Quotes About Confidence

Her desire to think well of herself had at least the element of humility that it always needed to be supported by proof.

It all left her, as she wandered off, with the strangest of impressions – the sense, forced upon her as never yet, of an appeal, a positive confidence, from the four pairs of eyes, that was deeper than any negation and that seemed to speak on the part of each for some relation to be contrived by her, a relation with herself, which would spare the individual the danger, the actual present strain, of the relation with the others. They

I welcomed the consciousness that I was charged with much to do, and I caused it to be known as well that, left thus to myself, I was quite remarkably firm.

When you are embarrassed, do as you think best, and you will do very well. When you are in a difficulty, judge for yourself.

She believed me, I was sure, absolutely; if she hadn't I don't know what would have become of me, for I couldn't have borne the strain alone.

When you're successful you naturally feel more at home.

We shall be so right . . . that we shall be strong; we shall only wonder at our past fear. It will seem an ugly madness. It will seem a bad dream.

For it was of no use, she had an unquenchable desire to think well of herself.

People are proud only when they have something to lose, and humble when they have something to gain.

Why doesn't my brother like you? the Countess ingenuously added. I don't know and I don't care. He's perfectly welcome not to like me; I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.

But I think on the whole I would rather be myself than you. I'm quite content to be myself; I don't want to change.

You take things easily, and you have fewer prejudices even than I, who pretend to have none, but who in reality have three or four. Happy man, you are strong and you are free.

She sought to be eloquent in her garments, and to make up for her diffidence of speech by a fine frankness of costume

but she carries her head like a pretty woman. (Chapter 1)

She answered that she liked standing up and

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing.

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

?tii ce anume e mai impotant decat s? faci ceva? -Nu. -S? fii tu însuÈ›i. -?i dac? eÈ™ti un nimic? -Atunci fii un nimic.Dar fii din plin. -E o nebunie. -Este.De asta-i atat de solid?.

After that I can face the world

We ought always to assume that God loves us and is in control of our world.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common Hours.

Write on your doors the saying wise and old, Be bold! be bold! and everywhere-- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less; Better like Hector in the field to die, Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly

Who has searched or sought All the unexplored and spacious Universe of thought? Who, in his own skill confiding, Shall with rule and line Mark the border-land dividing Human and divine?