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Quotes About Self-belief

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
To succeed is nothing-it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.
~ Marie Leneru
I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.
~ Wilma Pearl Mankiller
I've always seen myself as a winner, even as a kid. If I hadn't, I just might have gone down the drain a couple of times. I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it 'til the end of the race.
~ Truman Capote
If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.
~ George Edward Woodberry
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone.
~ Nelson Mandela
We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think that we can!
~ George Matthew Adams
I may have faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.
~ Jimmy Hoffa
When it comes to betting on yourself ... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
~ B. C. Forbes
We must fill our minds with a truth loud enough to drown our the incessant defeatist voice of the negative ego.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
Knock her dead, my man. Oh no. Xcor shook his head.That shan't be necessary. This one I like.
~ J.R. Ward
Mary, you can't second-guess yourself. Listen, you go to war in your own way, and the worst thing a soldier can do is have his confidence fried before he hits the field. Not everything is going to end up in victory, but you've got to start it all off, every time, knowing that your training and your instincts are sound. You didn't do anything wrong. You didn't hurt Bitty on purpose.
~ J.R. Ward
Torturing yourself for what you cannot do prevents you from achieving all you can do. It is that simple.
~ Jack Buchanan
I've always been the type of person that thinks, 'If someone else can do it, so can I.'
~ Coy Bowles
I was disappointed in everything - my start and the team's start. People got down on me, but I never got down on myself. I still believed I could be the type of player everyone, including me, thought I was going to be.
~ Eric Davis
I don't believe in being typecast. If I believed it, it probably would have happened to me. You attract what you make.
~ Carrie-Anne Moss
Negative feelings are typical of learning, and you shouldn't feel like you're stupid when you're frustrated doing something. You might say to yourself, 'I can't do this,' but you should say, 'That's great.' That means you really have the potential to learn something there.
~ Angela Duckworth
Of course, people told me, 'Mikey, you will never be an actor. You don't have the look. You're ugly.'
~ Michael Clarke Duncan
You can't listen to what people who aren't musical have to say. When Anytime was released, I had bad reviews, and at first I was hurt. Your songs are like your children. You don't want to hear, 'Your kid is ugly.' But I knew the record was good and it would sell.
~ Brian McKnight
When I read the 'Ugly Betty' pilot, I thought, 'Oh, this part's funny.' I said to my husband, 'I'm going to get it!' But based on what? All my exquisite comedic work in a Nike commercial?
~ Becki Newton
The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds.
~ Freda Adler
In Hyderabad, I suppose my height does pique people's interest, but it's not like it's unacceptable. If you are confident about what you are doing, height doesn't make a difference. You can't be perfect in everything, you know!
~ Kriti Sanon
There is a difference between being arrogant about yourself as a person and being confident that your work has some value. The first is unattractive; the second is healthy and natural.
~ Jeffrey Zeldman
My confidence in myself is unbelievable.
~ Stephen Jackson