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Don't let your negative self beliefs haunt you out of taking action. You owe it to yourself to live the life that you desire.
Sep 10, 2025
Hopefully I've shown them (fellow cyclists) you just need some self-belief and that you need to take your destiny into your own hands instead of waiting for it. You have to go out and force it. You need to go out and take life, and shape your life and destiny the way you need it. I hope I can pass that message along.
I had a massive amount of self-belief when I did stand-up.
Art glows with faith even in its weakest parts. At every moment, writing is an act of self-confidence – the sheerest, most determined, most stubborn self-belief. You CAN have faith and doubt at the same time; the most insecure writer on the planet has faith that shines just as bright as her doubt, and she deserves props for that. It might be hidden deep, she might not feel it and you might not see it, but it’s in there, or she wouldn’t be able to write.
If one asks for success and prepares for failure, one will get the situation one has prepared for.
Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
The depth of your belief and the strength of your conviction determines the power of your personality.
Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
The confidence you need is belief in your potential. If you see world-class potential in yourself, you'll put in the effort. If you don't see the potential, you won't put in the effort and you'll wait for the performance, and the performance always follows the belief in self.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
To succeed, we must first believe that we can.
My hero is me. Why? Because I was a poor little kid who was told, `Hey stupid, can`t you speak English?` Now all those people work for me. Despite whatever circumstances I came across, I was always able to rise to the top and there`s only one way to do that - by being selfish, but also by believing in yourself. Belief is self-knowing. Even Yoda out of Star Wars said, `Do or do not. There is no try.
Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself (belief in which is the chief act of faith of the scientist).
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
You know I need that cockiness, the self-belief, arrogance, swagger, whatever you want to call it, I need that on the golf course to bring the best out of myself. So you know once I leave the golf course, you know that all gets left there.
The key to successful business is self belief and application.
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.
The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen
Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.
We are the ones we've been waiting for.
The people that I admire have a wonderful balance of self-belief and humility.
we are the ones we have been waiting for
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
If you think you can - you can!
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Without self belief nothing can be accomplished. With it, nothing is impossible.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found- in himself.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Sourav's greatest asset is his ability to communicate. He is a naturally very confident person. He encourages his team, is a great motivator and a born captain. He is not the media's blue eyed boy because he is a very straightforward person, who never minces his words, instead he talks in a no nonsense manner to the press. He shares an extremely healthy rapport with his teammates. His leadership skills are also vouched for by the youngsters in the team. He has phenomenal brand value. He's the new-age Indian, an aggressive go-getter, full of self-belief, determination.