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Quotes About Self-reliance

There's no better makeup than self-confidence.
~ Shakira
Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.
~ Michelle Obama
The leftist is anti-individualistic... He is not the sort of person who has an inner sense of confidence in his own ability to solve his own problems and satisfy his own needs.
~ Theodore Kaczynski
I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.
~ Jane Fonda
It's no good being too easily swayed by people's opinions. You have to believe in yourself.
~ Donatella Versace
Let others determine your worth and you're already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves.
~ Unknown
Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself- your strengths and your limitations -in contrast to depending on affirmation from others.
~ Judith M Bardwick
Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.
~ William J. H. Boetcker
Genuine fearlessness arises with the confidence that we will be able to gather the inner resources to deal with any situation that comes our way.
~ Matthieu Ricard
There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
~ John Calvin
I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
~ Eddie Murphy
My confidence allows me to do things my way and help people make a decision. People like the idea of me just being me.
~ Curtis Jackson
Confidence is a belief in myself and my ability. I built my confidence through hard training. I believed there was no one out there working any harder than me.
~ Joan Benoit
I don't take drugs. I never did. All the feelings that drugs are supposed to produce in you - confidence or energy - I can produce naturally.
~ Madonna Ciccone
Self worth cannot be verified by others. You are worthy because you say it is so. If you depend on others for your value it is other-worth.
~ Wayne Dyer
I think it's really important not to be so judgmental and not to be so fearful. Try to have confidence in yourself. Don't depend so much on what others say about you or want you to be.
~ Deepa Mehta
If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
~ Ayn Rand
The best way to help Burma is to empower the people of Burma, to help us have enough self-confidence to obtain what we want for ourselves.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
My definition of confidence is how you feel about yourself, and not letting the external world define you.
~ Bonnie St. John
No one is going to pay much attention to the person who has no confidence in himself.
~ Napoleon Hill
He is safe who admits no one to his confidence.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
May you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
I think the best way to have confidence is not to allow everyone else's insecurities to be your own.
~ Jessie J
Right now I have more confidence in myself. I grew up.
~ Amelie Mauresmo