Quotes About Confidence

All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

Now that I look back, it seems to me that in all that deep darkness a miracle was preparing. So I am right to remember it as a blessed time, and myself as waiting in confidence, even if I had no idea what i was waiting for.

She thought, If I'm crazy, I may as well do what I feel like doing. No point being crazy if you have to worry all the time about what people are thinking anyway.

In St. Louis one of the girls had said to her, Just pretend you're pretty so they can pretend you're pretty.

In St. Louis they had made a sort of game of it, trying to pretty her up. Everything looked wrong. Just pretend you're pretty.

There was no more the stoop of her high

In retrospect, I'm very grateful for whatever reluctance it was that kept me alone until your mother came. Now that I look back, it seems to me that in all that deep darkness a miracle was preparing. So I am right to remember it as a blessed time, and myself as waiting in confidence, even if I had no idea what I was waiting for.

The man who plays alone never loses.' " Guiliano

Not to be rich, but to have money; to have money like a wall to put your back to, and then face the world.

Get in the car. If I wanted to kill you you'd be dead now. Trust me.

Other people veto their existence. I don't let anyone do that.

As much as a man can guarantee anything against fate. Yes, I'm confident

Ella nunca me había amado, pero me tenía confianza, el cariño que despierta un criado leal.

Les hommes s'efforcent de croire en Dieu parce qu'ils n'ont pas confiance en eux-mêmes. Et l'histoire nous démontre qu'ils n'ont pas tort car jusqu'à présent nous n'avons pas été bien fiables.

You want the girl next door? Go next door!

In the end, a man turns into what he thinks he is, however large or small. It is the reason why certain people are prone to colds and catastrophe. And why others can dance on water.

She [Whitley] was the only girl I knew who surveyed everyone like a leather-clad Dior model and rattled off Latin like it was her native language.

You are a magnificent and powerful person," I said.

Because he was an asshole. I'm not sayin' nothin' I wouldn't say to his face. He embraced his assholeness.

The day I stood in front of the mirror and saw and loved my face and my hair for the first time in my life I was alone--completely utterly alone. We are always alone when we find the truth. The fact that we are alone makes the taste of affirmation no less sweet.

Men's pride is situated in their scrotums.

Leadership was partly showmanship, and Westy neglected no means of projecting confidence, strength, and moxie.

Hebrews 4:15–16, which says: For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.