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.
Follow your path, and let the people talk.
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
I don't have time for easy. Tennis is just hard.
Skills are cheap. Passion is priceless.
I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.
You could be great, you know, it’s all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, no doubt about that.
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