“There are times when the world is rearranging itself that the right person can change the world.”
Source: The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness
“Believe you can and you will be halfway there.”
Source: The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness
“If we fail to instill a fixed sense of confidence in our children, we will raise handicapped children who have no handicap other than the conviction that they believe they do.”
“Perfection is the enemy of authenticity.”
Source: Presenting for Humans: Insights for Speakers on Ditching Perfection and Creating Connection
“If poverty defines greatness, then become the poorest person on earth, in terms of weakness and bigotry. And if wealth defines glory, then become the wealthiest person on earth, in terms of courage, confidence and reasoning.”
Source: We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism
“Lack of independent thinking is lacking in confidence.”
Source: 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity
“These mental and physical components of self belief are closely interlinked. They are used to slowly interweave the personal narratives that very effectively create a powerful sense of identity.”
Source: The Sniper Mind: Eliminate Fear, Deal with Uncertainty, and Make Better Decisions
“Confidence, even when under pressure, has a way of turning an impossible situation into just another challenge to be met.”
Source: The Sniper Mind: Eliminate Fear, Deal with Uncertainty, and Make Better Decisions
“Confidence is not what others think about you, it's what you think about yourself”
Source: Voice of thoughts
“He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. Petra Cotes, for her part, loved him more and more as she felt his love increasing, and that was how in the ripeness of autumn she began to believe once more in the youthful superstition that poverty was the servitude of love. Both looked back then on the wild revelry, the gaudy wealth, and the unbridled fornication as an annoyance and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude. Madly in love after so many years of sterile complicity, they enjoyed the miracle of living each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out people they kept on blooming like little children and playing together like dogs.”
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude