Quotes About Confidence

My worth depended on where exactly the decimal was placed among the zeroes.

It is always safe to see yourself truthfully. You never have to be ashamed of yourself, with yourself.

I understood that I was clearly insane. But he apparently hadn't picked up on how many times in one short letter I asserted that I was not. This acceptance of my questionable mental health made me feel confident that we would be compatible, possibly for life. I

Do you understand that you are exactly attractive enough and thin enough (even though you weigh four hundred pounds) and smart enough and funny enough, even if you cannot tell a knock knock joke without fucking it up? You are exactly everything enough to the person who thinks you are.

Put another way, to be more confident you need to give a whole lot less of a shit about what other people think of you. Confidence is not something you feel or possess; it's something others use to describe what they see when they look at you.

Do you understand that you are exactly attractive enough and thin enough (even if you weight four hundred pounds) and smart enough and funny enough, even if you cannot tell a knock knock joke without fucking it up? You are exactly everything enough to the person who thinks you are

When you say, "I need more confidence," what you're really saying is, "I need those people over there to approve of me." That is the desire to control other people and what they think. The first person who figures out how to do this owns the world.

Never, ever try to impress somebody. Be exactly the person you would be if you were alone or with somebody it was safe to fart around.

So if you think the job really suits you, be you.

When you say, "I need more confidence," what you're really saying is, "I need those people over there to approve of me." That is the desire to control other people and what they think.

A person can be utterly incompetent and yet dazzlingly confident. What's more, this same person can know how incompetent they are and still be just as confident. Confidence has nothing to do with ability.

In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued. (From a speech read on video on August 31, 1995 before the NGO Forum on Women, Beijing, China)

Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.

I don't believe in people just hoping. We work for what we want. I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor, so we work to try and bring about the situation that is necessary for the country, and we are confident that we will get to the negotiation table at one time or another.

Watson,' said he, 'if it should ever strike you that I am getting a little over-confident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper 'Norbury' in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you.

I'm cold and free and the smartest man in the world, and this time they're going to know it, I promise you. I promise you that.

But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.

If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.

Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.

Never ask people about your work.

Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.

A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack

In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to be confident of his efficacy and worth.

Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?