Quotes About Confidence

You're brave and smart and kind and I'd be a fool not to trust you.

Showing it off—and not caring who cared—was a sign of strength. So now she trembles.

You look nervous." "I'm ... a little nervous." "You'll be fine. You're pretty. You're alien. You'll trend well.

You are in love with yourself, aren't you?" He hmphed. "Someone has to be.

Never underestimate the power of a bad joke, and better yet one that pokes fun at yourself.

I went through my life thinking that everyone else was better than I was and that I was always trailing behind, trying to be like them. But now I know that I'm just me and they're gonna have to deal with that.

Tell me to smile, and I'll show you my teeth.)

You need to march your doubt out into a field and put a .357 round in the back of its head. Let its death soak into the earth, grow the wheat, make bread from its blood. Because, for real, fuck doubt. Fuck doubt right in its wax-clogged ear.

No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labours under the weight of fear.

I was a lot braver when I was eight.

Life is too short to cower.

It all came down to entitlement, and one's sense of it. Marina, feeling entitled, never really asked herself if she was good enough. Whereas he, Julius, asked himself repeatedly, answered always in the affirmative, and marveled at the wider world's apparent inability to see the light. he would have to show them - of this he was ever more decided, with a flamelike conviction. But he was already thirty, and the question was how?

Marina, feeling entitled, never really asked herself if she was good enough. Whereas he, Julius, asked himself repeatedly, answered always in the affirmative, and marveled at the wider world's apparent inability to see the light. He would have to show them.

The first step is making sure you, as the Top, do, in fact, know what the hell you're doing.

You said you didn't have experience with girls, but you sure seemed to know what you were doing up there." Jaime

Girls are always at their best smiling.

One becomes very strong when one abandons all one's doubts.

Self-esteem—the sense that "I'm not afraid to confront this problem and I think I can solve it"—doesn't come from abundant resources.

In California she might have been called fat. But that was not a word Kate would have used to describe her. She had what Hawaiians called Mana. It meant spiritual power, a kind of inner strength people were drawn to.

Squatted beside the fire, with the warmth of it upon his face and hands, he felt a smug contentment that seemed strangely out of place--the contentment of a man who had reduced his needs to the strictly basic--and with the contentment came a full-bodied confidence that was just as out of place.

You say a thing so often and so well that after a time everyone believes it. Even, finally, yourself.

Belief is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Be strong, little mother," she said to Melissa. "I know you can be." "Yes?" Melissa said a little doubtfully.

Yes, he knew his face was finely made, his forehead broad, his gaze haunting, his lips sculpted so that even a sneer looked fetching on them, but he needed a living mirror to tell him so.