You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know to be arrogant about it.

When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things.

—Shakti Gawain

The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

—Shakti Gawain

What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.

—Shakti Gawain

Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them.

—Shakti Gawain

I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.

—Shakti Gawain

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

—Samuel Johnson

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

—Ruben Studdard

It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.

—Rosalynn Carter

Feeling special is the worst kind of cage a person can build for himself.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

—Philip Adams