Quotes About Confidence

Embrace who you are. You have been given every tool, every talent, and every trait you need to realize your destiny. You can't be everything to everyone. All you can be is YOU. And that is enough. Take criticism from the crowd as a compliment. If you were bored, or plain, or average, the critics would be silent.

Don't let other people's opinions of you, what you say and what you do influence who you are.

Don't ever let a soul in the world tell you, you can't be exactly who you are.

People will try to knock you down, you might feel worthless, useless, or stupid, but as long as you have yourself and remember who you are you will always be OK.

When you spend too much time concentrating on everyone else's perception of you, or who everyone else wants you to be, you eventually forget who you really are. So don't fear the judgments of others; you know in your heart who you are and whats true to you.

The gap between what we are, and what we want to be, can be filled by the belief what we can do.

jealousy belonging to that family of unhealthy doubts far more easily removed by the vigor of an affirmation than by its plausibility.

And by a strange coincidence, that reasoned fear of danger was born at the very moment when the idea of death had become indifferent to me. The fear of no longer existing had formerly horrified me at each new love I experienced—for Gilberte, for Albertine—because I could not bear the thought that one day the being who loved them might not be there; it was a sort of death. But the very recurrence of this fear led to its changing into calm confidence.

Value yourself. Without internal resources, you have nothing.

my friends would say to me, You, insecure, when you're that beautiful? I would reply, The one has nothing to do with the other.

Las mujeres de mi especie saben entornar los ojos y les quedó el hábito ancestral de mirar por sobre el hombro. Es que una rara y contradictoria seguridad va plasmada a esos ojos y eso es lo único que hace tolerable la inseguridad cósmica que da el existir.

You don't lack motivation; you lack confidence in success—and that drives your motivation elsewhere, to avoid the feeling or the fear.

You can change your beliefs so they empower dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Love yourself. Respect yourself. Never sell yourself short. Believe in yourself regardless of what people think. You can accomplish anything, absolutely anything, if you set your mind to it.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life

If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

With confidence, you have won before you have started.

The best pilots usually have the most unflattering nicknames. The pilots I know say they don't generally have much confidence in anyone with a call sign like Maverick or Viper. If you meet one named Outhouse or Dumpster Diver, however, it's a safe bet he's good to go.

A big, robust guy with blond hair and a relatively insolent grin, Shane was supersmart. I never had to tell him anything. He knew what to do at all times.

Every Navy SEAL is supremely confident, because we're indoctrinated with a belief in victory at all costs; a conviction that no earthly force can withstand our thunderous assault on the battlefield. We're invincible, right? Unstoppable. That's what I believed to the depths of my spirit on the day they pinned the Trident on my chest. I still believe it. And I always will.

Food's my only bag. It's my gig, my art, my life. Always has been, always will be. I'm always battling myself – the part of me that says I can and the part of me that says I can't. My greatest gift has been that the part of me that says "I can't" is always, always just a little bit louder.

A guy like Franz could talk smack all day about my Afro, my lack of brains, my mother, her alleged lack of virtue.