You can't convince someone else - whether it's a potential employer, a loan officer at the car dealership, or someone you've been crushing on - that you're amazing and terrific if you don't actually think you are.
Interpretation
Self-belief is essential to persuade others about your worth.
This quote emphasizes the importance of self-confidence in interactions with others. If you do not believe in your own value and abilities, it will be challenging to influence others, such as employers or romantic interests, to see you in a positive light as well.
In practice
In a motivational speech to inspire confidence in young adults.
One of the best things about life—a reason not to go blindly after one goal and one goal only—is that sometimes it will take you to something that is way cooler than anything you would have consciously set out to do in the first place.
When your goal is to gain experience, perspective, and knowledge, failure is no longer a possibility
You don't get taken seriously by asking someone to take you seriously. You’ve got to show up and own it. If this is a man’s world, who cares? I’m still really glad to be a girl in it.
No matter where you are in life, you'll save a lot of time by not worrying too much about what other people think about you. The earlier in your life that you can learn that, the easier the rest of it will be.
We have our hands, we have our brains, we have the challenge all around us, and we have within (from whatever source) the will to strive. That is enough; there is no need to assert 'belief' in that which we do not, as yet, know.
Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.
Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.
What matters isn't how well you play when you're playing well. What matters is how well you play when you're playing badly.
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