Quotes about confidence

You must develop the ability to be disliked in order to free yourself from the prison of other people's opinions.

You glow differently when your confidence is fuelled by belief in yourself instead of validation from others.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear a hundred battles.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.

Love does not entreat or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself.

In a world become blind, I beat the drum of the Deathless.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is to live dangerously!

Only the educated are free.

When you do anything from a clear judgment that it ought to be done, never shun the being seen to do it, even though the world should make a wrong supposition about it.

Even though you’re not equipped, keep searching: equipment isn’t necessary on the way to the Lord.

The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.

The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

She believed she could, so she did.

Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and start being excited about what could go right.

Inhale confidence, exhale doubt.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

You are allowed to take up space.

You are not too much. You are exactly enough.

Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is keep going.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take.

Be the energy you want to attract.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Give me liberty, or give me death!

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.

Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity.

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

When people throw stones at you, don’t throw them back. Collect them all and build an empire.

Be silly. Be fun. Be different. Be crazy. Be you, because life is too short to be anything but happy.

You are the artist of your own life. Don’t hand the paintbrush to anyone else.

To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

Fear has two meanings: Forget Everything And Run, or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.

I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.

Your silence will not protect you.

Feet, what do I need them for if I have wings to fly.

The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

When one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.

Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are our most powerful weapons.

Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

Women belong in all places where decisions are being made.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves.

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all.

Have the courage to use your own understanding; this is the motto of the Enlightenment.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue that springs from force of character.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that, in the modern world, the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

Stand a little out of my sun.