I cooudn't have said it better, by Ellen Vrana on Quora (http://www.quora.com/How-do-you-develop-confidence-when-you-have-nothing-to-be-confident-about/answer/Ellen-Vrana)
In my personal experience, integrity has been the main driver of real confidence. Integrity embodies compassion, generosity of spirit, honesty, reciprocal actions. It means treating people kindly, helping others, thinking about the world around you.
You can put yourself through almost anything as long as at the end of the day, you can say: I did the right thing and in so doing, I did right by others.
This is how you start to get confidence in yourself, practice integrity.
It doesn’t mean you won’t have self-doubt, or that you won’t fail, or that others won’t disagree. It will take a while to get there. But you will get through it if you believe in your integrity, and thus yourself.
If you have nothing else, have that. If you do, you’re already better than most.
In my personal experience, integrity has been the main driver of real confidence. Integrity embodies compassion, generosity of spirit, honesty, reciprocal actions. It means treating people kindly, helping others, thinking about the world around you.
You can put yourself through almost anything as long as at the end of the day, you can say: I did the right thing and in so doing, I did right by others.
This is how you start to get confidence in yourself, practice integrity.
It doesn’t mean you won’t have self-doubt, or that you won’t fail, or that others won’t disagree. It will take a while to get there. But you will get through it if you believe in your integrity, and thus yourself.
If you have nothing else, have that. If you do, you’re already better than most.
