No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

I wish I could show you…the astonishing light of your own being.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

With greater confidence in yourself and your abilities, you will set bigger goals, make bigger plans and commit yourself to achieving objectives that today you only dream about.

Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.

When you 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.’

I’ve finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?

Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety and no doubt – just absolute confidence in yourself.

You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

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

For God’s sakes, quit worrying about your next job. Just do the best you can at the job you have now, and the offers will come. And when they do, if you have confidence in yourself you don’t have to feel that you can’t turn it down if it isn’t quite right for you because you fear you’ll never get another offer. You will. Wait for the right opportunity, and turn down all the rest. It will make all the difference.

Bottom line: If you love yourself, it will all work out.

Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.

Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.

It’s easy to say young people should believe in themselves, but the number one thing is recognizing that it’s a journey, that you have to build confidence in yourself.

Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself.

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

Wouldn’t it be powerful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do just about anything if you knew it would make you happy? This is precisely how much life loves you and wants you to nurture yourself. The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.

It’s a frightening thing to act on your opinions. You’ve got to find confidence in yourself, not in what others think of you. I’m still trying to separate how I see myself from how I’m perceived. It’s not easy, but it’s worth it.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

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. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.

If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

One of the most important qualities for any young athlete is the ability to believe in oneself. If you have confidence in yourself, in your teammates and your coach, you will succeed.

You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

It [boxing] helps my hand-eye coordination, my stamina, my footwork, and it gives me that competitive edge and drive. And in the ring it’s mano-a-mano. So it helps you build that arrogance, that cockiness, that confidence in yourself that the man that stands in front of you isn’t going to beat you, and that translates to the court.

You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

I always want to do the best that I can with the opportunities that God has given me. The only way that you can possibly do that is to give yourself a chance to go as high as you possibly can. If you don’t have the confidence in yourself and you don’t have the desire to compete and move ahead, than you start to get stagnant….If I fall a little bit short, then I’m still farther than if I hadn’t reached at all.

You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.