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May you find comfort and joy in these encouraging quotes about Self Confidence.
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
The secret of making dreams come true
can be summarized in four C's.
They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy;
and the greatest of these is Confidence.
- Walt Disney
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller
If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people
is that they trigger confusion in us
that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with.
To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves,
we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.
- Pema Chodron
No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous
Once you respect yourself, there is no longer
any reason to disrespect anyone else.
Once you are confident of your own worthiness,
the worthiness of others ceases to be an issue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I'm trusting and being myself...
everything in my life reflects this
by falling into place easily, often miraculously.
- Shakti Gawain
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
You are to have implicit confidence in your own ability,
knowing that it is the nature of thought
to externalize itself in your health and affairs,
knowing that you are the thinker.
- Ernest Holmes
If you have no confidence in self,
you are twice defeated in the race of life.
With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Jealousy is the result of one's lack
of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.
- Sasha Azevedo
We may not always be aware of it, but we all create
and repeat affirmations constantly.
The problem is, we typically don't pay attention
to exactly what those affirmations are saying.
Often we go through the day giving ourselves
all sorts of contradictory, or even negative messages.
We may project confidence to the world around us,
while our inner dialogue says...
I hope this works.
I am so nervous about this.
I hope I don't blow it.
Affirmations are self fulfilling prophecies.
If we say, This is never going to work
... then chances are excellent it never will.
- John Assaraf
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
May you delight in Dancing Lightly With Life.
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
May your sun always shine, and your sky be forever blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Grin your smile; giggle your laugh; unfurl your joy;
dash the last trace of your self-consciousness;
and cavort your most uninhibited play.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are a magnificent gift to the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I sail the seas of life as the MASTER of my ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- Joseph Campbell
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Forgiveness is really a gift to yourself -
have the compassion to forgive others,
and the courage to forgive yourself.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
We can never obtain peace in the outer world
until we make peace with ourselves.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You go against yourself when you
judge or blame yourself for anything
- don Miguel Ruiz
What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow
We are what we pretend to be,
so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important
as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Henry David Thoreau
In my own deepening understanding of myself
I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well.
The better I am at self-care
the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What you think of me is none of my business.
- Terry Cole-Whittaker
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Forgiving is not a gift to someone else.
Forgiving is your gift to yourself -
a great gift - the gift of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Your example is far more influential and inspiring
than any words of instruction, or threats,
or even words of encouragement.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Forgiveness is the only way to heal
- don Miguel Ruiz
Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
- Lao-Tzu
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