Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oprah Winfrey

Don?t back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.

Oprah Winfrey

Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion.

Margaret Thatcher

Putting the World to Rights

Mark Twain

There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

Pablo Picasso

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.

Paul Cezanne

I should have wished to possess the intellectual equilibrium that characterizes you and permits you to achieve without fail the desired end... Chance has not favoured me with an equal self-assurance, it is the only regret I have about things of this earth.

Madonna Ciccone

I don't take drugs. I never did. All the feelings that drugs are supposed to produce in you - confidence or energy - I can produce naturally.

Lucille Ball

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

Lizz Winstead

By some fluke, my folks forgot to ask me the question most crucial to ensuring a lifetime of self-doubt: 'What if you fail?

Mia Hamm

I was given a tremendous gift in terms of athleticism. Maybe it was because I wasn't so confident in other areas.

Mark Twain

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.

Mark Twain

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Confidence is conqueror of men; victorious both over them and in them; The iron will of one stout heart shall make a thousand quail; A feeble dwarf, dauntlessly resolved, will turn the tide of battle, And rally to a nobler strife the giants that had fled.

Ovid

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Mary Wortley Montagu

You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.

Michel de Montaigne

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Michel de Montaigne

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

Michel de Montaigne

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

Michel de Montaigne

I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.

Michel de Montaigne

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

Michel de Montaigne

It needs courage to be afraid.

Marianne Williamson

We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone.

Marianne Williamson

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.

Marianne Williamson

We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.

Marianne Williamson

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

Marianne Williamson

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

Marianne Williamson

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

Marianne Williamson

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

Marianne Williamson

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

Francois Rabelais

I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.

Christina Aguilera

I think that whatever size or shape body you have, it's important to embrace it and get down!