Gwen John Quotes

One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.

Each woman needs to know herself and think that the clothes are here to make her more beautiful, because the person is more important than the clothes.

Never mind what the 'people' think of you! They may overestimate or underestimate you! Until they discover your real worth, your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself. You can succeed if nobody else believes it; but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.

Believe in yourself and try not to take anything personally.

In my heart I know what kind of person I am, and that's good enough.

If I'd trusted myself and listened to myself all the times that I ignored myself, I would have been fine. But everyone has to learn their lesson, and now I've got it.

Confidence is on one side of the line, and self-belief is on another. People all think those are mixed up.

I know who I am and what I do.

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

The older I get, the more I'm starting to believe in myself. I'm beginning to think of roles that I could do that I would not have allowed myself to think of before, saying: 'That's not for me, that's for the big guns.'

I always had a belief in myself, and I started wondering if it was founded.

Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.

If you have a trust in and an expectation of your own solitude, everything that you need to know will be revealed to you.

You have to know what your value is. I started learning my value when I was 12 years old.

You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.

Confidence came from people. I think I'm very confident in me, as a human being.

I've never had that concern of thinking of myself as stupid.

There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well.

What do I think of myself? I know my worth. I know my value. I know I have to lead by example. I can't just be all over the place. I put the energy out that I want given back to me. And again, I'm true to me.

It's a frightening thing to act on your opinions. You've got to find confidence in yourself, not in what others think of you. I'm still trying to separate how I see myself from how I'm perceived. It's not easy, but it's worth it.

Know and believe in yourself and what others think won't disturb you.

If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.

You can't wait for people to tell you; you have to know yourself.

I think that's kind of indicative of a type of self-confidence that people develop when they recognize their own ability to create.

One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.