Quotes About Confidence

And listen to me: what you've done here carries power with it, of a different sort. Don't let Solya take all the credit, and don't be shy of using it.

But I had not known that I was strong enough to do any of those things until they were over and I had done them.

he thought how little the rest of the world should matter to him, when he was secure in the good opinion of those he valued most, and in the knowledge that he was doing his duty.

I was a glaring blot on the perfection. But I didn't care: I didn't feel I owed him beauty.

The food wasn't as bad as the Scholomance cafeteria, which was as much as you could really say for it, although they presented it with the confident triumph of someone offering you marvels of the culinary art, complete with heavy white napkins and inconvenient cutlery that repeatedly threatened to fall down and disappear into the crevices of the seat or into spots unreachable except by someone with arms like a flamingo's legs.

I didn't feel I owed him beauty.

I didn't feel I owed him beauty.

was still young and foolish enough at the time to believe myself and my magic likely to elicit admiration instead of alarm, and

We should be telling girls what they already know but rarely see affirmed: that the lives they lead inside their own self-contained bodies; the skills they attain through their own concentration and rigor, and the unique phase in their lives during which they may explore boys and eroticism at their own pace - these are magical. And they constitute the entrance point to a life cycle of a sexuality that should be held sacred.

It profits women little if we gain the whole world only to fear ourselves.

An employer can't prove an employee incompetent simply by announcing that she is. But because "beauty" lives so deep in the psyche, where sexuality mingles with self-esteem, and since it has been usefully defined as something that is continually bestowed from the outside and can always be taken away, to tell a woman she is ugly can make her feel ugly, act ugly, and, as far as her experience is concerned, be ugly, in the place where feeling beautiful keeps her whole.

Are women beautiful or aren't we?

for women's magazines cannot become more interesting until women believe that we ourselves are more interesting—the myth is bound to become many times more powerful.

You've got to be sure of yourself before You can ever win a prize.

You are entitled to know that two entities occupy your body. One of these entities is motivated by and responds to the impulse of fear. The other is motivated by and responds to the impulse of faith. Will you be guided by faith or will you allow fear to overtake you?

Desire backed by faith knows no such word as impossible.

the world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going.

faith removes limitations!

Your only limitation is the one which you set up in your own mind.

Your only limitation is the one you set up in your own mind!

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind

Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap one through "opinions" and sometimes through ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through "opinions" or ridicule.

INDECISION is the seedling of FEAR!

You have to understand you cannot have faith and fear at the same time; you can only have one or the other.