Quotes About Confidence

What would any man do with a soggy girl who can't assert herself, who has a weak voice, and whose main personality component is helplessness?

This does not mean you are "losing it" or are "not playing with a full deck" or are "not all there" or that you're "eating with the dirigibles" or "shellacking the waxed egg" or "looking inside your own mind and finding nothing there," or any of the other demeaning epithets that are said about people who are peeling an empty banana.

She has simply never quite learned to walk or hold herself comfortably, which makes her come off as an attractive wallflower.

Mirabelle is not affected by a man's failure to approach her, as her own self-deprecating attitude never allows the idea that he would in the first place.

confidently motivated by poor judgment, I dropped in one-quarter of a Quaalude.

I believe in me. I'm a little screwed up but I'm beautiful.

The minute you hesitate you are in trouble.

Most important: Don't start trying to become the perfect woman/wife/mother figure in an effort to convince him that you're the woman he's looking for. This is the time for you to remember that you are a smart, independent, emotionally secure woman who should be asserting her own sense of identity.

But being confident you are right is not the same as being right.

Experts depend on the fact that you don't have the information they do. Or that you are so befuddled by the complexity of their operation that you wouldn't know what to do with the information if you had it. Or that you are so in awe of their expertise that you wouldn't dare challenge them.

The next time you're in a real jam, facing an important question that you just can't answer, go ahead and make up something—and everyone will believe you, because you're the guy who all those other times was crazy enough to admit you didn't know the answer.

That is a lethal combination—cocky plus wrong—especially when a more prudent option exists: simply admit that the future is far less knowable than you think.

Smart people love to make smart-sounding predictions, no matter how wrong they may turn out to be.

Parece que forma parte de la condición humana creer en nuestra capacidad de predicción… y también olvidar rápidamente lo malas que resultaron ser nuestras predicciones.

Tis much better to do a little with certainty and leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.

Being confident you are right is not the same as being right.

Sometimes in life, going straight up the middle is the boldest move of all.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. —Colin Powell

If you're interested in being your best, your inner monologue needs to support the best you want to be. In fact, when it comes to sustained performance, because doubt and disappointment are constant companions, controlling your thoughts is often the ball game.

Every good athlete can find the flow," continues Pastrana, "but it's what you do with it that makes you great. If you consistently use that state to do the impossible, you get confident in your ability to do the impossible. You begin to expect it. That's why we're seeing so much progression in action sports today. It's the natural result of a whole lot of people starting to expect the impossible.

They write as if they have something important to show.

Left-wing and right-wing political ideologies have themselves become secular religions, providing people with a community of like-minded brethren, a catechism of sacred beliefs, a well-populated demonology, and a beatific confidence in the righteousness of their cause. In

Violence is a problem not of too little self-esteem but of too much, particularly when it is unearned.

Though we cannot logically prove anything about the physical world, we are entitled to have confidence in certain beliefs about it. The application of reason and observation to discover tentative generalizations about the world is what we call science.