirmation from others, but quiet space for its ideas to blossom.

Confidence comes from behavior, from choosing to take risks, from not worrying about failing, from not being so obsessed with whether somebody else is going to laugh at you, from not being afraid to fall down.

Mark Twain: "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

So raise your children to be self-sufficient, to make their own decisions as soon as they're able, and to feel pride in the decisions they do make.

The only limits you have are the limits you believe.

Self-worth comes from the belief that I have integrity, I am valuable, I am attractive, I am important. You don't have to go around saying it; instead, you have a quiet love affair with yourself.

some kind of kindness. If that doesn't work, I immediately go to another employee or to a supervisor, or I leave the situation altogether. I will not stand there and be physically, mentally, intellectually, or spiritually abused by anyone, ever, because I know that in allowing this to happen, I have given that person permission to treat me that way.

I came from greatness. I must be like what I came from. I will never abandon my belief in my greatness and the greatness of others.