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Quotes About Confidence

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. Otherwise they'd have nothing to prove.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Biblical faith is not some feeling that stands alone; rather, it is the deeply felt and held assurance of God's faithfulness and power. It is confidence in the willingness and the ability of Jesus to bring us into a relationship with God and to empower us to live the Christian life.
~ Catherine Stonehouse
Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.
~ Catherine the Great
But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I've a devil of a habit for being right.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
She felt as she often did in class when she was nearly sure she had the right answer, but could not always make herself raise her hand.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
If he lost everything else, pride, priapism, and producer credit, Decibel Jones would never, never give up his swagger.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
It's a secret and if you tell a secret the secret comes alive and can never be kept safe at home again.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I'm not afraid of you!' The wombat yelled. 'I saw you get stuck in the washing machine once. Round and round you went! Who's afraid of something that can't defeat a rinse cycle?
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Where I come from, some people wear fine suits just to ride on an Aeroplane - I suspect they think if they impress it enough it will be sure to carry them safely.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I am a Magyr. I could crush your skull with my hands and drink this rat town under the table afterwards. And if I wanted to kill myself a passel of sailors, I'd bloody well do it with cannon, saber, and a fist in the teeth, not by batting my damn eyelashes. You'd be wise to remember it, Maggie, my love, and if we see a mermaid on our jaunt across the high seas, the best thing for all of us would be to let Sheapshank here put an arrow through her giggling head.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
That's how kings are made, my brush-tailed girl—they pick a place, shove a stick in it, call themselves King and wait to see if someone gets angry about it. No one has gotten angry so far, so that makes the otters mine.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
It is important to announce your intentions at top volume, she thought, or your intentions will think you are ashamed of them.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
They don't know I'm beloved. But I know and that's plenty.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You'll never wish you'd held back a little more.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
The beauty Snow White's got has nothing to do with him. She's scarred up and suspicious and shameless. Her pretty's not for him. It's like saying the moon's got a fine figure on her. Maybe true, but what good is that to a man? Snow
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I'm gonna be good at something other than marrying, darlings. Besides, I don't want them. I don't even wanna screw them, how am I gonna marry them?
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Cocky don't say anything and that's as good as love right about now.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
No sense in being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway.
~ Cathie Linz
I am not a doormat. I get to decide what I will or won't do in this life, nobody else, and, no matter how cute Marley Hayes might be, he doesn't get to boss me around. (Lexie)
~ Cathy Cassidy
Never let them see you sweat.
~ Cathy Hapka
Subtly, she was telling him that she had her own life, her own business. An independent woman could always leave.
~ Cathy Kelly
Makeup is such a weird concept. I'll wake up in the morning and look in the mirror: "Gee, I really don't look so good. Maybe if my eyelids were blue, I'd be more attractive."
~ Cathy Ladman