Quotes About Confidence

I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man.

I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.

Write tests until fear is transformed into boredom

You have to believe in yourself despite the evidence.

I made up my mind I'm not going to pay attention to what people think. I've done that too long—all my life. I'm not going to live that way anymore.

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called "walking."

Always look like you know where you're going, even when you don't.

I never doubted that I would work, and every time I went to an audition, I went into the room with the knowledge that I was going to get the part. Ninety-nine times out of 100, I didn't.

After 'Freaks and Geeks ' I dealt with several producers who wanted to cover up all my beauty marks, every single mole on my body. They tried to cover them on my first two episodes of 'Dawson's Creek ' and it just looked ridiculous, so I had to put my foot down. But it's not something I'm insecure about.

I'm not attractive; this, I'm quite aware, Is not a prepossessing head of hair; It's rough and reddy, like myself; and these Are not the most symmetrical of knees.

It's not your job to like me - it's mine

Of his first enemy encounter, Gen. Grant said that after his initial fear, "My heart resumed its place." Grant said he suddenly realized his potential enemy he had been "as much afraid of me as I had been of him.

Oh, brethren, be great believers! Little faith will bring your souls to heaven, but great faith will bring heaven to you.

Be careful not to mistake insecurity and inadequacy for humility! Humility has nothing to do with the insecure and inadequate! Just like arrogance has nothing to do with greatness!

I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life, I am going to be with me and I don't want to spend my life with someone who is always critical. So I am going to stop being my own critic. It's high time that I accept all the great things about me.

I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.

I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way.

The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.

The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.

Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself.

The very fact that we need to struggle for approval proves that we do not approve of ourselves. Having to convince ourselves of something means we do not really believe it. That is why we contort ourselves grotesquely, lose sight of who we really are, and tangle ourselves pathetically in a complicated falsification of our lives.

One forgets the fear of heights when one cannot fall

I'm not a dog

I told myself that, too. It turned out myself was a skeptical bitch and didn't believe me.