To remind you that who you already
are is pretty incredible--and inspire
you to become even more
awesome--

here are 50 quotes.

1. "The way to develop self-
confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of
successful experiences behind
you." William Jennings Bryan 2. "If you
hear a voice within you
say 'you cannot paint,' then by
all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." Vincent Van
Gogh 3. "Always be yourself and have
faith in yourself. Do not go out
and look for a successful
personality and try to duplicate
it." Bruce Lee 4. "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."
Mark Victor Hansen 5. "You wouldn't worry so much
about what others think of you
if you realized how seldom
they do." Eleanor Roosevelt 6. "Low self-
confidence isn't a life
sentence. Self-confidence can be learned, practiced, and
mastered--just like any other
skill. Once you master it,
everything in your life will change for
the better." Barrie
Davenport 7. "Once we believe in ourselves,
we can risk curiosity, wonder,
spontaneous delight, or any
experience that reveals the
human spirit." e.e. cummings 8. "Trust
yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy
to live with all your life. Make
the most of yourself by fanning
the tiny, inner sparks of
possibility into flames of achievement."
Golda Meir 9. "One important key to success
is self-confidence. An
important key to self-
confidence is preparation."
Arthur Ashe 10. "It is confidence in our
bodies, minds, and spirits that allows
us to keep looking for new
adventures." Oprah Winfrey 11. "To be
yourself in a world that
is constantly trying to make
you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
Ralph Waldo Emerson 12. "But failure
has to be an option
in art and in exploration--
because it's a leap of faith. And
no important endeavor that
required innovation was done
without risk. You have to be willing to
take those risks ... "
James Cameron 13. "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 light from within." Elisabeth Kubler-Ross 14.
"Confidence comes not from
always being right but from
not fearing to be wrong." Peter
T. Mcintyre 15. "Argue for your
limitations and, sure enough, they're
yours." Richard Bach 16. "The courage to
be is the
courage to accept oneself, in
spite of being unacceptable."
Paul Tillich 17. "If we all did the things we are
capable of doing, we would
literally astound ourselves."
Thomas Alva Edison 18. Shyness has a
strange element
of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is
truly important to other
people. " Andre Dubus 19. "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. We ask
ourselves, 'Who am I to be
brilliant, gorgeous, talented,
fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be?" Marianne
Williamson 20. "Talk to yourself like you
would to someone you love."
Brene Brown 21. "Trust yourself. You
know
more than you think you do." Dr. Benjamin Spock 22. "Successful
people have fear,
successful people have doubts,
and successful people have
worries. They just don't let
these feelings stop them." T. Harv Eker 23. "You can have anything
you
want if you are willing to give
up the belief that you can't
have it." Dr. Robert Anthony 24. "It is not
the mountain we conquer, but ourselves." Sir
Edmund Hillary 25. "To love oneself is
the
beginning of a life-long
romance." Oscar Wilde 26. "I had to
grow to love my body. I did not have a good
self-image at first. Finally it
occurred to me, I'm either
going to love me or hate me.
And I chose to love myself. Then
everything kind of sprung from there. Things that I
thought weren't attractive
became sexy. Confidence
makes you sexy." Queen
Latifah 27. "You yourself, as much as
anyone in the entire universe
deserve your love and
affection." Buddha 28. "Inaction breeds doubt and
fear. Action breeds confidence
and courage. If you want to
conquer fear, do not sit home
and think about it. Go out and
get busy." Dale Carnegie 29. "Optimism is the faith that
leads to achievement. Nothing
can be done without hope and
confidence." Helen Keller 30. "Nothing
can stop the man
with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the
man with the wrong mental
attitude." Thomas Jefferson 31.
"Confidence is a habit that can
be developed by acting as if you already had the
confidence you desire to
have." Brian Tracy 32. "When I started
counting my
blessings, my whole life turned
around." Willie Nelson 33. "If you are insecure, guess
what? The rest of the world is,
too. Do not overestimate the
competition and
underestimate yourself. You
are better than you think." T. Harv Eker 34. "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." Alan Cohen 35. "To anyone
that ever told you
you're no good ... They're no
better." Hayley Williams 36. "Always
remember you are braver than you believe,
stronger than you seem, and
smarter than you think."
Christopher Robin 37. "You have no
control over
other people's taste, so focus on staying true to your own."
Tim Gunn 38. "No one can make you feel
inferior without your consent."
Eleanor Roosevelt 39. "The moment you
doubt
whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do
it." J.M. Barrie 40. "It's a dead-end street
if you sit
around waiting for someone
else to tell you you're okay."
Michael Pitt 41. "I think that the power is the
principle. The principle of
moving forward, as though
you have the confidence to
move forward, eventually
gives you confidence when you look back and see what
you've done." Robert Downey,
Jr. 42. "If you're presenting yourself
with confidence, you can pull
off pretty much anything."
Katy Perry 43. "Twenty years from now you
will be more disappointed by
the things you didn't do than
by the ones you did do. So
throw off the bowlines. Sail
away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your
sail. Explore. Dream. Discover."
Mark Twain 44. "I've finally stopped
running
away from myself. Who else is
there better to be?" Goldie Hawn 45. "Don't be satisfied with stories,
how things have gone with
others. Unfold your own myth."
Rumi 46. "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." Jodi Picoult 47. "As soon as you
trust yourself,
you will know how to live."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 48. "You cannot be lonely if you
like the person you're alone
with." Wayne Dyer 49. "Don't waste your
energy
trying to change opinions ... do
your thing, and don't care if they like it." Tina Fey 50. "Pride is holding
your head up
when everyone around you
has theirs bowed. Courage is
what makes you do it." Bryce
Courtenay