Quotes About Self-confidence

Taking inventory of mental assets and liabilities, you will discover that your greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence. This handicap can be surmounted, and timidity translated into courage, through the aid of the principle of auto-suggestion. The application of this principle may be made through a simple arrangement of positive thought impulses stated in writing, memorized, and repeated, until they become a part of the working equipment of the subconscious faculty of your mind.

Brace up. Stand erect. Strengthen your backbone and, with it, your jaw bone. Say "I will" instead of "I wish." The world bestows her prizes on men with backbone and the blanks on those who use their wishbone.

The object is to want money, and to become so determined to have it that you convince yourself you will have it.

Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man, But soon or late the man who wins Is the man who thinks he can!

for no one who lacks faith in himself is really educated in the proper sense of the term.

This is because "indecision crystallizes into DOUBT" and "the two blend and become FEAR!"58 Decisiveness, in contrast, boosts our self-confidence and elevates our mind to a higher plane of functioning, whereby our thoughts are more apt to attract inspiration and opportunity.

will devote ten minutes daily to demanding of myself the development of SELF-CONFIDENCE.

My reaction was the reverse. I laughed heartily, for I knew that my endeavor to plant in the child's mind an attitude of faith in himself had been successful.

You will never have a definite purpose in life, you will never have self-confidence, you will never have initiative and leadership unless you first create these qualities in your imagination and see yourself in possession of them.

DON'T EVEN THINK NEGATIVE THOUGHTS Feelings, beliefs, and thoughts released by the salesperson, through his or her subconscious mind, often speak more loudly than words. If you understand this principle, you will know why you must sell yourself first, before trying to sell others. This also explains why the negative-minded salesperson hears the "no" so often.

your greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence.

habits, such as your self-confidence, enthusiasm, initiative, and persistence. When you change these habits, you make profound changes that will have a major influence on everything you do and how successful you will be.

sua maior fraqueza é a falta de autoconfiança. Essa

la fe es un estado de ánimo, y que puede ser inducida por la autosugestión".

By following the instructions laid down in the chapters on auto-suggestion, and the subconscious mind, as summarized in the chapter on auto-suggestion, you may CONVINCE the subconscious mind that you believe you will receive that for which you ask, and it will act upon that belief, which your subconscious mind passes back to you in the form of FAITH, followed by definite plans for procuring that which you desire.

Therefore I will devote 10 minutes daily to demanding of myself the development of self-confidence .

Just as in matters of seduction, people lend the most to those who need them the least.

This, perhaps is true self-confidence: the ability to look at the world without the need to find signs that stroke one's ego.

This, perhaps, is true self-confidence: the ability to look at the world without the need to find signs that stroke one's ego.*

Whatever you do, just don't be a dog claiming to be a wolf.

For the optimal realization of our possibilities, we need to trust ourselves and we need to admire ourselves, and the trust and admiration need to be grounded in reality, not generated out of fantasy and self-delusion.

It is a mistake to look at someone who is self-assured and say, "It's easy for her to be self-assertive, she has good self-esteem." One of the ways we build self-esteem is by being self-assertive when it is not easy to do so. There are always times when self-assertiveness calls on our courage.

I'm not usually good, but when i am, i'm goddamn good.

I guess what I meant is that you are better off doing nothing than doing something badly. But the problem is that bad writers tend to have the self-confidence, while the good ones tend to have self-doubt. [1989 interview in the literary journal "Arete". In response to the question Your poem 'friendly advice to a lot of young men' says that one is better off living in a barrel than he is writing poetry. Would you give this same advice today?]