Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

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.

No one is born with self confidence. Self confidence is learned and earned with experience.

Confidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and if so, what they're thinking.

There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

Because confidence is like respect; you have to earn it.

To attain "success" without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure.

I don't have a lot of self-confidence. I'm getting there. Before I had zero confidence, but it's one of those things you learn and accept.

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

Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.

Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.

I was so adamant about proving myself for so long and I've gotten to the point where I don't have to do that as much.

Modelling has really helped build my confidence.

I have nothing to prove to anyone but myself.

I haven't really looked at myself as someone that needs to prove a point to anyone.

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

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 don't have nothing to prove.

...true self-esteem comes from competence, not the other way around.

You have to do whatever you can to limit the things that could make you feel insecure.

The greatest step toward success is self confidence. The greatest builder of self confidence is self esteem, and self esteem comes from doing the daily things you know you should do. Your self esteem will start to soar when you make some critical decisions - decisions to walk a new road, to start a new direction, to start a new discipline.

Self-confidence is the most important thing, and this comes from identifying your goals, knowing your limits and roping in all the help you can get.

You must not begin to fret about the successes of cheap people. After all, what have they to do with you?

I lack self-confidence. I don't know whether I shall ever get it. Perhaps it is better to be unsure of your self, as I am. But it is very tiring.

If you can't impress yourself, then no one else really matters.

Self-esteem is something you have to earn!