Just be your own great self, not "better" or "worse" than anyone else

Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale

If you have no confidence in self,
you are twice defeated in the race of life.
With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Confidence isn’t thinking you are better than others,
it’s realizing that you have no reason to compare yourself to anyone else.
-Maryam Hasnaa

If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson

With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb

Just be your own great self, not "better" or "worse" than anyone else.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Ignore Your Critics

Believe In Yourself

My Wish

Make Your Dreams Come True
        

Self-Confidence is the First Requisite

If you have no confidence in self,
you are twice defeated in the race of life.
With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis

With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson

Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb

Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Further reading: Believe In Yourself

Ignore Your Critics

Make Your Dreams Come True

My Wish
        

Fears vs. Dreams

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams.
Think not about your frustrations,
but about your unfulfilled potential.
Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in,
but with what it is still possible for you to do.
- Pope John XXIII

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure,
but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
- Erich Fromm

People are never more insecure than when they become
obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
- Norman Cousins

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
- Dag Hammarskjold

Further reading: How to Stop Worrying

Welcome the Unknown

The Edge of All We Know

Life: Mystery and Riddle

Potential

Life is full of beauty. Notice it.
Notice the bumble bee, the small child,
and the smiling faces.
Smell the rain, and feel the wind.
Live your life to the fullest potential,
and fight for your dreams.
- Ashley Smith

There comes that mysterious meeting in life
when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,
igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
- Rusty Berkus

With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it.
- Simon Travaglia

Further reading: Living Your Greatest Life
 
Your Dream

Paths to Joy and Service