“Proving himself to himself was no small matter.”
“Being a slave to a fellow human being, many times, starts with giving his opinion more weight than you should.”
“Her feelings of fear and helplessness had reached such a pitch that they were suddenly transformed into their opposites. Having overcome them, she felt corageous and self-confident enough to tackle any power on earth; more precisely, she had ceased to worry about herself.”
“A person with less knowledge and more self-confidence (which is primarily a way of thinking and acting) will often run circles around a person with more knowledge and less self-confidence; which means that self-confidence has the upper hand to knowledge when it comes to acting in the world. It has been interesting to see many of my star academic students struggle with teaching in the real world, while others who were less qualified in the academic field but had more self-confidence have gone out and positively affected many more people through their teaching.”
“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.”
“You don t need to be rich to have high confidence, all you do need is to be proud of yourself and there you ll go with confidence.”
“Self-confidence can be defined in two sentences. (1) I trust myself to face life’s challenges and (2) I trust myself to follow my dreams and goals.”
“Self-confidence is not a fixed way of being. People are not born with certain levels of self-confidence, it can be acquired, and it can be lost.”
“Self-confidence is built from the inside out and has little or nothing to do with outside circumstances.”
“This time around I was so lonely that I was forced to be face to face with myself. Realizing at the end of the day I only have me and I didn t seem to like my own company. I decided to I had to make myself into someone I can live with.”
“Why yes, I can, said Midas Mulligan, when he was asked whether he could name a person more evil than the man with a heart closed to pity. The man who uses another s pity for him as a weapon.”
“Yes, she d made a mistake... but she wasn t going to be bullied. You couldn t let boys go around raining on your lava and ogling other people s watercolors.”
“You aren t ugly, my dear. Do not listen to anyone who would say so, even yourself.”
“It s better to dance like a fool, than to stand around like an idiot.”
“You don’t care what anyone thinks about you,’ he said. ‘That’s crazy,’ she said. ‘I care what everyone thinks about me.’ ‘I can’t tell,’ he said. ‘You just seem like yourself, no matter what’s happening around you. My grandmother would say you’re comfortable in your own skin.”
“When we are true to ourselves, all that is toxic and burdensome simply falls away”
“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”