Quotes About Confidence

Beauty magazines make my girlfriend feel ugly.

That's all anybody has got. It depends on how strong your fantasy is, and whether you really — really — in your own mind, fit into your own fantasy, whether you measure up to what you've fantasized. I don't know what yours is, but I'll bet you don't come up to it.

As Talleyrand memorably said, 'The truth is whatever is plausibly asserted and confidently maintained.' If I tell you something three times you will believe it, said the Bellman, and usually we do.

Belief, in one of its accepted senses, may consist in a merely intellectual assent, while faith implies such confidence and conviction as will impel to action.

God, you're such a safe and powerful place to find refuge! You're a proven help in time of trouble— more than enough and always available whenever I need you. So we will never fear even if every structure of support were to crumble away. We will not fear even when the earth quakes and shakes, moving mountains and casting them into the sea For the raging roar of stormy winds and crashing waves cannot erode our faith in you." (Psalm 46:1–3, TPT)

Call me Dudley. We're of equal rank. I'm older, but you're far better looking. I can tell we're going to be grand partners.

Don't make a career out of underestimating me." — Claire de Haven

If a man believed all that other people choose to say in their own favor, he might get an oversized opinion of them, and an udersized opinion of himself.

There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.

If you care about what others think of you, then you will always be their slave.

Bailey might not have great intelligence or abilities, but his whole aim, thought and study was that of the born leader--to look out for himself; and he did it with that born-leader's confidence and intensity that draws along the ordinary uncertain man, who soon confuses his own interest and his own safety with that of the leader.

I don't think he ever gave a thought to other people's opinions, which was just as well because they were often unkind

I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.

Why, if I were to believe what everyone says about me, I would think myself quite, quite ugly. But I don't believe everyone, you see...I believe you because you are my friend. You think I'm beautiful, and so I am. —The Old One

Anyway, I do not want you thinking that I or Addie or Joe or Skeezie feel sorry for ourselves. We do not. Other people may call us names or think we're weird or whatever, but that does not mean we believe them. We may be misfits, but we're okay. Leastwise, in our own eyes we are, and that's all that matters.

Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.

I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk-seeking profile that you need.

Most leaders who fail,' Bill George says in an interview with Pamela Hawley, 'really suffer from a lack of a strong identity, belief in themselves and, to be frank, respect for themselves.

Honey, lately your low self-esteem is just good common sense

It's also hard to trust yourself when you know you're that person that might run out the door.

I was shameless, and handsome, and well-endowed, and those three things in combination, I think, will never leave you high and dry.

General Lee said that the attack of his right was not made as early as expected,—which he should not have said. He knew that I did not believe that success was possible; that care and time should be taken to give the troops the benefit of positions and the grounds; and he should have put an officer in charge who had more confidence in his plan. Two-thirds of the troops were of other commands, and there was no reason for putting the assaulting forces under my charge.

One needn't worry about turning heads if keeping one's own was a matter left unresolved.