Quotes About Confidence

Don't grab hurtful comments and pull them close to you by rereading them and ruminating on them. Don't play with them by rehearsing your badass comeback. And whatever you do, don't pull hatefulness close to your heart.

But developing fundamental skills through disciplined practice is what gives players the grounded confidence to dare greatly.

Remember too that sometimes we overlook our own strengths because we take them for granted and forget that they're special.

Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance.

Again, it's counterintuitive, but acknowledging uncertainty is a function of grounded confidence, and it feels like humility to me.

Once everyone understands their vale, we stop hustling for worthiness and lean into our gifts.

The woman who emerged had to be eight feet tall. Her hair was every shade of purple, piled in buns and hanging in braids, and all of it sprinkled with gems like stars.

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MAKE THE FIRST CUT "This step is not for the faint of heart. There is no going back. It is time to make the first cut. Are you sure you have made all the right choices? Are you pleased with your plan? Do not make your first cut until you are absolutely, positively sure." —Excerpted from Creating the Illusion by Madame Michel, Paris, 1954

Courage is as contagious as fear.

it gave him the confidence he needed to believe that maybe, just maybe, they had a right to be together. He'd never felt the way he was feeling at

Weak women get no respect.

Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said Blake; "my business is to Create." Besides, since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you are incomparable.

Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.

Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

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Only reckless confidence in a Source greater than ourselves can empower us to forgive the woulds inflicted by others.

Drinking gave me a rush of confidence, and for a boy hounded by feelings of inadequacy, the buzz was a welcome relief. What was impossible to realize at the time was that I was shooting myself in the head in some strange time warp where the bullet takes many years to finally reach its target.

I believe that Christianity happens when men and women experience the reckless, raging confidence that comes from knowing the God of Jesus Christ.

Against insurmountable obstacles and without a clue as to the outcome, the trusting heart says, 'Abba, I surrender my will and my life to you without any reservation and with boundless confidence, for you are my loving Father.

The death of Jesus Christ on the cross is His greatest single act of unwavering trust in His Abba's love. He plunged into the darkness of death, not fully knowing what awaited Him, confident that somehow, some way, His Abba would vindicate Him.

Abandonment is the triumph of trust in our lives.

blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe" (John 20:29).