Quotes on Confidence

I suggest that going to Mars means permanence on the planet - a mission by which we are building up a confidence level to become a two-planet species.

The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence

I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice. And if you're always the new kid, you never get a chance to adapt, so your confidence is just zilch.

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.

I have great faith in fools,— self-confidence my friends will call it.

If you must say yes, say it with an open heart. If you must say no, say it without fear.

All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

I have immense respect for anyone with a physical deformity and the courage and confidence it takes just to go out in the world.

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 about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Being deeply knowledgeable on one subject narrows one's focus and increases confidence, but it also blurs dissenting views until they are no longer visible, thereby transforming data collection into bias confirmation and morphing self-deception into self-assurance.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.