Quotes about Confidence

• Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. 
• It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
• Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance. 
• Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven.
• A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. 
• It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.
• We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.
• It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to. 
• Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right. 
• I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
• If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. 
• Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
• I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know.  Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
• Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. 
• People are like stained-glass windows.  They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
• Don't live down to expectations.  Go out there and do something remarkable.
• Success comes in cans, not cant's. 
• Put your future in good hands - your own.
• What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty!  I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle. 
• I am not a has-been.  I am a will be.
• The light of starry dreams can only be seen once we escape the blinding cities of disbelief.
• I'm not old enough to play baseball or football.  I'm not eight yet.  My mom told me when you start baseball, you aren't going to be able to run that fast because you had an operation.  I told Mom I wouldn't need to run that fast.  When I play baseball, I'll  just hit them out of the park.  Then I'll be able to walk. 
• If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
• Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. 
• Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.
• You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
• It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. 
• Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. 
• Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
• A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.  Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
• Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
• Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. 
• Always act like you're wearing an invisible crown. 
• The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
• Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
• People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
• It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
• When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that they take better care of it there. 
• Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
• You have brains in your head, You have feet in your shoes,  You can steer yourself in any direction you choose, You're on your own, And you know what you know, You are the guy who'll decide where to go.
• Confidence is preparation.  Everything else is beyond your control.
• Knock the "t" off the "can't."
• Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.
• They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
• We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.
• I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
• If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
• Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them. 
• Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot. 
• What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
• The horizon, to remind you of your courage, sends its gentle waves of confidence to kiss your feet.
• Never dull your shine for somebody else.
• If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
• Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
• Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
• The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.
• I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate.  It was not a matter of bad or good luck.  When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair.
• Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.  ~William Hazlitt
• Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.
• Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
• Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. 
• It's me who is my enemy, Me who beats me up, Me who makes the monsters, Me who strips my confidence..
• The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled. 
• Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves. 
• A gold medal is a nice thing - but if you're not enough without it, you'll never be enough with it. 
• I've spent most of my life walking under that hovering cloud, jealousy, whose acid raindrops blurred my vision and burned holes in my heart.  Once I learned to use the umbrella of confidence, the skies cleared up for me and the sunshine called joy became my faithful companion. 
• Don't let anyone steal your dream.  It's your dream, not theirs. 
• If I am not for myself, who will be? 
• All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them. 
• Self-love seems so often unrequited. 
• Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else. 
• What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate. 
• There are offences given and offences not given but taken.
• Men harm others by their deeds, themselves by their thoughts.
• A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows. 
• Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. 
• It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
• If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
• I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. 
• How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it. 
• Every day we slaughter our finest impulses.  That is why we get a heart-ache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty.  Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.  We all derive from the same source.  There is no mystery about the origin of things.  We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, to discover what is already there.
• Pay no attention to what the critics say.  A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic. 
• Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.
• When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
• The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.
• Be proud to wear you.
• Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you.
• Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.
• Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.
• Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands. 
• God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily. 
• We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
• As soon, Seek roses in December, ice in June; Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff; Believe a woman or an epitaph, Or any other thing that's false, before
• You trust in critics.
• You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose. 
• [Self-]assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge. 
• Mediocrity is a hand-rail. 
• All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world. 
• Oliver Wendell Holmes once attended a meeting in which he was the shortest man present.  "Dr. Holmes," quipped a friend, "I should think you'd feel rather small among us big fellows."  "I do," retorted Holmes, "I feel like a dime among a lot of pennies." 
• The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others. 
• Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs.  Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees. 
• Many men are like unto sausages:  Whatever you stuff them with, that they will bear in them. 
• Only as high as I reach can I grow, Only as far as I seek can I go, Only as deep as I look can I see, Only as much as I dream can I be.
• Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.  Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.  It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.  We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?  Actually, who are you not to be?  You are a child of God.  Your playing small does not serve the world.  There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.  We are all meant to shine, as children do.  We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.  It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.  And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.  As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. 
• Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. 
• No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.