Quotes on Self Confidence

Fighter pilot is an attitude. It is cockiness. It is aggressiveness. It is self-confidence. It is a streak of rebelliousness, and it is competitiveness. But there's something else - there's a spark. There's a desire to be good. To do well; in the eyes of your peers, and in your own mind.

These unwritten amenities have been in part responsible for giving our people the feeling of independence and self-confidence, the feeling of creativity. These amenities have dignified the right of dissent and have honored the right to be nonconformists and the right to defy submissiveness. They have encouraged lives of high spirits rather than hushed, suffocating silence.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Ignore any loss of nerve, ignore any loss of self-confidence, ignore any doubt or confusion. Move on believing in love, in peace, and harmony, and in great accomplishment. Remember joy isn't a stranger to you. You are winning and you are strong. Love. Love first, love always, love forever.

In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment - independent will - that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.

Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

It takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness to pronounce on a great many matters of which I have little or no knowledge is one of my prime qualifications for this trade.

I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Lack of confidence is what makes you want to change somebody else's mind. When you're OK, you don't need to convince anyone else in order to empower yourself.

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not malleable; he may be mistaken, he may be fooled in a given instance, but he is inflexible in regard to the absolutism of reality, i.e., in seeking and demanding truth.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Trials should not surprise us, or cause us to doubt God's faithfulness. Rather, we should actually be glad for them. God sends trials to strengthen our trust in him so that our faith will not fail. Our trials keep us trusting; they burn away our self confidence and drive us to our Savior.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.