Quotes About Confidence

I look like a child - and I love it!

This is among the few things that can be said about love with any confidence. It is small enough to be contained within the heart but, pull thin, it would drape the entire world.

I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.

Very timely too: Suddenly Shirley understood why her father had brought her 10,000 miles to live among strangers. Here, she did not have to wait for gray hairs to be considered wise. Here, she could speak up, question even the conduct of the President. Here, Shirley Temple Wong was somebody. She felt as if she had the power of ten tigers, as if she had grown as tall as the Statue of Liberty.

You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get.

I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.

I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.

I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my makeup box.

Ramona considered all these worries ridiculous, so she ignored them.

Yes, you are," said Beezus.

And Sandra, she knew from her experience with the fly spray, was ruthless. "You don't know it." There was triumph in Sandra's voice. "I know something you don't

Willa Jean did not feel she was beautiful because she was a healthy child. She felt beautiful like a grown-up lady on TV.

We can shift a student's focus from the anxiety of proving ability in the face of negative stereotypes to the confidence of improving with effort despite the negative stereotypes. Embracing a theory of intelligence as something that can develop—that can be expanded through effective effort—is something all of us can do to reduce the impact of stereotype threat and increase achievement in all of our students.

Nice Girl Syndrome: Nice girls suffer from the disease to please - they put their needs behind everyone else's.

IT WASN'T THAT MY MOTHER AND FATHER were indifferent to their children's physical well-being by any means. It was just that they seemed to believe that everything would be fine in the end and they were always right.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect is essentially being too stupid to appreciate how stupid you are. That sounds like a pretty good description of the world to me. So

Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments.

There was something so marvelously innocent, so irretrievably lost, about the world back then. You could see it in the easy, confident gait and sun-drenched smiles of the vacationers in every photograph. These people were happy. I don't mean they were happy. They were happy. They were living at a good time in a lucky country and they knew it. They had good jobs, good homes, good families, good prospects, good vacations in cheerful, sunny places.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect is essentially being too stupid to appreciate how stupid you are.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect is basically being too stupid to know how stupid you are. That

He [Henry Ford] seldom let facts or logic challenge the certainty of his instincts

We know we have to face hard truths and take strong steps, but we have not done so; instead, we have drifted. And that drifting has eroded our resources, fractured our economy, and shaken our confidence.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

When we trust, we reflect the character of God.