Quotes About Confidence

I found myself at a time in my career trying to impress everyone. I was constantly thinking about what everyone thought of my music.

Be who you are. If you spend all of your time worrying about how people view you, you will not be either faithful to yourself or effective in what you're trying to do.

Dedication: For all the girls who walk and read at the same time.

I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage.

You can't have a conversation with someone who's intimidated by you all the time.

I wasn't truly comfortable with myself until I was about 30. I spent so much time and energy wondering if I wasn't worthy, and trying to find people to validate me, instead of validating myself.

Don't put yourself in a time-out.

I don't want to give anyone an edge in my mind. Every time I walk out on the court, I have to feel I'm the best so I can compete well. A lot of times, my chief rival is just me.

The first time onstage, a light went on. 'OK, this is my thing. I'm comfortable here. This is my thing.'

Your ability to be a winner 100 percent of the time is based upon giving up the notion that losing at anything is equivalent to being a loser.

In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.

I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do.

But I will wear white - the whitest white! - purest most pristine white! - through the dark terrible days of winter - as no man of our time will ever dare.

You know, actors lie all the time. 'Can I ride on the horse? Are you kidding? Of course! I was born on a horse!'... It's the same with motorcycles.

The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.

I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.

I have one of the worst voices in the history of recorded time.

I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.

When your confidence goes up, your competence goes up the same time.

I stopped Googling myself a long time ago. I'm sure there's plenty of misinformation out there, but I am blissfully unaware of it.

For a woman, body image is always a palpable thing. Weirdly, for me, the only time I don't care is when I'm in character.

For a long time, I let my mother say what she wanted about me, and what was worse, for a long time I believed her.

I think it's the first idea I ever got about doing something on my own, because it was the first time I have ever really felt the confidence to do it.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them." "Elton John?" "Close. Ernest Hemingway. In his own way, sort of the rock star of his time.