Quotes about Self-confidence

The Crown. Place it upon your head and you assume a different post--tranquil yet radiating assurance. Never show doubt, never lose your dignity beneath the crown, or it will not fit. It will seem to be destined for one more worthy. Do not wait for a coronation; the greatest emporers crown themselves.

The way I was taught, being black was a plus, always. Being a human being, being in America, and being black, all three were the greatest things that could happen to you. The combination was unbeatable.

The tragedy is that so many people look for self-confidence and respect everywhere except within themselves, so they fail in their search.

There are admirable potentialities in every human being.  Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself: "It all depends on me."

You're unique, amazing
Like no one else
You have the exclusive
On being yourself.

When a person says, "I'll try," the part he doesn't say is "but I'll probably fail."

The man who says a thing cannot be done is invariably right, for he will never do it.

You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost
anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. 

Believe you know all the answers and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master and you are.

The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.

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

The conquering of adversity produces strength of character, forges self-confidence, engenders self-respect, and assures success in righteous endeavor.

Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self-respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a king.

While clothes may not make the woman, they certainly have a strong effect on her self-confidence - which, I believe, does make the woman.

The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence, utter, complete and bumptious.

Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem; we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs inordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.