Quotes About Confidence

Don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don't doubt yourself.

If a rattlesnake thinks he can swallow a mouse, he probably can. Don't assume you think like a snake unless you are one.

I've been an improviser since I was in my twenties. There's really no failing in improv. You just go on to the next thing.

The only thing for old age is a brave face, a good tailor and comfortable shoes.

Pam: I don't know what it is about me that makes people think I want to hear their problems. Maybe I smile too much. Maybe I wear too much pink. But please remember I can rip your throat out if I need to. And also know that I am not a hooker. That was a long, long time ago.

L'angelo sa di essere indistruttibile. Paradossalmente, è proprio questa sua certezza che lo rende tale.

It is not insult from another that causes you pain. It is the part of your mind that agrees with the insult. Agree only with the truth about you, and you are free.

It is a startling thing, the need to feel utterly believed.

The most important opinion, of both my work and my conduct in life, is my own.

Who Do You Think You Are?

I'm not afraid of the dark I know. It's the dark I don't that terrifies me.

How we see ourselves and what we base our worth on are primary motivators throughout life.

I can't bear the smell of cigars, can you?" said Lady Partridge. "Lionel hates it too," murmured Rachel. As did Nick, to whom the dry lavatorial stench of cigars signified the inexplicable confidence of other men's tastes and habits, and their readiness to impose them on their fellows.

Replace self-criticism with regular, positive self-talk. Replace fear of failure with clear pictures of yourself functioning successfully and happily.

The crippled child is not conscience of the handicap implied by his useless legs. Though often inconvenient or annoying, but he is confident that it will never prevent him from doing what he wants to do or being whatever he wishes to be. If he considers them a handicap its because he has been told they are. Children make no distinction between the one who's lame or the one who has use of all his limbs.

Leaders must be arrogant enough to believe they are worth following, but humble enough to know that others may have a better sense of the direction they should take.

We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.

Neil's voice was calm, confident, most of all clear. "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." It was 4:17:42 P.M. EDT, Sunday, July 20, 1969.

There can be great value in imagining our hero at the end of the story. When we have confidence in our destination we are more inclined to put our hero in jeopardy.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Million Dollar Consulting Orchestration: if you don't blow your own horn, there is no music.

When you settle for "vanilla" objectives such as "increased clarity," or "more confidence," or "higher commitment" (which I call "human resources objectives" because they are so weak and nonmeasurable), you deny yourself the opportunity to create dynamic ROI, where the client receives huge benefit and your equitable compensation is quite reasonable in light of that improvement.

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.