As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love. – Brene Brown
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. – Dr. Benjamin Spock
You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can’t have it. – Dr. Robert Anthony
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt
It’s a dead-end street if you sit around waiting for someone else to tell you you’re okay. – Michael Pitt
Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions … do your thing, and don’t care if they like it. – Tina Fey
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with. – Wayne Dyer
Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. – Rumi
Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don’t let these feelings stop them. – T. Harv Eker
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. – E.E. Cummings
Always be yourself and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and try to duplicate it. – Bruce Lee
You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do. – Eleanor Roosevelt
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. – Arthur Ashe
It is confidence in our bodies, minds, and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures. – Oprah Winfrey
I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: Turn back. – Erica Jong
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. – Paul Tillich
Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health. – Dalai Lama
Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have. – Brian Tracy
Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong. – Peter T. McIntyre
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. – Thomas Alva Edison
If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. – Vincent Van Gogh
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. – Andre Dubus
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
Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it. – Bryce Courtenay
If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. – T. Harv Eker
When you’re different, sometimes you don’t see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn’t. – Jodi Picoult
Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. – Coco Chanel
I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally it occurred to me, I’m either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself. Then everything kind of sprung from there. Things that I thought weren’t attractive became sexy. Confidence makes you sexy. – Queen Latifah
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain (also attributed to H. Jackson Brown, Jr.’s mother)
Wouldn’t it be powerful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do just about anything if you knew it would make you happy? This is precisely how much life loves you and wants you to nurture yourself. The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out. – Alan Cohen
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