Quotes and Sayings about Self-Confidence (Page 2)

Don't let anyone tell you what you can and can't do or achieve. Do what you want to do and be who you want to be!

I live as I choose or I will not live at all.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.

Recently I was driving my daughter to school and she said to me: "Mama, I'm the ugliest girl I know. I look like a boy with long hair.' And my brain went to 'Oh my god, you're six. Where is this coming from? Who said this? Can I kick a sex-year-old's ass?' But I didn't say anything and instead I went home and I made a PowerPoint presentation for her and in that presentation were androgynous rock stars and artists that live their truth, are probably made fun of every day of their life and carry on and wave their flag and inspire the rest of us. And these are artists like Michael Jackson and David Bowie and Freddie Mercury and Annie Lennox and Prince and Janis Joplin and George Michael, Elton John. So many artists, her eyes glazed over. But then I said, 'I really want to know why you feel this way about yourself?' And she said 'Well, I look like a boy.' I said, 'What do you think I look like?' And she said, 'You're beautiful.' And I was like, 'Well, thanks!' But I said, 'When people make fun of me, that's what they use. They say that I look like a boy, or I'm too masculine or I have too many opinions, my body is too strong. Do you see me growing my hair?' She said, 'No, Mama.' I said, 'Do you see me changing my body?"
'No, Mama."
'Do you see me changing the way I present myself to the world?"
'No, Mama."
'Do you see me selling out arenas all over the world?"
'Yes, Mama."
So baby-girl, we don't change. We take the gravel and the shell and we make a pearl and we help other people to change, so that they can see more kinds of beauty. And to all the artists here, I'm so inspired by all of you. Thank you for being your true selves and for lighting the way for us. I'm so inspired by you guys. There's so much rad happening right now in music. Keep doing it. Keep shining for the rest of us to see. And you, my darling girl, are beautiful and I love you.

Don't cross oceans for people, who wouldn't jump puddles for you.

People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.

If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much.

If you end up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.

You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

Don't Waste Your Time Living Someone Else's Life.

If you don't believe in yourself, nobody else will.

I don't wanna be Michael Jordan, I don't wanna be Bird or Isiah. I don't wanna be any of those guys. You know when my career is over, I wanna look in the mirror and say: "I did it my way!"

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.

If you act like you know what you're going, you can do anything you want - except neurosurgery.

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk!

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

I wouldn't change myself for anybody. I am who I am; people accept me, or they don't. I have my strengths and my weaknesses, which I can try to improve upon, of course. I'm still not the finished product.

If I respect myself and require that others deal with me respectfully, I send out signals and behave in ways that increase the likelihood that others will respond appropriately. When they do, I am reinforced and confirmed in my initial belief. If I lack self-respect and consequently accept discourtesy, abuse, or exploitation from others as natural, I unconsciously transmit this, and some people will treat me at my self-estimate. When this happens, and I submit to it, my self-respect deteriorates still more.

Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you're doing. If you're not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.

Follow your instincts and do not let other people's opinion of you become your opinion of yourself.

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours!

Don't waste so much time thinking about how much you weigh. There is no more mind-numbing, boring, idiotic, self-destructive diversion from the fun of living.

Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.

Ever loved someone so much you would do anything for them? Yeah, well make that someone yourself and do whatever the hell you want!

Who you are inside is what helps you make and do everything in life.

She had blue skin,
And so did he.
He kept it hid
And so did she.
They searched for blue
Their whole life through,
Then passed right by-
And never knew.

There's no sense in going out of your way, just to get somebody to like you.

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.

If you have confidence, you can pull off anything.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do - you have to keep moving forward.

You have to believe in yourself, that's the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world.

Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world…if you do so, you are insulting yourself.

I don't think anyone knows as much about what's right for me as I do.

I don't want anyone to believe in me more than me.

There is only one me.

There's always going to be somebody who takes a dislike to you and you can't waste time worrying about it.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

Confidence is very sexy. You could be not cute at all and have such confidence.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

I'm secure in who I am. I don't need the validation of those that would say, you have to be a certain thing in order to be accepted. I'm comfortable going against the grain if I need to.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

This is the problem with the world today: Nobody wants to take risks, to risk being themselves.

The ego is a fascinating monster.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

Confidence is not, 'They will like me'. Confidence instead is, 'I'll be fine if they don't'.