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Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
Oct 1, 2025
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.
The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.
If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
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 a light from within.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
Look the world straight in the eye.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?
We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
The best revenge is the massive success.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
You can have anything you want
You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself.
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.