Quotes About Confidence

What's helped with saying no to others is asking myself first if I'm saying yes out of guilt or fear. If so, then it's a polite no.

There's nothing a man with low self-esteem loves more than a beautiful woman who doesn't know she's beautiful.

Part of being a PUA is learning to control your own state, so you don't need alcohol or drugs

On the other hand, this was a guy who advised students to get over their fear of approaching by walking up to random women and saying, "Hi, I'm Manny the Martian. What's your favorite flavor of bowling ball?" So I really didn't have to worry about looking foolish in front of him. He created fools. At

There are certain bad habits we've groomed our whole life—from personality flaws to fashion faux pas. And it has been the role of parents and friends, outside of some minor tweaking, to reinforce the belief that we're okay just as we are. But it's not enough to just be yourself. You have to be your best self. And that's a tall order if you haven't found your best self yet. That's

It's between weak guys and strong guys. Women are drawn to men who demonstrate strength—not necessarily physical strength, but the ability to make them feel safe. So if you're a nice guy, you can still be nice. But you must also be strong.

And because no one ever understands a word I say—my voice is too fast, quiet, and mumbly—I started taking weekly private lessons in speech and singing.

But when you know who you are in Christ, you no longer need to be threatened by people or compete with them, because you are already secure and loved.

The life begins to drain when our confidence and dependence upon God shifts to confidence and dependence upon programs

She carried herself as queens are reputed to bear themselves, and probably do not.

She was not fat, but solid, and she chose protective garments that drew up her bosom to giddy heights, pinched in her waist, flared out her rear, and managed to suggest that Aunt Alexandra's was once an hour-glass figure. From any angle, it was formidable.

I don't know what kind of great I'm bound to be, Dove considered his prospects calmly, all I know for certain is I'm born a world-shaker.

You felt to look at him that he would be wonderful upon a horse. I

Dare to believe in the reality of your assumption and watch the world play its part relative to to its fulfillment.

When you drop your desire in consciousness as a seed, confident that it shall appear in its full-blown potential, you have done all that is expected of you. To be worried or concerned about the manner of their unfoldment is to hold these fertile seeds in a mental grasp and, therefore, to prevent them from really maturing to full harvest.

Belief in yourself is more important than endless worries of what others think of you. Value yourself and others will value you. Validation is best that comes from within.

Surely my mother could do anything to which she set her mind

There are people to whom one need not show off. It's a great comfort sometimes.

in spite of all her misgivings, she glowed and thought to herself. 'This is my place. This is where I belong.

as inflation has fallen, so bonds have rallied in what has been one of the great bond bull markets of modern history. Even more remarkably, despite the spectacular Argentine default - not to mention Russia's in 1998 - the spreads on emerging market bonds have trended steadily downwards, reaching lows in early 2007 that had not been seen since before the First World War, implying an almost unshakeable confidence in the economic future.

President Franklin Roosevelt argued that all that Americans had to fear was 'fear itself'.

specified confidence intervals (for example, the statement that 40 per cent of the balls in the jar are white, at a confidence interval of 95 per cent, implies that the precise value lies somewhere between 35 and 45 per cent - 40 plus or minus 5 per cent).

According to Law, confidence alone was the basis for public credit; with confidence, banknotes would serve just as well as coins. 'I have discovered the secret of the philosopher's stone, he told a friend, 'it is to make gold out of paper.'40 The Duke demurred, saying 'I am not rich enough to ruin myself.

and those modes of defence are alone good, certain and lasting, which depend upon yourself and your own worth.