Self Assurance Quotes

In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

One of my rules is never to look sideways at what other people are doing but instead, do what I feel is right.

A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.

I swear by the self-assurance with which elderly men sitting in public tilt sideways to allow the gas to escape loudly.

I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance of their enemies, but the complacency of their friends, are precious catalysts for change.

If you have no competition there's no need to debate.

Always in life an idea starts small, it is only a sapling idea, but the vines will come and they will try to choke your idea so it cannot grow and it will die and you will never know you had a big idea, an idea so big it could have grown thirty meters through the dark canopy of leaves and touched the face of the sky.' He looked at me and continued. 'The vines are people who are afraid of originality, of new thinking. Most people you encounter will be vines; when you are a young plant they are very dangerous.' His piercing blue eyes looked into mine.' Always listen to yourself, Peekay. It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention. If you are wrong, no matter, you have learned something and you grow stronger. If you are right, you have taken another step toward a fulfilling life.