Willie Cauley-Stein Quotes

For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.

We must provide leadership ... that erases self doubt.

A leader with no doubts leads badly.

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.

Whenever I get stuck on something, I'm like, 'What would I do if I wasn't afraid? What would I write if I wasn't afraid? What would I say in this situation if I wasn't afraid?'

Confidence does not come easy, that's for sure.

Every time I step onto the stage, it's not only proving to the audience that I'm capable but to myself.

I think anybody goes through a crisis of confidence from time to time. You have to kind of doubt yourself, sometimes. It's the way forward.

Once you've found something you know how to do, it makes you feel you don't have to be intimidated by someone.

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.

When I was younger, I really struggled with confidence.

Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.

The truth of the matter is that I used to be much more - as it were - shy. Now I don't care!

I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself.

I feel like more than 80% of the world wouldn't get up in front of 40 million people and dance on national television, and if I have the confidence to do that then that's a step ahead in my life for me in terms of personal goals. I will gain a lot of confidence on all aspects right there.

But the real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself, have self confindence, and try to be secure in your decisions and thoughts.

The world takes us at our own valuation. It believes in the man who believes in himself, but it has little use for the timid man: the one who is never certain of himself, who cannot rely on his own judgment, who craves advice from others, and is afraid to go ahead on his own account.

By the second time I sang by myself in school, I just realized that I was more in control of my environment than I had ever been before.

I don't want to make any huge decisions before I really know what I'm doing and am sure of myself.

I lost my confidence.

I've played so many jobs where I'm fearless, but it's far from me. I wish I were like that in real life.

I think my lesson is to back yourself once you've been given a job. Far too often, I've been given a job and then doubted why I'm there.

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.

Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.