Quotes About Confidence

It is good to be beautiful, but it should come of God and not of the hairdresser. And personal dignity is a great possession; but a man should struggle for it no more than he would for beauty.

After that I met that lawyer in the street, and was ashamed to look him in the face. I'm blessed if he didn't come up and shake hands with me, and tell me that he knew all along that his client hadn't a leg to stand on. Now I call that beautiful. Beautiful! said Kenneby. Yes, I do. He fought that battle just as if he was sure of winning, though he knew he was going to lose. Give me the man that can fight a losing battle. Anybody can play whist with four by honours in his own hands.

That is to say, we think you cannot do so. People can do so many things that they don't think they can do; and can't do so many things that they think that they can do!

that we must carry ourselves with some increased external dignity. The world is bewigging itself, and we must buy a bigger wig than any we have got, in order to confront the world with proper self-respect. Turveydrop and deportment will suffice for us against any odds.

It is probable that Tom Towers considered himself the most powerful man in Europe; and so he walked on from day to day, studiously striving to look a man, but knowing within his breast that he was a god.

When Mr. Dove had once been positive, no man on earth was more positive. It behoved him, therefore, to be right when he was positive; and though whether wrong or right he was equally stubborn, it must be acknowledged that he was seldom proved to be wrong

Tell me one thing, Major Mackintosh," she said, as she gave him her hand at parting,— "they can't take away from me anything that is my own; — can they?" "I don't think they can," said the major, escaping rather quickly from the room.

I daresay I am an idiot," said Miss Macnulty, resuming her novel.

She need never again seem to be gay in order that men might be attracted. She

Lizzie, with all her self-assuring protestations, knew that she was paste, and knew that Lucy was real stone.

but men who have been brought up with opinions altogether different, even with different instincts as to politics, who from their mother's milk have been nourished on codes of thought altogether opposed to each other, cannot work together with confidence even though they may desire the same thing. The very ideas which are sweet as honey to the one are bitter as gall to the other.

A man in the right relies easily on his rectitude and therefore goes about unarmed.

I do not think that you have any ground for fear on

I am beginning to feel that I have been wrong." "I don't think you have been wrong at all." "A man is wrong if he attempts to carry a weight too great for his strength." "A certain nervous sensitiveness, from which you should free yourself as from a disease, is your only source of weakness. Think about your business as a shoemaker thinks of his. Do your best, and then let your customers judge for themselves

I think that life has taught us that you don't have to have the crown to be the queen.

He required that she learn by heart certain passages from 'Self-Reliance.' 'Let us bow and apologize never more. A great man is coming to eat at my house. I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me... A true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the center of things... Let a man then know his own worth and keep things under his feet.

What are you afraid of, Lou?" "Afraid? I'm not afraid of anything," Lou

And I'd certainly never explored being tall before. It had always just been a fact. I am tall. I buy tall clothing. I date tall men. I can reach high things. The end. But when towering over the grocery store checkout line or out with my friends, I still felt like I didn't quite fit into the group.

My competent self is doing the talking; my bewildered self is being addressed.

Make peace with the fact that there will be those who bitch no matter what you do. You might as well do what makes you happy, so at least when you hear the bitching, you'll know that the event they're griping about was exactly the one you wanted.

And what if they do? No threat shall creak our hinges wide, no torch Shall light a fear in us; we will come out To Peace alone.

Wit is educated insolence.

To lead an orchestra, you must turn your back on the crowd

Nobody will be afraid who believes nothing can happen to him.