“Self-trust is not a special talent or gift. It is a skill we learn and relearn. It is a practice we must decide to engage in. Every day.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.”— Melissa Etheridge, amazon.com
“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves it's amazing what they can accomplish.”— Sam Walton, goodreads.com
“Too much of me was lost in the vision of what somebody else wanted me to be.”— William Chapman, williamchapmanwritings.tumblr.com
“I think she’s brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was listening.”— Lauren DeStefano, amazon.com
“You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.”— Audre Lorde, amazon.com
“People may tell you they believe in you but they will never do it for you, you’re the only who is capable of holding your own hand in the journey of your life, people come and go but you will always have yourself, so you must find a way to believe in it and have unwavering faith that you can become…”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“But when you’re consumed with all the people you’re not, you forget who you are and who you can be, you forget that you could be someone else’s idea of perfection and you forget that you embody exactly what someone else wants or what someone else is looking for.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“If you ever feel like you’re not good enough for something, it’s because you’re unaware of your own potential and your own value. And when you’re unaware of who you could be, you’re limited to who you think you are, to who people told you were, to who society tells you should be.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“You're worthy of greatness, even if you don't see it yet.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com
“Some people say I have attitude – maybe I do…but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.”— Venus Williams, keepinspiring.me
“You playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightening about shrinking so that others won’t feel uncomfortable around you. As you let your own light shine, you indirectly give others permission to do the same.”— Marianne Williamson, amazon.com