Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
Tennessee WilliamsWhat did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.
Bob DylanTrue nobility is exempt from fear.
Marcus Tullius CiceroJudges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
Francis BaconThe first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
John RuskinEverything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
Wayne DyerUnless someone wants to look funny, I’ll not recommend anyone to copy my bowling action. But on a serious note, with the confidence that I have got from the amount of runs I have been scoring, when I’m thrown the ball to bowl, I am pretty sure of what I have to do. I may not be the most attractive to watch while bowling, but I can be effective.
Virat KohliWhere globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.
Nelson MandelaI think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.
Taylor SwiftI wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.
Desmond TutuWe do not need the empire to give us anything.
Fidel CastroI’m very good at what I do, and I don’t turn my hand to something unless I’m very good at it, frankly.
David BowieOn every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.
Barack ObamaContraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny.
Ruth Bader GinsburgWhen you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.
Dolores HuertaI want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.
DJ KhaledThough she be but little, she is fierce.
William ShakespeareYou might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Napoleon HillAll you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
Mark TwainYou may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Maya AngelouBe miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.
Wayne DyerNo one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.
Julius CaesarThere are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.
Nelson MandelaNever bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Helen KellerThe risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.
Kanye WestA man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.
Elbert HubbardWe are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
Stephen CoveySelf-belief and hard work will always earn you success.
Virat KohliPeace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch SpinozaBut even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.
Bob DylanThe only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Mahatma GandhiWomen fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn’t try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.
Vivienne WestwoodI’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.
Dolly PartonClothing & fashion are kind of my security blanket, almost.
Billie EilishWhen the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘
Lao TzuThe more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.
Maya AngelouYou know, when Michael Jackson does the moonwalk, he’s showing off! When Prince or Hendrix do a guitar solo, it’s confidence! I would hate to be at a show and some nervous wreck is sweating up there and doesn’t feel like he deserves to be there.
Bruno MarsYou’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.
Joel OsteenI’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ‚em out, I pick the round.
Muhammad AliWhy don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.
Joel OsteenI don’t think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I’m enjoying something, I think of how meager her rewards were and how much courage, in a way, she needed to go on living.
Alice MunroWomen feel empowered when they can do the things that are supposed to be only for men, you know? It breaks boundaries, it’s liberating, and it’s empowering when you feel like, ‚Well, I can do that, too.‘
RihannaFeminism… I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, ‚Free to be You and Me.‘
Ruth Bader GinsburgA man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.
Marilyn MonroeI wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy’s valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.
Alexander the GreatIs fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.
Eckhart TolleCowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
William ShakespeareHow one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don’t do for us.
Joyce MeyerAs a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamI have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.
Matthew McConaugheyIt’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
Elizabeth KennyFear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
Mahatma GandhiLet us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
John F. KennedyCourage is knowing what not to fear.
PlatoBut by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.
Ho Chi MinhWhich government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe’ve been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can’t do – about what is impossible.
Wayne DyerI was the first woman to burn my bra – it took the fire department four days to put it out.
Dolly PartonAs our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
Thomas JeffersonEvery man should know, if you’re comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always worries about what the girls think, what the guys think. If you like it, do it.
Tom Brady