Quotes on Self Confidence

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.

Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.

Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Imagination, on the contrary, which is ever wandering beyond the bounds of truth, joined to self-love and that self-confidence we are so apt to indulge, prompt us to draw conclusions which are not immediately derived from facts.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

The kind of commitment I find among the best performers across virtually every field is a single-minded passion for what they do, an unwavering desire for excellence in the way they think and the way they work. Genuine confidence is what launches you out of bed in the morning, and through your day with a spring in your step.

Self confidence is the ability to exercise restraint in the face of disrespect and still show respect in response.

Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.

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

How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?

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.