Quotes About Confidence

To flaunt your strength is to make it your weakness.

and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything

It exasperated her sometimes. The way men could be so sure of themselves. They put words together like sheds or shelves and you could stand on them they were so solid. And those feelings which overwhelmed you in the small hours turned to smoke.

Her only worry sometimes was that she didn't look different enough, that people mistook her for part of a crowd. She'd see a girl in patterned Doc Martens or with a dyed red pixie cut and wish she had the balls.

But I don't take any notice because I don't listen to what other people say and only sticks and stones can break my bones and I have my Swiss Army knife if they hit me and if I kill them it will be self-defense and I won't go to prison.

I was brought up,' Freddy informed him, 'not to suffer anxiety about decisive initiative of all types.

By this time, no matter how hard he tried to understand, Nicolò's eyes had begun to glaze, but Alessandro had no fear of bending green cane, because he knew it seldom broke. "Remember this, then—even if

Oh, fuck you and your certainties, Atticus. You're only sure because you're twenty-nine.

Since speed and confidence are the traits of success we are taught to strive with, it takes added courage to welcome time and humility into our lives.

In this way, I've learned that loving yourself requires a courage unlike any other. It requires us to believe in and stay loyal to something no one else can see that keeps us in the world—our own self-worth.

It may actually be more healthy to be disturbed, confused, or searching than confident, certain, and secure.

If any "white supremacist" were really a "supremacist", he wouldn't be living in his mom's basement.

Nixon's avowedly 'square' White House was, in fact, less cheesy than Clinton's Lite FM programming and more confident than the Kennedys' culturally craven collect-the-set approach.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

I think science works the way a tightrope walker works: by not looking at its feet. As soon as it looks at its feet, it realizes its operating in midair.

A woman wears many hats in one lifetime -- why shouldn't one of them be a crown?

The opposite of faith is not doubt, it's certainty.

As a young person, and I know it's hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take you to places: it was like having a friend, like having someone to go out with and look at the world. I would do things with a camera I wouldn't do normally if I was just by myself.

He was neither frightened nor skeptical, but felt himself drawn in with an involuntary faith--which is what faith is--

Ignore them. Don't give them the opportunity to snub you. Carry yourself like you own the place.