Quotes About Confidence

I think you're going to find Marcus Aurelius particularly useful.' 'For what?' I asked. Nightingale hesitated. 'Quoting, mainly,' he said. 'And thus maintaining an air of erudition and authority.

You don't actually know enough about me to insult me properly.

insouciance. But there's just something uniquely intimidating about

Good at his job, I guessed, but probably not at ease with things that fall outside his comfort zone. He was going to love us.

I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.

I grew up in a home environment where I wasn't getting esteem for anything I did.

I think if actors don't think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can't do comedy.

If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.

Thompson was, by all accounts, a confident man, and not one to be inconvenienced by ignorance if it happened

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.

But then self-doubt has always been there for Billy, self-doubt and its cousin the berating voice, these faithful companions have always been on call to help him through the critical junctures of his life.

In the Affairs of this World Men are saved, not by Faith, but by the Lack of it.

When in doubt, don't.

Success produces confidence confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

Her breath smelled terrible and I told myself to commit that fact to memory, to remember it the next time I was intimidated by her unwavering grace.

a Hungarian girl with a completely unjustified belief in her own genius.

You could say I'm so manly I don't even allow manly stereotypes to influence my actions

And it sends an important message to me, because I am sick to death to hear my opponent saying Republicans don't trust me. They do trust me, in landslide proportions, and they're proving it tonight. We're going to bury that for good.

A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick.

A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it's moorings or orientation... Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger.

Sometimes market fears can be self-fulfilling, and a strong demonstration can avoid the worst outcomes.

but even there confidence was waning, notably overseas.

Eventually I was entrusted to work the cash register.

Part of this game is confidence, and looking clueless and uncertain doesn't help.