Quotes About Confidence

If you were a man, you'd know in your bones what direction you were going. It's an automatic thing, this knowing where you are, bred deep in a man's bones.

I'm the most fluent liar in the world, I'm the coolest, the smoothest. A lie, Savich thought.

The face I saw always seemed to belong to a stranger - was it because I tried to please too many people too often, and had never given myself a chance to let my own personality come through on it?

And it occurred to me that the reason she makes it work, probably, is because she's so comfortable with herself. And you know, that's not such a bad notion, in the whole life-lesson business. Being comfortable with yourself. Because if you're not okay with who you are, why should anyone else be?

Being comfortable with yourself. Because if you're not okay with who you are, why should anyone else be?

Patients who were rarely praised as children, often distrust the positive things people say about them as adults. A child's concept of self is formed in childhood and it takes a long time with many affirmative examples to turn that self-concept around.

The only thing I do know is that when your mother labels you negatively, you believe her—for who else forms your self-image?

Patients who are rarely praised as children often distrust the positive things people say about them as adults. A child's concept of self is formed in childhood and it takes a long time, with many affirmative examples, to turn that self-concept around.

Persevere, and, don't let any self-doubt distract you.

when you're thinking bad thoughts about yourself, to remember that they might turn out to be wrong.

No. It's not your job to convince him. It's his job to believe it. This is his shortcoming, not yours. He needs to think well enough of himself to believe it. And that's always been a problem for him.

took her hands away from her face. It was hard to do. She knew she looked a wreck. But if you can't trust a man to look at your real face and not run screaming, what good is it to have him around in the first place?

not how it works. People with really good self-worth think they're the same size as everybody else, and they never make anybody else feel small. Any time somebody tries to act like they're more than you are, deep down they're afraid they're less.

Petey boy?" "No, sir." "Guess." "Before just now I would've said zero.

No. It's not your job to convince him. It's his job to believe it. This is his shortcoming, not yours. He needs to think well enough of himself to believe it. And that's always been a problem for him." Carol sat a moment with her mouth open before answering. "But…I can't do anything about that." "That's right," Nathan said. "You can't.

Whatever you think your shortcomings are…you can't just lock yourself in the house so no one can notice or comment. We all have to take ourselves out into the world, flaws and all. And find a way to make the adjustment.

Once you misplace the ability to be yourself without thinking about it, without second-guessing it, you're pretty well cooked.

He was different. He didn't waste his time with crap like that. He had living to do. He knew who he was and he didn't have anything to prove to anybody. He had no problem saying he made a mistake, or he didn't know. That's a sign of confidence in a person. People think it's the other way around. But it's only people who don't have their acts together who work so hard to make you think they do.

He knew then why his voice had abandoned him. Because it takes courage to talk to people.

Younger you are, the more you're not sure what's the right way to be in the world. The more you think you might be getting it wrong, the more sensitive you'll be about it. As you get older, like me, you stop caring so much what people think.

Somehow Bea knew the key would have to be an utter lack of preparation. Of anticipation. Once she allowed space for doubt, she would never overcome it.

It's not your job to convince him. It's his job to believe it. This is his shortcoming, not yours. He needs to think well enough of himself to believe it. And that's always been a problem for him.

Without hesitation. Without creating a gap that doubt can wedge its way into, to create an even greater hesitation.

It's a trust thing. When people trust me, I'd just about die before I let them down. You can tell me anything.