John C. Maxwell Quotes

Often really what you need is someone who will believe in you, who will encourage you to believe in yourself.

Affirm people. Affirm your children. Believe in them, not in what you see but in what you don't see - their potential.

I know what it's like to feel that fear and the need of affirmation and appreciation. To build confidence in yourself is the toughest thing.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I'd wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, 'You're going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.'

Obviously, you have to find the confidence within yourself to pursue your ideas, but there's nothing wrong with having people around you who are going to say, 'I think that's a great idea,' or, 'I think you're doing the right thing.'

I'd be lying if I said there weren't times when I hadn't lost a little bit of confidence. But the people around me, close to me, were the ones to tell me I'd been playing slightly differently, not as confidently as I had been.

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.

I am the product of those who believed in me.

There are people who give you the confidence that you're lacking and once you have confidence, you're free and finally you can let out what's inside of you.

Lavish praise on people and people will flourish; criticize people and they'll shrivel up.

I wish they would teach it in schools: Give people the belief that they are going to do well. A lot of people are really talented and scared to follow their talent because you don't know where it's going.

A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

The most powerful predictable people builders are praise and encouragement.

People pay to see others believe in themselves.

Then you came along and helped me believe in myself again.

Encouraging a child means that one or more of the following critical life messages are coming through, either by word or by action: I believe in you, I trust you, I know you can handle this, You are listened to, You are cared for, You are very important to me

A lot of people need an infusion of confidence.

To help people believe they can achieve victory, put them in a position to experience small successes.

I couldn't even speak in front of a group of students when I was in high school. I could barely do that sort of thing. But once I started doing the "YES!" chant down to the ring and people would do it with me, it allowed me to feel more comfortable.

It is a mistake to look at someone who is self assertive and say, "It's easy for her, she has good self-esteem." One of the ways you build self-esteem is by being self-assertive when it is not easy to do so. There are always times when self-assertiven ess requires courage, no matter how high your self-esteem.

If you don't believe in yourself, who will?' ~Maybeck

The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.