“The more validation I need, the less discernment I have.”
– Kurt Hanks
“If you don’t ask, the answer is always no.”
– Nora Roberts
“You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can’t have it.”
– Robert Anthony
“Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.”
– Michael de Montaigne
“The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.”
– William Jennings Bryan
” I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.”
– Anne Freud
“Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don’t let these feelings stop them.”
– T. Harv Eker
“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they’re yours.”
– Richard Bach
“We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs.”
– Robert Breault
“Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions . . . Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.”
– Tina Fey
“Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.”
– George Herbert
“Humor cones from self-confidence.”
– Rita Mae Brown
“One’s self-image is very important because if that’s in good shape, then you can do anything, or practically anything.”
– John Gielgud
“One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.”
– Arthur Ashe
“People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you’ve figure out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness, and confidence.”
-Jack Canfield
“Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.”
– Erich Fromm
“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.”
– Dr. Seuss
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
– David Brinkley
“It is not so much or friends’ help that helps usm as the confidence of their help.”
– Epicurus
“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”
– E. E. Cummings
“If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
“It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.”
– Samuel Johnson
“Self-confidence can be learned, practiced, and mastered – just like any other skill. Once you master it, everything in your life will change for the better.”
– Barrie Davenport
“Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.”
– Mignon McLaughlin
“Confidence doesn’t come out of nowhere. It’s a result of something . . . hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.”
– Roger Staubach
“I quit being afraid when my first venture failed, and the sky didn’t fall down.”
– Al Neuharth
“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.”
– Francois de la Rochefoucauld
“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
– Rumi
“Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.”
– Vince Lombardi
“When you’re different, sometimes you don’t see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn’t.”
– Jodi Picoult
“if once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.”
– Sally Field
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Always be yourself – express yourself, have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”
– Bruce Lee
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.”
– Elbert Hubbard
“Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause of fear.”
– Norman Vincent Peale
“Confidence is the most important single factor in the this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtained sustain it: work.”
– Jack Nicklaus
“Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– Christopher Robin
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
– Buddha
“Control your own destiny or someone else will.”
– Jack Welch
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.”
– Cicero
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away form the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
– Mark Twain
“Never dull your shine for somebody else.”
– Tyra Banks
“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.”
– Bruce Barton
“As is our confidence so is our capacity.”
– William Hazlitt
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
– Helen Keller
“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”
– Samuel Johnson
“When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.”
– Joe Namath
“Kindness in words creates confidence.”
– Laozi
“Moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you’ve done.”
– Robert Downey Jr.
“Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.”
– Truman Capote
“With confidence, you have won before you have started.”
– Marcus Garvey
“Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.”
– Mignon McLaughlin
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
– Anais Nin
“You have no control over other people’s taste, so focus on staying true to your own.”
– Tim Gunn
“Your success will be determined by you own confidence and fortitude.”
– Michelle Obama
“If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You’ve got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.”
– Chris Evert