Quotes About Confidence

I am a queen upon this board, Charlotte had once told Lord Ingram, and I do not play to lose.

Many people, women especially, she had observed, responded to a compliment by explaining what they had—or hadn't done—to merit it.

May I remind you that you are speaking to someone capable of smiting you with a thunderbolt?" "Is there any point to flirting with a girl who is not capable of that?

He admired her surety. She knew her own worth and did not pretend otherwise for those who judged her on her parentage. But by refusing to tolerate fools and play nice, she'd condemned herself to a solitary path, both in defeat and in victory.

Still scared witless?" Of course she was. He'd had to remind her there was a citron tart on the premises.

Do not undervalue what you are ultimately worth because you are at a momentary disadvantage

Remind yourself that you're far more likely to undercharge than overcharge, my dear, because you don't yet understand your own value and you've never been taught to demand your full worth.

Remind yourself that you're far more likely to undercharge than overcharge, my dear, because you don't yet understand your own value and you've never been taught to demand your full worth." She smiled. "That's why I appointed myself the bursar of this operation, because I've had to learn both.

Don't worry, darling. I'll look out for myself. And I've reached an age when I have no problem telling someone to fuck off.

Mrs. Watson pressed the heavy coin into Charlotte's palm and closed her fingers around it. "Remind yourself that you're far more likely to undercharge than overcharge, my dear, because you don't yet understand your own value and you've never been taught to demand your full worth." She smiled. "That's why I appointed myself the bursar of this operation, because I've had to learn both.

But don't forget, sir"—she reached through the bars and took hold of his hands, her own hands steady, her gaze clear and calm—"that I am a queen upon this board—and I do not play to lose.

They take antidepressants prescribed by their psychotherapists, confident that the biochemical and oedipal self can be treated in one room.

It taught me this: The most insecure people often seem like the most obnoxious ones.

Share your optimisms and keep your pessimisms to yourself.

If you have your own kind of power, show your hand. Make the man fear you in you own field. For example, you can write. Your rich man cannot do that. It is quite all right to exercise your own power. Have faith in yourself.

But people who believe in themselves make others believe.

I'm not a strikingly handsome guy, but I'm in movies.

I'm not an Adonis, that's for damn sure. I've never really thought of myself that way, and it doesn't matter to me. My favorite actors aren't Adonises. Dustin Hoffman is a flawed-looking man he's amazing to me. Tom Hanks is flawed-looking people love him. Same with Gene Hackman.

I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.

You became an adult when you stopped caring what other people thought about you and started to care what you thought about them.

I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it.

I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.

Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society.

This MGM flurry of concern about my body was unnerving. Having always taken my appearance for granted, I felt suddenly misshapen. Even Mother, whose earlier comments had always been good-natured, joined the critical chorus. [...] Stuck with myself, once again I resolved to stay friends with my body.