#confidence

Great change doesn't come with official endorsement. ↗

— Patti Digh

#inspiration #life-paralysis #self-confidence #change

When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges. ↗

— Terence Stamp

#billy #certainty #comes #confidence #edges

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. ↗

— Marcus Garvey

#defeated #life #race #self #twice

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. ↗

— Potter Stewart

#confidence #itself #lack #reflects #society

I think 'tradition' is in the past - and how can someone really 'fear' a color? A man may prefer navy to turquoise, but a self assured man could wear any color and he knows that. It's a distinction of confidence. ↗

— Jean Pigozzi

#assured #color #confidence #could #distinction

When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#confidence #art

Do we take less pride in the possession of our home because its walls were built by some unknown carpenter, its tapestries woven by some unknown weaver on a far Oriental shore, in some antique time? No. We show our home to our friends with the pride as if it were our home, which it is. Why then should we take less pride when reading a book written by some long-dead author? Is it not our book just as much, or even more so, than theirs? So the landowner says, ‘Look at my beautiful home! Isn’t it fine?’ And not, ‘Look at the home so-and-so has built.’ Thus we shouldn’t cry, ‘Look what so-and-so has written. What a genius so-and-so is!’ But rather, ‘Look at what I have read! Am I not a genius? Have I not invented these pages? The walls of this universe, did I not build? The souls of these characters, did I not weave? ↗

— Roman Payne

#carpenter #courage #esteem #genius #happiness

Laughing in the face of danger doesn't negate the fear, it simply enables you to smile at it. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#confidence #courage #danger #fear #fearless

There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bigotry #challenges #confidence #conflict-resolution #courage

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions. ↗

— Earl Gray Stevens

#art