Quotes About Self-assuredness

When I was in my teens and 20s, I looked to older Italian and French women. They always seemed so incredibly attractive to me because of their confidence. And because their faces had evidence of age: lines, dark circles, and half-lidded eyes, it made that confidence so rebellious. And that was incredibly attractive to me.

Back during my VJ days, I was overconfident as I was on television and was earning money very early in life.

I'm telling you, there is a lot of power in being unapologetic.

My music is me letting the world know how confident I am in myself, and me basically telling other women - and guys - how confident and how comfortable I believe they should be.

And then there's this strange vast serenity that seems to come from the fact that he doesn't feel he has to prove anything.

I'm twenty-nine, yes really, I'm from Aspen, Colorado, I'm six feet one, yes really, I've been at Quantico two years, yes I date guys, no I dress like this just because I like it, no I'm not married, no I don't currently have a boyfriend, and no I don't want to have dinner with you tonight.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

I don't really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I'm not going to start now.

Sure of himself, convinced of his own power, certain that the laws which rule other men could not reach him, he went straight to the object he aimed at, even were this object were so elevated and so dazzling that it would have been madness for any other even to have contemplated it.

at my age, if I were sexually harassed, I'd send the guy flowers

Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!

My mind is pretty made up that life for Cathy Freeman will be as an unmarried woman from now on.

The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.

People respond well to those that are sure of what they want.

And as experienced as I am, it still summons an act of bravery from me, and I like that. I like the idea of setting an example - proving that it is acceptable to be alone in a public place where everyone else is in groups, and to just be sitting there eating, not having to be engrossed in anything else.

'Nutty Professor' was me going, 'Say what you want to say, but I can do this, and you can't, and nobody else in the town can do this.'

I ain't got nothing to prove to nobody.

I don't feel that I or Canada has to prove anything through big, loud, overt acts.

I think part of being masculine is not needing to prove it and not needing to answer for it.

I don't think I need to prove anything to anybody.

I fancy myself as being a fairly competent person.

If I feel good about myself, then no one can really say anything to me that will affect me.

I'm very confident on my feet.