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Self-confidence

«But the real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself, have self confindence, and try to be secure in your decisions and thoughts.»
«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.»
«If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.»
«Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.»
«God helps those who help themselves.»
«It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.»
«A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.»
«If I am to speak for ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now»
«I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark.»
Author: Angelina Jolie (Actress) | About: Movies, Self-confidence | Keywords: detach, One World
«I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.»
Author: Bob Dylan | About: Self-confidence | Keywords: musician

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