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Quotes About Confidence

If it want for faith, thare would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with enny safety, if it want for faith.
~ Josh Billings, "Faith"
Patience pilots faith.
~ Terri Guillemets
He who shows fear gives courage to his adversary.
~ Proverb
You are the one giving fear a leg to stand on.
~ Dodinsky
Listen to the little voice of doubt only if it has something insightful to say, not if it's just spouting fear.
~ Terri Guillemets
To lead is difficult when you're a follower of fear.
~ Terri Guillemets
The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice.
~ African-American proverb
Egotism, n.: doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.
~ Author Unknown
Yoga is invigoration in relaxation. Freedom in routine. Confidence through self control. Receiving strength from letting go. Energy within and energy without.
~ Terri Guillemets, 2002
I'm sexy and I mow it.
~ Internet meme, 2011
And there came a day when the hawk's shadow did not drive him crouching into the bushes. He had grown stronger and wiser, and more confident. Also, he was desperate. So he sat on his haunches, conspicuously in an open space, and challenged the hawk down out of the sky. For he knew that there, floating in the blue above him, was meat, the meat his stomach yearned after so insistently.
~ Jack London
The traveler took a long pull and stepped confidently onto the water, only to sink and flounder desperately before he regained the shore. Hey, he shouted at the wizards, why didn't that wine work for me? The wine's fine, a wizard called back. But if you'd told us you wanted to cross, we'd have told you where the rocks just below the surface were.
~ Jack Maguire
Uncertainty hurts more than ignorance.
~ Jack Vance
Although there are many things you can rely on, no one is more reliable than yourself.
~ Jack Weatherford
I took everybody, including the dog, for a ride, and we went around the block four or five times, congratulating one another upon our new mobility. I discovered that my former casual attitude of timid acquiescence was not consistent with someone who could drive a car, so I fell gradually into a new personality, swashbuckling and brazen, with a cigarette usually hanging out of one corner of my mouth because I had to keep both hands on the wheel.
~ Jackson Shirley
One must gauge one's trust carefully.
~ Jacqueline Carey
in the arts of covertcy, it is death to second-guess oneself.
~ Jacqueline Carey
Non sempre chi accondiscende è debole.
~ Jacqueline Carey
One day I took my courage in both hands
~ Jacqueline Carey
And I eat what I please. Geez, I weigh a hundred and sixty, but who cares? And Anne Ã¢â'¬â€ I sing. Christ, I sing like a fucking canary.
~ Jacqueline Susann
You dance funny,' she said. I didn't think this was a compliment.
~ Jacqueline Wilson
I might not be any good at dancing but I am a great eater.
~ Jacqueline Wilson
Magda likes her because she sings songs with very powerful, positive lyrics. Nadine likes her because her music is very cool and hip. I like her because she's got long, wild curly hair a bit like mine but much lovelier and she's not a bit fat but she is much curvier than your average rock chick. So she's kind of my role model.
~ Jacqueline Wilson
because I was so shy about taking my clothes off.
~ Jacqueline Wilson