Tim Ferriss Quotes

If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.

It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.

People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.

I don't think I should be underestimated.

Everyone around me has more confidence in me than I do in myself.

When you raise your opinion of yourself and what you are capable of it has a decided influence on what you do.

Never underestimate yourself

It's not just politicians who underestimate us; we underestimate ourselves.

The size of a person is more important than the size of the problem.

Self confidence plays an important part in every aspect of man's life.

In order for me to achieve... I had to regard myself greater than what I was. In other words I had to fake it until I make it.

Self-esteem is a huge piece of my work. You have to believe it's possible and believe in yourself. Because after you've decided what you want, you have to believe it's possible, and possible for you, not just for other people. Then you need to seek out models, mentors, and coaches.

The uplifters are forever running around telling blockheads they would do better if they would believe in themselves. But they already do. That is why they are blockheads.

I don't think of myself as a terribly confident person. But I have a survival mechanism that was instilled in me by my mother.

There's no such thing as lack of confidence. You either have it or you don't.

Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-brake on.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

I don't have the confidence to be a personality.

Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.

I'm not an insecure person, per se, but I just never saw myself as the girl who walks into a place and everybody goes, 'Wow.'

Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Maybe you just don't see your own beauty.

When I go out to play, I still believe I'm as good as anyone out there. I don't have to prove anyone wrong. I know what I've done and how well I can play.

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.