Quotes About Self-confidence

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.

Ambition is the mainspring of life, but we must keep it wound up! Self-confidence is the balance wheel which keeps ambition moving at an even momentum. Enthusiasm is the oil with which we keep the human machine greased and in smooth running order. The well-organized, capable, and productive man is AMBITIOUS, ENTHUSIASTIC, and possesses plenty of SELF-CONFIDENCE. Without these, success is uncertain, if not impossible.

Just because it's your brain does not mean it's on your side.

It's just as easy to believe we're awesome as it is to believe we're giant sucking things.

Going out into the world and trying, yet still deep-down believing that you're ruled by your past circumstances, is like forgiving someone but still hoping they sit in something wet.

Vertrauen Sie darauf, dass Sie wissen, was das Beste für Sie ist.

You must believe that everything you desire really is available to you and that you possess all the tools, power, and permission to manifest it. Here's how having faith helps you get rich.

And my dad drilled it in my head, you know, 'If you want it bad enough, and you're willing to make the sacrifices, you can do it. But first you have to believe in yourself.

Shoulders back, titties first!

I'm not the glass ballerina," I said firmly. "I'm not going to shatter.

She'd often observed that people generally lived up to whatever expectations they had of themselves. Building someone's self-confidence did a lot more good in getting the best results out of people than making them feel as if they couldn't do anything right.

And then there is Darcy. She is a woman who believes that things should fall into her lap, and, consequently, they do. They always have. She wins because she expects to win. I do not expect what I want, so I dont. And I dont even try.

I needed to have a thick skin.

The self-confidence of even the consistently successful is never absolute. They are never sure that they know all the ingredients which go into the making of their success. The

But the great compensation for being fifty in a culture that is not kind to older women is that you care less about criticism and you are less afraid of confrontation. In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.

When we think of nonverbals, we think of how we judge others. … We tend to forget, though, the other audience that's influenced by our nonverbals: ourselves.

My mom taught me to go after my dreams. I have this faith in myself that I must have gotten from her.

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

I had been a Maoist, and then when the Gang of Four was overthrown, I was completely distraught. I was bedridden for three weeks; it was a very painful experience for me. Not only because I had been wrong, but because I felt really embarrassed that I had been lecturing and pontificating with such self-confidence.

I don't weigh myself - it's all about how I feel in my clothes.

I think I intimidate hecklers because I weigh more than most of them.

I don't mind being the one people talk about. It doesn't weigh on me.

I don't get hung up on weight.

And whatever my weight, I've always been skinny from the waist up.