Quotes About Independence

Don't let others put thoughts into your mind that takes away your self-confidence.

If you worry about what other people think of you, then you will have more confidence in their opinion than you have in your own.

Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself- your strengths and your limitations -in contrast to depending on affirmation from others.

My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Be who you are and don't allow anyone to affect the confidence you have in your individuality.

My confidence allows me to do things my way and help people make a decision. People like the idea of me just being me.

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.

Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.

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.

It's about you, giving yourself permission to be who you are, without giving a rip about what anybody else is thinking about it.

If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.

Wake-up! Think for yourself, be yourself and return to what is real.

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.

My definition of confidence is how you feel about yourself, and not letting the external world define you.

Although I enjoy digging through the library to help students find books, my aim is to help them develop self-confidence in choosing books for themselves.

Confidence is its own security.

It was important that I learn that what I wanted was no different from what other artists wanted: confidence that I could be my own censor, audience, and competition.

I'm confident. Some people don't like confidence. They resent confidence.

Confidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and if so, what they're thinking.

This is the beauty that emerges from self-confidence, class confidence. That says, I am not born to please. I am born to be pleased.

Have the confidence to be your own person.

If someone else doesn't like your confidence, that's their problem. Why? You always come before they do, that's why.

The greatest possession is Self-possession.

"The twins no longer derive their sustenance from Nature's founts - in short," said Mr. Micawber, in one of his bursts of confidence, "they are weaned..."