Quotes About Confidence

I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have.

Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that running around and sweating, somehow believing it means anything).

Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.

Confidence is something you feel before you truly understand the situation

The secret to mountain biking is pretty simple. The slower you go the more likely it is you'll crash.

A woman can't do anything about her appearance. Either she's pretty or she isn't. But her character is quite another matter.

I made friends easily, probably because I was spontaneous and average, which didn't intimidate people. It's the quiet ones kids are unsure about.

When I die, I want them to bury me facedown and ass up so that the whole world can kiss my ass!

Confidence depends upon the people in whom you are to confide. You would not confide free representative institutions to the Hottentots, for instance. Nor, going higher up the scale, would you confide them to the Oriental nations whom you are governing in India. . . . [Self-government] works admirably well when it is confided to the people who are of Teutonic race, but it does not work well when people of other races are called upon to join in it.

It turns out, after a lot of exploration, that I'm not really a princess. A swell gal, sure, but not a princess.

I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything - I do everything all wrong - but I think for me that's the best - because I don't think I have a voice so I think what I project would be style - if I learned to sing I'd lose my style.

Julia taught me what it takes to find your way in the world. It's not what I thought it was. I thought it wa all about-I don't know, confidence or will or luck. Those are all some good things to have, no question. But there's something else, somethng that these things grow out of. It's joy.

don't waste your time being impressed by people (usually men) who are already adequately impressed by themselves.

Your desk should send to everyone who sees it the message: All is well; I am in control.

Faith means walking on the waters.

If a man has to say trust me it's a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you do without words.

But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit.

No tenía miedo de viajar sola porque era una chica grande, con nada menos que veinte pesos en la cartera...

Tan absurdo hablar porque sí, oírse hablar y saber que nunca se tiene demasiada razón. Ésa es otra, quizá la peor de nuestras cobardías. Los que valemos algo aquí no estamos ya seguros de nada. Hay que ser un animal para tener convicciones.

Tenés miedo; querés estar seguro. No sé de qué... Sos como un médico, no como un poeta.

Qué machito está esta noche

Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat.

The education provided must therefore encourage the development in each citizen of three things; an inquiring mind; and ability to learn from what others do, and reject or adapt it to his own needs; and a basic confidence in his own position as a free and equal member of the society, who values others and is valued by them for what he does and not for what he obtains.

Punky had shown me how to make friends, how to be free, and I was going to spread my wings and fly.