You can't convince someone else - whether it's a potential employer, a loan officer at the car dealership, or someone you've been crushing on - that you're amazing and terrific if you don't actually think you are.
Interpretation
Self-belief is essential to persuade others about your worth.
This quote emphasizes the importance of self-confidence in interactions with others. If you do not believe in your own value and abilities, it will be challenging to influence others, such as employers or romantic interests, to see you in a positive light as well.
In practice
In a motivational speech to inspire confidence in young adults.
One of the best things about life—a reason not to go blindly after one goal and one goal only—is that sometimes it will take you to something that is way cooler than anything you would have consciously set out to do in the first place.
When your goal is to gain experience, perspective, and knowledge, failure is no longer a possibility
You don't get taken seriously by asking someone to take you seriously. You’ve got to show up and own it. If this is a man’s world, who cares? I’m still really glad to be a girl in it.
No matter where you are in life, you'll save a lot of time by not worrying too much about what other people think about you. The earlier in your life that you can learn that, the easier the rest of it will be.
Raise your ambition beyond where you're capable of now. There's nothing about my hometown that said I'd be working with Fortune 50 CEO's, Olympians, at the highest level.
At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
If you are humble, your concentration will be very high. That's the way to go in sports.
You must endure what is painful to secure that which is profitable.
If you don't give up, you still have a chance. And when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.
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