Eric Hoffer Quotes

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.

Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st.

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

I'm not a wimpy kid at all. I don't care what other people think - I only care what I think about myself.

I was always rather outspoken. I worried about what people thought of me but there really wasn't room for a lot of self-doubt.

Fighters display two things. They display confidence, or they display a look that says, 'I'm not sure.'

I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.

I am totally fearless! Well, of course, I'm not totally fearless. I worry constantly and obsess over things, but I just don't let fear stand in the way of doing something that I really want to do.

I wish I had more confidence.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

A timid question will always receive a confident answer.

I used to worry I'd make a fool of myself, but I don't care what anyone thinks of me anymore.

The biggest thing I've learned is just to not doubt myself as much as I do. Having self-doubt is definitely necessary, but it's about not letting it get in the way. When it turns into fear, you run into problems.

Sometimes you can doubt your own abilities to do certain things. We get nervous, we get stuck, or we're not sure if we can live up to what we want to do.

I think everybody, especially every woman that you speak to, has gone through periods of their life where they feel uncertain or insecure. But I've been fortunate in my own life never to have gone through extended periods of crippling insecurity.

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

You can definitely notice a girl who has confidence versus one who's thinking, 'How are they judging me?'

At 13, I learned what it meant to walk into a room and not care what everybody thinks of you.

I have an unremovable stain of self-confidence.

I've never been that person who has a lot of self-doubt.

I do feel that I myself wouldn't have had, in my life looking back, the courage to go out and say, 'I'm a good actress.' So I think I'm one of those people that needed to be seen by someone else to see myself.

The moment you fear, you are nobody.

If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.

You want to be a hero? Learn to create certainty in the face of fear.