To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.
It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.
Do your thing and don't care if they like it.
I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me.
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
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.
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.
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