Quotes About Confidence

You always have to stand up for yourself.

The confidence and charisma it takes to stand up in front of a group of children absolutely terrifies me.

All I know is that it is important to stand up for ourselves, no matter how inconvenient the reality is.

Some people cannot stand up in front of people and talk, and I can - I think that's something you don't learn; you're born with it.

Don't ever be ashamed of the Gospel. Stand up, and be bold.

Sometimes you have to stand up for yourself.

When you are doing stand up, it is the most glorious hour, when you are an X-Men version of yourself, with lasers coming out of your eyes.

I don't think I've ever hurt anybody. I think I'll stand up on the day of judgment and go, 'Yeah? So what?'

Finding your voice as a stand up comedian means deeply knowing who you are as an artist and a human being.

We're a much different generation now, so I think us girls can stand up for ourselves.

You should never hold back in giving your opinion - it's important to always stand up for what you believe in and not just agree with those around you.

You have to stand up super-straight in those corsets and pull your shoulders back.

I couldn't ever stand up in front of an audience on my own and talk to them. It would be awful; I couldn't bear to do it.

I'm white. I have privileges as a parent that many others don't. Of not only teaching but expecting my daughter to stand up for herself because I have no fear that harm will come to her when she does. I am reassured by her teachers that her willfulness will do her good as she gets older.

If you are doing stand-up comedy, you have to be confident in what you are doing. That doesn't mean just because you are confident you are funny.

You know, it wasn't even that I'm a funny guy, I just loved stand-up comedy and I wanted to do it. It was one of the few things in my life that I knew I was going to be able to do, and I also felt as though I'd be able to do it the way I wanted to do it.

I took a stand-up comedy class because I'd always wanted to.

I yam who I yam; I'm not somebody, like, standard.

There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it's OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too.

When you feel great, you emanate a certain energy that translates as beautiful. I don't care if you have the standard beauty or not; it's that X-factor that comes through, and the basis of that is good health.

I try not to wear foundation unless I have a giant pimple, which sometimes I do. For the red carpet, I may add a brighter colored lip and darker eyes. But my standard is blush and mascara.

I know I'm fly - don't get me wrong. But I don't look, like, standard Hollywood. As a comedian, it's something you learn to use.

I used to want to look like every European person that was being held up as a standard of beauty, whether in the industry or in life. Then I just realized that it's not in my genetic make-up. I decided instead to go for the gold in whatever I'm doing and just be as healthy as I can be.

I want makeup to be more about freedom of expression. If I want to put on makeup and make myself look different, I can, but it's not a standard for every single day.