Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
I'm self-confident and not afraid to speak my mind.
Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral loose, and free-floating - these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything.
As for the role of France and Germany: French politics is often more self-confident then German politics due to the catastrophe in the first half of the last century. If Berlin and Paris don't agree, then it is difficult to make progress in Europe.
Unless you make tremendous efforts, you will not be convinced that effort will take you nowhere. The self is so self-confident that unless it is totally discouraged it will not give up. Mere verbal conviction is not enough. Hard facts alone can show the absolute nothingness of the self-image.
The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
Gymnastics does take great focus and concentration. What I do is look to my coach. He keeps me focused. And I meditate to get myself confident before the competition floor. That helps keep me focused, too.
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