Alan Cohen Quotes

If I learned one thing, it is that self-doubt is one of the most destructive forces. It makes you defensive instead of open, reactive instead of active. Self-doubt is consuming and cruel. And my hope today is that we can all collectively agree to ban it. . . . Think to the moments of your life when you forgot to doubt yourself. When you were so inspired that you were just living and creating and working. Pay attention to those moments because they're trying to reach you through those lenses of doubt and trying to show you your potential.

You've got to believe in yourself, or no one will believe in you. Imagination is like a bird on the wing, flying free for you to use.

Then it dawned on me that no one else was going to believe in me until I believed in myself.

It's important for people to believe in themselves.

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 have always been interested in believing in yourself.

The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.

I've always felt that if you're not on your side, why should anyone else be. So I always encourage people to be confident, and sometime even a little falsely so, just so you can give yourself an opportunity.

No one will believe in you until you believe in you.

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

Ali's belief in himself was something I picked up on, and it's become my own philosophy.

You have to be your biggest believer.

However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.

You have to believe in yourself.

Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.

You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.

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.

Your little Obama voice: 'Yes you can.' Listen to your inner Obama-voice.

Any person I idolise, or I really admire their work, I want to beat them... For me, going through my years, I made sure to idolise myself... So when you're in a race, you have to make sure that you think you are the favourite to win. You have to have that confidence.

Believe in yourself. Push to your highest limit.

I got a lot of confidence in myself.

The more you believe in yourself, the faster you're going to get.

I want to let people to believe in themselves, people believe in me that everything is possible.

The most important thing is believing in yourself.