You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions . do your thing, and don't care if they like it.
Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.
People who want the most approval get the least and the people who need approval the least get the most.
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.
There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.
Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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.
You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.
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.
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
It's a dead-end street if you sit around waiting for someone else to tell you you're okay.
It is confidence in our bodies, minds, and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.