Play to your strengths.""I haven’t got any," said Harry, before he could stop himself."Excuse me," growled Moody, "you’ve got strengths if I say you’ve got them. Think now. What are you best at?
— Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Quotes About Confidence
Bertrand Russell defended confidence in unusual views: do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. Pablo Picasso recalled his mother telling him that as a soldier he would be a general and as a monk he would be the pope. John Lennon accepted being called an egomaniac if it meant believing in what he does. Henrik Ibsen held that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
Others warned about confidence that is misplaced. Leo Tolstoy described a man who spoke with such self-confidence that no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid. George Washington advised being courteous to all but intimate with few, and testing those few well before giving them your confidence. Aristotle described courage as a mean with regard to fear and confidence. Bruce Lee warned against letting negative thoughts into the mind, calling them weeds that choke confidence.
Others warned about confidence that is misplaced. Leo Tolstoy described a man who spoke with such self-confidence that no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid. George Washington advised being courteous to all but intimate with few, and testing those few well before giving them your confidence. Aristotle described courage as a mean with regard to fear and confidence. Bruce Lee warned against letting negative thoughts into the mind, calling them weeds that choke confidence.
I have, as it were, constructed a lay-figure for the purposes of a demonstration which I desired to be as rapid and as impressive as possible.
— New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
Yet there’s no one to beat you | No one t’ defeat you | ’Cept the thoughts of yourself feeling bad
— The Lyrics: 1961-2012
Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence.
— Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters
You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
— An Enemy of the People
If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it.
— Northanger Abbey
He had the confidence of a man who had never been wounded.
— Ninety-Three
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.
— Meditations
Self-confidence depends on environment: one does not speak in the same tone in the drawing room than in the kitchen.
— Madame Bovary
His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.
— The Ugly Duckling
When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true
Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.
Glamour" is assurance. It is a kind of knowing that you are all right in every way mentally and physically and in appearance and that whatever the occasion or the situation you are equal to it.
The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them
Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.
— Othello
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
— The Essential Rumi
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
— Faust: First Part
I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.
— Marginalia
Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
— Oedipus Rex
I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
— New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
— Meditations
I laugh at myself. I don't take myself completely seriously. I think that's another quality that people have to hold on to... you have to laugh, especially at yourself.