Desmond Tutu Quotes

While they flail about, you will remain calm in the knowledge that you possess strength from within.

I don't feel intimidated by any of the people I'm talking to or the situations I find myself in. I just try to make my nana proud.

I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.

I'm not frightened of a bit of silence.

One of my strong points is that, no matter what anyone says about me, it will not affect me, it's because I believe in my ability and what I can achieve.

I'm real mentally strong, so there's just not a lot that people can say to get me off of my own self and lane, and my confidence.

Confidence is not, 'They will like me'. Confidence instead is, 'I'll be fine if they don't'.

I too had the usual insecurities. I wanted a good house and a healthy bank balance. But I never got cowed down.

I think the inner strength that I have helps me stay calm.

Ultimately I'm quite a strong person.

As long as I feel that inner strength, I'll be all right.

She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be.

Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. ... One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. This is what our society needs - not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can be, that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.

One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.

The most steady, the most self-sufficient nature depends, more than it knows, on its few chosen stimuli.

Your inner strength is invulnerable to fear.

Self-confidenc e alone is security. Your ability is your security. There is no security but you.

Have faith in yourselves, and stand up on that faith and be strong; that is what we need.

O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

In some of the darkest and hardest moments, there is always a part of me that is okay. And I can always access that part of me.

May you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people.

For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself

When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He'll Win the Whole Thing 'Fore He Enters the Ring There's No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and If You Know Where You Stand, Then You Know Where to Land and If You Fall It Won't Matter, Cuz You'll Know That You're Right

I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself.

There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit.