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Quotes About Self-belief

Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it!
~ Ruth Gordon
I like to go into an audition room, particularly when they think I'm not right for a part, and really fight for it. There's something so exciting and challenging about proving to yourself that you can pull it off.
~ Sarah Paulson
When you're down on yourself, and when you are hunkering down and pulling back, you're not going to make any better decisions than when you were aggressively, belligerently putting yourself forward.
~ Hillary Clinton
There's been so many times when I've heard people not pulling for me. So I just play and try not to think about it.
~ Greg Oden
I try to tell myself something encouraging to get myself pumped for the day.
~ Georgina Bloomberg
I think the most important thing you can do is to keep drawing no matter what. And to not be afraid of drawing whatever interests you. If there is something that you want to draw, to make, then I think you should pursue it and not let anybody tell you that you can't do it.
~ Brian Selznick
Because everybody always encouraged me to sing, I assumed that I wasn't bad at it. It felt like it was obvious what I was going to pursue. I thought I was good for as long as I can remember.
~ Tinashe
The time I spent in New York when I was 17 gave me the confidence to pursue my dreams with my whole heart.
~ Leslie Odom, Jr.
People say, 'You will be 30 years old; you're too old. You'll get your nose broke,' say dad's a pushy dad. You hear stupid things and put them out of your mind.
~ Katie Taylor
You've got to put in the work. And you've got to play with confidence. You've got to believe in yourself.
~ Paul Pierce
Anybody who puts himself on a ballot has to have a big ego, we have to have it.
~ Michael Capuano
When people criticize me, instead of putting my head down, it gives me energy to do even more.
~ Zlatan Ibrahimovic
If you're confident, then it helps you live up to your potential, but if you believe because you went to a certain school it means you're entitled to have a particular career, you'll fall flat on your face eventually.
~ Eddie Marsan
You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.
~ William Morris Hunt
When you get on the floor, you've got to think you're the best player. Everybody does that.
~ David Robinson
Following your heart and working really, really hard is the best thing you can do, and just try not to be too hard on yourself.
~ Alexandra Daddario
I would be a fool to deny my own abilities.
~ Julie Andrews
I knew I wanted to do music, but leaving such a successful career one would think I'd kind of shot myself in the foot. I knew I made the right decision, and at the end of the day it's up to me to get where I want to go, but it's a lot to take on.
~ Avi Kaplan
There's always that mental battle, who's going to have that confidence to be on the front foot.
~ Per Mertesacker
Of course I expected to rise so quickly. I know what I'm capable of. Even though other people didn't know, I was going to make sure they knew exactly who Alexa Bliss was, and I was going to make sure they never forgot it.
~ Alexa Bliss
I think there is something about L.A., fortunately: once you get one role people think, 'Oh well, someone employed her, so maybe we can.' I mean, that's my idea of it, anyway. 'She can put one foot in front of the other and say a line.'
~ Bella Heathcote
I believe in myself and the justice I've fought for all my life.
~ Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Frankly speaking, if I care what people write, whether it is positive or negative, I believe, personally, I'm on the wrong path.
~ John McLaughlin
Some might frown on American bravado but in athletics I have come to favour the American way; that bold self-belief is what it takes.
~ Justin Rose