Quotes about Self-confidence

Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.

If your abilities are only mediocre, modesty is mere honesty; but if you possess great talents, it is hypocrisy.

I don't make comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone else. I just refuse to measure myself as part of anything. I'm an utter egotist.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it's not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, 'Hey, I can't really figure those things out.'

This view had been the fundamental feature of his image of the world and the basis of his conduct in life. It justified the structure of his economic existence. He could permit his livelihood to be assured by his brother's strenuous and dangerous work, so that Maimonides could devote himself to realizing his plans in peace and quiet. This view also had a place in his self-confidence and probably aroused a certain awareness of the relationship of providence to his own life.

self-confidence is the worst of teachers—but from the church's most famous writers.

Since I don't look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different. But different is good.

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

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.

Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.

Face your path with courage, don't be scared of people's criticism. And, above all, don't let yourself get paralyzed by your own criticism.

If we were meant to be nude, we would have been born that way.