When we do something we like, we are not only happy. We are also very strong!

What about thinking of happiness as a right instead than as a gift?

Strategic personal qualities you can base your self-confidence on are those which are interesting for all mankind.

The first secret of success: Believe in Yourself. Nothing changes in your life until you believe you can do things that are important to you. And if you have a low opinion of yourself, nobody...

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.

The thing that matters most is what matters to you, not anybody else.

Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.

A girl yesterday during my program asked me a question; Sir, Why is this world an Unsafe place? And i had confusion not clarity… No answers

The attacks of 9/11 were the biggest surprise in American history, and for the past ten years we haven’t stopped being surprised. The war on terror has had no discernible trajectory, and, unlike other military...

I hope in the Lord, I know He will lead in every step of the journey.

If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first line.”[Paris Review, interview with Jodi Daynard, The Art of Fiction No. 113, Winter II 1989]

We are meant to do the work of angels for we are often disguised from ourSelves.

I would hesitate to use the word ‘success’ in the way many people do. I don’t know that I would apply it to what I’ve done as though I have now reached the ultimate goal....

Once you feel nice about yourself, you have planted the first seed to develop self-confidence.

Who would you impress if the world was blind?

Oh, Mona, we’re all damned fools! Some of us just have more fun with it than others. Loosen up, dear! Don’t be so afraid to cry . . . or laugh, for that matter. Laugh...

And it occurred to me that the reason she makes it work, probably, is because she’s so comfortable with herself. And you know, that’s not such a bad notion, in the whole life-lesson business. Being...

Das Misstrauen gegen den Geist ist Misstrauen gegen den Menschen selbst, ist Mangel an Selbstvertrauen.

Your bags, clothes, shoes, jewelries, makeup, and hair shouldn’t determine your level of confidence in yourself; rather, let your moral values and principles be your reasons for self-confidence and unconditional self-love.You were created by a...

One should love oneself enough not to love oneself too much.

Pretend to give consent to the advice of others, but if you find it suitable,take it. But if out of the right view, despise and cast it away

Believing in yourself means more than simply believing in your own ultimate success; it means believing you will survive failures, disappointments, rejections, and criticism but still persist.

At every given moment we are absolutely perfect for what is required for our journey.

Gone are the days when 19-inch biceps would once command respect. A Jedi doesn’t walk around with their arms flexed and with a thousand yard stare in their eyes. They walk with a good posture,...

If you’re a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that’s dangerously close to arrogance.

To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.

Life has enough torturers as it is, without you going around moonlighting as a Grand Inquisitor against yourself.

Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success...

Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will

There are authors who write to communicate, there are authors who write to impress themselves.

I always agree with whom, who agree with me.

Confident people do not compete with others nor race for recognition to appraise themselves. They do not worry what others think of them. They do not struggle for affirmation. They know themselves well to be...

Attitude is that little thing that will make the most difference in the accomplishment of your goals.

Blackadder was fifty-four and had come to editing Ash out of pique. He was the son and grandson of Scottish schoolmasters. His grandfather recited poetry on firelight evenings: Marmion, Childe Harold, Ragnarok. His father sent...

The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.

Why had I wasted all my time pretending to be someone I wasn’t? I was tired, so very, very tired of standing on my own brakes. I felt…right. I felt free.

And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do...

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.

No matter what a woman looks like, if she’s confident, she’s sexy

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

There are two things essential if you want to enhance your Jedi self-confidence: 1/ belief that it is possible 2/ that self-help is the best help

You don’t walk away to prove your worth. You walk away because you allowed someone else to dictate your value and you found yourself believing it.

Be decisive and handle objections as they come, don’t relay on others much and don’t look to others to determine if you’re acting right or wrong. Do what feels right for you.

When you say, “I need more confidence,” what you’re really saying is, “I need those people over there to approve of me.”That is the desire to control other people and what they think. The first...

If I am not for myself who is for me?

To have self confidence is great, but to maintain self confidence is even greater

Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believethey should be. They become very self-abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well.

I would rather be damned by my honesty, than caged by my lies.

Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us, and regarding what we see with an open, kind and loving heart, is what I call Radical Acceptance. If we are holding back from any part of our...

You have to believe in yourself.