37 Quotes Tagged: self-confidence

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

We are always the same age inside.

To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passion for work, and enjoyment of life — in short, without you, my life is no life.

[Written to his wife, Mileva]

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

Tis in ourselves that we are thus
or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which
our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant
nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up
thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs, or
distract it with many, either to have it sterile
with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the
power and corrigible authority of this lies in our
wills. If the balance of our lives had not one
scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the
blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us
to most preposterous conclusions: but we have
reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal
stings, our unbitted lusts, whereof I take this that
you call love to be a sect or scion.

Ho sempre voluto farcela da solo, con i miei sforzi, senza chiedere nulla a nessuno.

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

Ask yourself: what is it, that if I believed it down to my core, would change everything?

Be an Encourager: When you encourage others, you boost their self-esteem, enhance their self-confidence, make them work harder, lift their spirits and make them successful in their endeavors. Encouragement goes straight to the heart and is always available. Be an encourager. Always.