Quotes About Confidence

If you let someone talk you out of the word "no," you might as well wear a sign that reads, "You are in charge.

Those who fear public speaking actually fear the loss of identity that attaches to performing badly, and that is firmly rooted in our survival needs.

The Bulletproof Mind

I encourage people to remember that "no" is a complete sentence.

River smiled sweetly at his tormentors and told them, "If you want to kick my ass, go ahead. Just explain to me why you're doing it." After a confused pause, one of the skinheads said, "Ah, you wouldn't be worth it." "We're all worth it, man," River said with a beatific smile. "We're all worth millions of planets and stars and galaxies and universes.

The fear of being fundamentally flawed brings with it a related fear. It's the fear that if you did make a full commitment to living in your Zone of Genius, you might fail. It's the belief that even your genius is flawed, and that if you expressed it in a big way, it wouldn't be good enough. This belief tells you to play it safe and stay small. That way, if you fail, at least you fail small.

If so, you will need to ask yourself if you are afraid to go to your ultimate success because you're afraid of outshining someone from long ago.

the less breath you feed your fear, the bigger your fear gets.

She didn't care that people called her a bitch. 'It's just another word for feminist,' she told me with pride.

Fake it till you make it actually worked.

Ponte algo con lo que te sientas a gusto. Así seguro que no fallas.

As the lightness buoys me, I wonder if maybe she was right. Maybe it's not about looking hot for guys, but about feeling like a place acknowledged you, winked at you, accepted you. It's strange because, of all the people in all the cities, I'd have thought that to Parisians I'd be invisible, but apparently I'm not. Apparently in Paris, not only can I skate, but I practically qualify for the Olympics!

She wears the braid every day and always, by lunchtime, the curls and ringlets of her thick mane have managed to escape in rebellious little tendrils. But she refuses to surrender to that hair of hers, and every morning, it goes back into the braid.

Anyhow, she didn't care, that people called her a bitch. 'It's just another word for feminist,' she told me with pride.

Saying goodbye is less fraught this time. They have done it now once, like normal people: leave, come back. It builds confidence.

What makes you think I'm scared?" "City dicks always are." "How do you know I 'm a city dick?" "Well, we're in a city. And you're a dick, aren't you?

I think I'll try the cinnamon-spice chai latte," she said, giving me a stern look that said, I will not be ashamed of my beverage selection.

In my mind, I am bold and forthright, but what comes out always seems to be so meek and polite.

And it was like I knew , and that certainty planted itself in my belly like a warm secret.

I'd wish you luck, Willem, but I think you need to stop relying on that

Petite, je n'ai jamais eu conscience d'être soutenue, car j'ignorais l'impression que cela faisait de ne pas l'être.

I thought of what Mom sometimes said to me when I was feeling insecure: "Fake it till you make it.

Because even though she might not know it, she just díd what I told her she could do.

When exactly had the mirror stopped singing her praises and started whispering her doubts? And why had she gone back to it day after day? Why had she asked a mirror—or anyone for that matter—to tell her who she was? But then again, why do any of us?