Quotes About Confidence

He had the ease of an expert, so confident that it seemed casual, but it was the ease of a tremendous concentration, the concentration on one's task that has the ruthlessness of an absolute.

Honest people are never touchy about the matter of being trusted.

Your ego is the strictest judge. -Howard Roark in his speech at his trial.

Your ego is the strictest judge. -Howard Roark to Gail Wynand

Women are taught from early childhood that their worth is proportional to their attractiveness.

With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.

How do you tell someone she has to learn to love herself and her own body before she can be loved or love?

she felt secure only in her terrible sense of insecurity.

The room was full when I walked in, but as soon as I took my place behind the desk, my nervousness left me.

I had nothing to escape from except my own inner doubt.

If you're going to do this work, Barack, you've got to stop worrying about whether people like you. They won't." Patronage

I had given her a reassuring smile and patted her hand and told her not to worry, I wouldn't do anything stupid. It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves.

Don't be thick, all right? I'm not just talking about one time. Look, I ask Monica out, she says no. I say okay … your shit's not so hot anyway.

I gotta say, boss," he told me, "that was some real gangster shit back there.

But whatever their motives, they would all at some point confess a common weariness, a weariness that was bone-deep. They had lost whatever confidence they might have once had in their ability to reverse the deterioration they saw all around them. With that loss of confidence came a loss in the capacity for outrage. The idea of responsibility—their own, that of others—slowly eroded, replaced with gallows humor and low expectations.

I did like Stevie Wonder, I did love basketball, and I tried my best to be cool at all times. So why did such comments always set me on edge? There was a trick there somewhere, although what the trick was, who was doing the tricking, and who was being tricked, eluded my conscious grasp.

I mean dumb choices in the wake of considerable deliberation: those times when you identify a real problem in your life, analyze it, and then with utter confidence come up with precisely the wrong answer.

I hadn't grown up in Compton, or Watts. I had nothing to escape from except my own inner doubt. I

Leadership isn't just legislation, that it's a matter of persuading people and giving them confidence, and bringing them together and setting a tone.

You could talk stuff to rattle an opponent, but that you should shut the hell up if you couldn't back it up.

It's hard, in retrospect, to understand why you did something stupid. I don't mean the small stuff—ruining your favorite tie because you tried to eat soup in the car or throwing out your back because you got talked into playing tackle football on Thanksgiving. I mean dumb choices in the wake of considerable deliberation: those times when you identify a real problem in your life, analyze it, and then with utter confidence come up with precisely the wrong answer

Looking back, I realize I was doing what most of us tend to do when we're uncertain or floundering: We reach for what feels familiar, what we think we're good at.

one of my main goals as First Lady is to never be photographed in a bathing suit.

Confidence. The secret to a man's success.