#confidence

But we can turn challenges into opportunities if we look outwards to the realities of the global economy and modernise our internal institutions in ways that will equip Europe to meet that challenge and create confidence amongst the public. ↗

— John Hutton

#challenge #challenges #confidence #create #economy

Before the season begins, I had even damaged some frames, but Ken did not hold it against me and kept all his confidence. He was the one who incontestably changed my life, because without his help, I do not know what I will have become. ↗

— Jacky Ickx

#because #become #before #begins #changed

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

#self-awareness #self-confidence #self-esteem #self-love #change

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#courage

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. ↗

— Rumi

#creativity #empowerment #independence #inspirational-stories #self-confidence

Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#humor #ignorance #knowledge #humor

If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you. ↗

— A.A. Milne

#think

And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#secrets #sharing-secrets #words

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind. ↗

— Bernard M. Baruch

#be-yourself #confidence #fitting-in #individuality #those-who-matter

Liberals do not appear to address potential solutions with anything like the far right's aura of God-given self-confidence. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#anything #appear #aura #far #god-given