Quotes about Self-belief

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

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

Borrowed beliefs have no passion, therefore no power.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Your destiny is not determined by your critics. Focus on running your own race.

We must let our identity, not our insecurity, be the first thing that walks into every situation we face—every decision we make.

You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more.

If you put your faith in yourself and your abilities, intellect and dreams, then your foundation is only as strong as you are.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

We lack faith in *what* exists within us because we lack faith in *Who* exists within us.

I feel to invite women everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you reach beyond your capacity. I hope you will not nag yourselves with thoughts of failure. I hope you will not try to set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. If you do so, you will witness miracles come to pass.

So You will be what you will to be; Let failure find its false content In that poor word, 'environment,' But spirit scorns it, and is free.