Quotes About Self-assurance

If you can't impress yourself, then no one else really matters.

If you think you can you can, if you think you can't you're right!

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge . . . says Darwin in The Descent of Man, his

Who waits around for a compliment? Ask for it. Then take it. And when you do, you realize you knew the truth all along and you didn't need anybody else's opinion in the first place. No one has to tell you that you did a good job.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.

Anyone can give advice, but a person cannot act, cannot do his karma, unless he is confident.

She knew that the paint and the clothes and the hair were more than fashion for Persis Blake. They were armor.

I learned something from that. If someone asks me something that I really don't want to do, I say no. I have to trust that. And I'm not afraid to talk money.

Do not doubt the goodness in you. It is inappropriate.

Trust yourself as much you can do......Never trust anyone more than half of you does to yourself........

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

I know who I am; I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I am capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off.

He was about forty, with the smooth weathered look of a man who keeps himself in shape with handball and self-esteem.

I'll never second guess the things that I have done. I've got too much left to say and too much to become.

A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.

Our greatest problems in life come not so much from the situations we confront as from our doubts about our ability to handle them.

I do this to feign confidence, because the more I fake it, the more it's supposed to feel true.

Fear is just not a part of my life - so much so that if it's involved in somebody else's life and they're close to me, I won't be around them.

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.

Repeat after me: "I am a goddess. I am a goddess. I am a goddess." Make this your mantra. From constant repetition you will start believing it, and if you yourself are convinced of your goddesshood, other people will be convinced.

Right from the beginning, I had the sense that whenever he was trying to convince Pin of something, he was really trying to convince himself.

My smile has become my calling card. It is, after all, the most potent weapon I possess.

It's only one date. I can do it. And you'll probably lose interest afterward." "No other woman's ever needed to give herself a pep talk to spend time with me." "That you know of.