Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge. — George Santayana
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Glamour is assurance. It is a kind of knowing that you are all right in every way, mentally and physically and in appearance, and that, whatever the occasion or the situation, you are equal to it. — Marlene Dietrich
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. — Samuel Johnson
Confidence is the public face of competence. — Ron Suskind
Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself- your strengths and your limitations -in contrast to depending on affirmation from others. — Judith M Bardwick
Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential. — Sheryl Sandberg
The more confident you are, the less doubt you will have, and the more likely your success will be. — Lewis Howes
Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact. — Bobby Fischer
Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem. — Woody Allen
Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence. — Ron Suskind
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. — Norman Vincent Peale
Short Self Assurance Quotes
Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life. — John Dewey
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness. — Michel de Montaigne
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. — Sophia Loren
Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture. — Frank Gifford
Self-trust is the first secret to success. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. — Kiefer Sutherland
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. — George Herbert
Confidence is always overconfidence. — Robert Byrne
Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life. — Ann Landers
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. — Arthur Ashe
Maturity is learning to walk away from people and situation that threaten your peace of mind, self respect, values, morals and self worth.
Good Quotes
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. — Bernard Meltzer
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. — Steven Weinberg
I've had good times and I've had bad times and I reminisce, maybe when I lay down, but throughout my day I keep myself engulfed in whatever moment I'm in because it could steer me into a depressed state. — Kevin Gates
We are what we believe we are.
No matter how successful you become you gotta keep grindin' and be a good person and then good things will come to you. — Meek Mill
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. — Ann Landers
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. — Winston Churchill
That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. My teacher was Ferruccio Cusinati — Maria Callas
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aurelius
I trust that you will so live today as to realize that you are masters of your own destiny, masters of your fate; if there is anything you want in this world, it is for you to strike out with confidence and faith in self and reach for it. — Marcus Garvey
You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman. — Max Lucado
A positive self image and healthy self esteem is based on approval, acceptance and recognition from others; but also upon actual accomplishments, achievements and success upon the realistic self confidence which ensues. — Abraham Maslow
I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being. — Hafez
I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way. — Nikki Giovanni
Our confidence in Christ does not make us lazy, negligent, or careless, but on the contrary it awakens us, urges us on, and makes us active in living righteous lives and doing good. There is no self-confidence to compare with this. — Huldrych Zwingli
We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. — Marie Curie
I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work. — Gregor Mendel
Self-confidence Quotes
First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events. — Marie Curie
Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine. — Oprah Winfrey
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. — Marie Curie
Love is something you and I must have. We must have it because our spirit feeds upon it. We must have it because without it we become weak and faint. Without love our self-esteem weakens. Without it our courage fails. Without love we can no longer look out confidently at the world. — Chief Dan George
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. — Robin Olds
You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough. — Abraham Lincoln
Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always. — Yves Saint Laurent
I just think it's good to be confident. If I'm not on my team why should anybody else be? — Robert Downey, Jr.
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go. — Dr. Seuss
Self Trust Quotes
Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide. — Marva Collins
If you want to give birth to your true self, you are going to have to dig deep down into that body of yours and let your soul howl. Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and trust that if you turn off your head, your feet will take you where you need to go. — Gabrielle Roth
Face your fear, empty yourself, trust your own voice, let go of control, have faith in outcomes, connect with a larger purpose, derive meaning from the struggle. — Kano Jigoro
Freedom, by definition, is people realizing that they are their own leaders. — Diane Nash
If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own power. Your self-sufficiency, your selfishness and your intellectual pride will inhibit His coming to live in your heart because God cannot fill what is already full. It is as simple as that. — Mother Teresa
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. — Foster C. Mcclellan
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. — Golda Meir
The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which takes life's difficulties as a God given opportunity, and regards its troubles as a sacred trust, and wears the thorns as a crown. — James Stewart
You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. — Steve Jobs
Self Belief Quotes
Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions. — Aaron T. Beck
When your world falls apart and you're left with just yourself, you're forced to discover who you are without all the beliefs, expectations, views, & self-image provided by some teacher or system. The calculating mind gives way to the intuitive mind, Knowing without Thinking. — Gabrielle Roth
Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure. — Albert Bandura
Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a basic 'taken for granted' fashion an organization's view of its self and its environment. — Edgar Schein
The single biggest obstacle to us getting what we really need and want in life is right here. It's ourselves. — William Ury
Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success. — Virat Kohli
Human beings are emotional amoral egoists, driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for survival, others alterable. — Nayef Al-Rodhan
Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are. — Rachel Naomi Remen
If one asks for success and prepares for failure, one will get the situation one has prepared for. — Florence Scovel Shinn
Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started. — Sam Altman
Self Confidence Building Quotes
Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents. — Conrad Burns
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. — Marianne Williamson
I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles. — Laurie Halse Anderson
We define ourselves far too often by our past failures. That’s not you. You are this person right now. You’re the person who has learned from those failures. Build confidence and momentum with each good decision you make from here on out and choose to be inspired. — Joe Rogan
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. — Dale Carnegie
Confidence comes not from always being right but from not
fearing to be wrong. — Peter McIntyre
Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don't let these feelings stop them. — T. Harv Eker
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. — Marianne Williamson
I tell students that even if they don't like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career, but that also builds self-confidence, no matter what they choose to do with their lives. — Danica McKellar
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment. — Thomas Carlyle
Self Opinion Quotes
Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves. — Osho
There was a day when I died; died to self, my opinions, preferences, tastes and will; died to the world, its approval or censure; died to the approval or blame even of my brethren or friends; and since then I have studied only to show myself approved unto God. — George Muller
I wish that we had much more of the Spirit of Christ and a great deal less self, and less of human opinions. If we err, let it be on the side of mercy rather than on the side of condemnation and harsh dealing. — Ellen G. White
Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions... Do your thing and don't care if they like it. — Tina Fey
It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion that they dare not act according to the dictates of their consciences when acting thus would incur the popular frown. — Charles Grandison Finney
Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be. When you love, everything will come right. Love has its own action. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Don't allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out. — Judah Smith
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone. — Naval Ravikant
Your opinion of yourself becomes your reality. — 50 Cent
Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons. — J. K. Rowling
Self Assessment Quotes
Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle. — Eric Zorn
A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself. — Marcus Aurelius
Some of us have become so addicted to pointing fingers at others for all the wrong that happens in our lives that self-assessment has become synonymous with blaming the victim. — LZ Granderson
educators best serve students by helping them be more self-reflective. The only way any of us can improve—as Coach Graham taught me—is if we develop a real ability to assess ourselves. If we can’t accurately do that, how can we tell if we’re getting better or worse? — Randy Pausch
Self-reflection entails asking yourself questions about your values, assessing your strengths and failures, thinking about your perceptions and interactions with others, and imagining where you want to take your life in the future. — Robert L. Rosen
There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past. — Ryszard Kapuscinski
It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves. — Mahatma Gandhi
The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life. — Wayne Dyer
Low self-esteem comes from who you assess yourself to be. It's about who you are, and I didn't think I was anything or anybody. — Gloria Gaynor
Building Self Confidence Quotes
Through persistence, self-knowledge, prayer, commitment, optimism, a resolute trust in God and the building of your own personal moral strength, you can enjoy the blessings of a deeper faith and face the difficulties of life with courage and confidence. — Norman Vincent Peale
Look the world straight in the eye. — Helen Keller
We need self-confidence in our ability to build Africa. I trust in Mali and I trust in music. — Rokia Traore
Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about the world. It can help to manufacture rote obedience or independent activity; it can create high self-confidence or low self-esteem. — Alison Lurie
Leaders relentlessly upgrade their team, using every encounter as an opportunity to evaluate, coach, and build self-confidence. — Jack Welch
With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world. — Dalai Lama
The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. — Alan Cohen
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not. — Eric Thomas
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. — Alan Cohen
Self Esteem And Confidence Quotes
I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it. — Johnny Depp
Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable. — Zig Ziglar
If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person. — Fred Rogers
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. — Malcolm Forbes
They can do all because they think they can. — Virgil
You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be. — Lou Holtz
Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system. — Dirk Kempthorne
Don't listen to negative influences. Believe in yourself, and show others what you can do. Only "you" can find your potential. — Marla Runyan
Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate. — Kurt Hahn
Many of our ideas and beliefs about ourselves and the world are so deeply ingrained that we are unaware that they are beliefs and take them, without question, for the absolute truth. — Rupert Spira
Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it. — Ralph Ellison
A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed. — Desmond Tutu
Self-assurance is two-thirds of success. — Scottish Proverbs
If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic. — Jean Sibelius
The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it. — Archibald MacLeish
I am driven to observe of the ultra-Darwinists the following features as symptomatic. First, to my eyes, is their almost unbelievable self-assurance, their breezy self-confidence. — Simon Conway Morris
They trap you in the toxic narrative that quitting is a weakness, an easy way out or, worse yet, that quitting is failure. I assure you – quitting is for winners and quitting is a skill. — Steven Bartlett
I know my body. I know my mind. I know what I can do. — Wim Hof
Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her. — Lao Tzu
The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever. — Soren Kierkegaard
The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance of their enemies, but the complacency of their friends, are precious catalysts for change. — Howard Zinn
Just know on the inside that you won't quit. That's it. There is nothing else. Shakespeare said, 'To thine own self be true'. I don't know what the @*$% he meant by that, but just don't quit on yourself. It's worth it. The juice is worth the squeeze. I assure you. — Forrest Griffin
How blessed and amazing are God's gifts, dear friends! Life with immortality, splendor with righteous, truth with confidence, faith with assurance, self-control with holiness! And all these things are within our comprehension. — Pope Clement I
Whatever that thing is that white people like in blacks, I don't have it. Maybe it's my arrogance or my self-assurance or the way I carry myself, but whatever it is, I don't have it. — Paul Mooney
Human beings are drawn to cats because they are all we are not — self-contained, elegant in everything they do, relaxed, assured, glad of company, yet still possessing secret lives. — Pam Brown
Even the self-assured will raise their perceived self-efficacy if models teach them better ways of doing things. — Albert Bandura
It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness. — Calvin Coolidge
To go from playing a character that was so self-assured, so mature beyond her years, and so kick-ass and ruthless to someone who's quite normal is interesting. — Alycia Debnam Carey
The measure of self-assurance is how deeply and sincerely interested you are in others; the measure of insecurity is how much you try to impress them with you. — Mark Goulston
A woman who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes her work with the assurance of success magnetizes her condition. She draws to herself the creative powers of the universe. — Orison Swett Marden
The church doctrines of obedience to authority, repentance, fear of punishment, self-abnegation, acceptance of outer direction rather than inner assurance, elevation of faith over reason, and intolerance make institutionalized religion an ideal instrument of social constraint. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action — Jonathan Edwards
The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. — Howard Zinn
As to giving credit to whom credit is due, rest assured the best way to do good to one's-self is to do justice to others. There is plenty for everybody in science, and more than can be consumed in our time. One may get a fair name by suppressing references, but the Jewish maxim is true, 'He who seeks a name loses fame.' — Edward Forbes
There was nothing so attractive as a powerful, handsome, and self-assured man. — Sylvia Day
Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ" is the heartbeat of the gospel, joyful liberation from fear of the Final Outcome, a summons to self-acceptance, and freedom for a life of compassion toward others. — Brennan Manning
How can love survive in such a graceless age? The trust and self assurance that lead to happiness, they're the very things we kill. — Don Henley
An individual's arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance. — Otto Weininger
The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned.... Our hymns were loaded with arrogance - self-congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, what hell everybody else would catch come Judgment Day. — Robert A. Heinlein
I think 'tradition' is in the past - and how can someone really 'fear' a color? A man may prefer navy to turquoise, but a self assured man could wear any color and he knows that. It's a distinction of confidence. — Jean Pigozzi
Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we were to close the doors upon sorrow and distress, we might be excluding our greatest friends and benefactors. Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering, and self-mastery. — Spencer W. Kimball
Where's your sense of adventure? It died under mysterious circumstances. My sense of self-preservation found the body, but assures me it has an airtight alibi. -Captain Tagon & Captain Andreyasn — Howard Tayler
Be courteous to all, but personal with number of, and allow those couple be perfectly attempted ahead of you provide them with your self-assurance. — George Washington
It is a technique ideally suited to prevent physical and mental illness and to protect the body generally, developing an inevitable sense of self-reliance and assurance. — Yehudi Menuhin
Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance. — Robert Ardrey
Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness and trust-based relationships. — Stephen Covey
A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin. — Sylvia Plath
For a large corporation to be effective, it must be simple. For an organization to be simple, its people must have self-confidence and intellectual self-assurance. Insecure managers create complexity, real leaders do not clutter. — Jack Welch
How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean up our mess? Hope for a nanny God, who will with a miracle grant us amnesty from our folly - thats not aligned with either history or the text of the Bible. — Sheldon Whitehouse
I was creative before I started meditating, but I had, looking back, a weakness. I wasn't self-assured. I had a little bit of melancholy. I had a lot of anger for my situations in life, and I would take this out on my first wife. — David Lynch
Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery. — Jeremy Collier
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