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Quotes About Confidence

The Brodie set did not for a moment doubt that she would prevail. As soon expect Julius Caesar to apply for a job at a crank school as Miss Brodie. She would never resign. If the authorities wanted to get rid of her she would have to be assassinated.
~ Muriel Spark
Poise is perfect balance, an equanimity of body and mind, complete composure whatever the social scene. Elegant dress, immaculate grooming, and perfect deportment all contribute to the attainment of self-confidence.' -
~ Muriel Spark
Never apologise, never explain.
~ Muriel Spark
El cursillo aconsejaba a la mujer trabajadora que quisiera mantener la compostura repetir dos veces al día las siguientes frases: La compostura es el equilibrio perfecto, una ecuanimidad del cuerpo y la mente, una serenidad perfecta en cualquier entorno social. Vestimenta elegante, limpieza inmaculada y modales perfectos contribuyen a lograr la seguridad en una misma.
~ Muriel Spark
A person is as strong as he thinks he is, and as valuable as he thinks he is.
~ Murphy Joseph
It is the same way with dating. The time you are most prepared for dating is when you don't need anyone to complete you, fulfill you, or instill in you a sense of worth or purpose.
~ Myles Munroe
there is a great need in all of us to be accepted, but you must trust what is unique or different about yourself, even if it is odd or unpopular.
~ N.H. Kleinbaum
This is among the few things that can be said about love with any confidence. It is small enough to be contained within the heart but, pull thin, it would drape the entire world.
~ Nadeem Aslam
Be careful," she said. "You can't fight a tiger." "Yes you can," he said. "You can if you are a tiger yourself.
~ Nadeem Aslam
I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
~ Nadine Gordimer
I could do it, Listen boasted. Show me how and I could run the whole damn planet. You can't even reach the on button, said Cienfuegos.
~ Nancy Farmer
Matt had no trouble believing her.
~ Nancy Farmer
Isn't it lovely to be lovely me!
~ Nancy Mitford
Why miss out on what God has in store for you while you're trying to get in on his plan for somebody else? Your plans are the best—for YOU—and so is your personality. You're so worth it
~ Nancy Rue
Meanwhile, it's who you are inside that counts anyway. If you have God-confidence, you're going to look, act, and feel good about yourself because that's just how God made you. Concentrate on God and who He wants you to be.
~ Nancy Rue
Betty Big Boobs
~ Nancy Rue
I had learned to trust the peculiar workings of my heart and mind
~ Nancy Springer
Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford. —Cindy Crawford
~ Nancy Warren
Though why would this incredibly sexy, sophisticated man be interested in me? I was the girl-next-door type, a solid B student, and he was the kind of sexy academic who probably dated brilliant supermodels.
~ Nancy Warren
People who're nuts never doubt their own sanity. (The Killer's Cousin)
~ Nancy Werlin
Looking ahead to coming disasters, ecological and political, we often assume that we are all going to face them together, that what's needed are leaders who recognize the destructive course we are on. But I'm not so sure. Perhaps part of the reason why so many of our elites, both political and corporate, are so sanguine about climate change is that they are confident they will be able to buy their way out of the worst of it.
~ Naomi Klein
Because of the way our daily lives have been altered by both market and technological triumphalism, we lack many of the observational tools necessary to convince ourselves that climate change is indeed an emergency—let alone the confidence to believe that a different way of living is possible.
~ Naomi Klein
I am not your subject or your servant, and if you want a cowering mouse for a wife, go find someone else who can turn silver to gold for you.
~ Naomi Novik
Of course I was afraid. But I had learned to fear other things more: being despised, whittled down one small piece of myself at a time, smirked at and taken advantage of. I put my chin up and said, as cold as I could be in answer, "And what will you give me in return?
~ Naomi Novik