If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better.
Some people are called to be a good sailor. Some people have a calling to be a good tiller of the land. Some people are called to be a good friend. You have to be the best at whatever you are called at. Whatever you do. You ought to be the best at it - highly skilled. It's about confidence, not arrogance. You have to know that you're the best whether anybody else tells you or not. And that you'll be around, in one way or another, longer than anybody else. Somewhere inside of you, you have to believe that.
The thing I love about Dickens is the omniscient, omnipotent narrator, and the great confidence of the narrator, which marks 19th-century novelists in general and Dickens in particular.
It's good to give some of the kids a chance for playing time and some confidence. It doesn't do any good to leave starters out there just to beat a team by 60-70 points.
Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
The more confidence I have in each one of my stock picks, the fewer companies I need to own in my portfolio to feel comfortable.
In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Don't be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don't let the bastards get you down.
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
Conservatives, Republicans have to rebuild public confidence in what we say we are going to do. That is a high hurdle but it is an achievable hurdle.
Believe in yourself and have confidence that you can compete against all odds. Have a vision of what you'd like to accomplish and be able to articulate that vision.
Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
There's boldness in being assertive; there's strength and confidence.
It is always the time of hope, confidence and love. Everything passes; love remains. We will not be disappointed.
I share the same advice that my mom gave me - stay hydrated and sleep well. And that being a beautiful person on the inside is what really matters.
We must believe in ourselves or no one will believe in us.
Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.
Self-esteem should have nothing to do with what you look like – if you exude genuine confidence, people will be swept into it. You have to be able to hold yourself.
Ignorance and confidence are constant companions
