Quotes About Confidence

Don't let anyone—no matter how important, famous, or powerful—make you feel ashamed about standing up for your boundaries.

They are able who think they are able.

For they conquer who believe they can.

Solve metus

possunt, quia posse videntur.

Quienes pueden, pueden porque piensan que pueden.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure

I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.

Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

Fear no more, says the heart...

she could not help knowing it, the torch of her beauty; she carried it erect into any room that she entered; and after all, veil it as she might, and shrink from the monotony of bearing that it imposed on her, her beauty was apparent.

She had made him think he could do anything. Nobody else took him seriously. But she made him believe that he could do whatever he wanted.

I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me

Dr. Holmes came again. Large, fresh coloured, handsome, flicking his boots, looking in the glass, he brushed it all aside-headaches, sleeplessness, fears, dreams-nerve symptoms and nothing more, he said.

Sometimes she had it; sometimes not. She never knew why it came or why it went, or if she had it until she came into the room and then she knew instantly by the way some man looked at her

I have written this book quicker than any other," she notes in her diary, "[and] it is all a joke; & yet gay & quick reading I think; a writers holiday. I feel more and more sure that I will never write a novel again

There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice; & that interests me so that I feel I can go ahead without praise.' (26 July 1922)

she was a pioneer, a stray, venturing, trusting.

They start the day confident, braced, believing themselves desired at Miss Smith's tea party; they say to themselves as they go into the room, I am the superior of half the people here, and it is thus that they speak with that self-confidence, that self-assurance, which have had such profound consequences in public life and lead to such curious notes in the margin of the private mind.

All mists curl off the roof of my being. That confidence I shall keep to my dying day. :ike a long wave, like a roll of heavy waters, he washes over me, his devastating presence - dragging me open, laying bare the pebbles on the shore of my soul. It was humiliating. I was turned to small stones.

know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

You are you. That is what consoles me for the lack of many things.

Without self confidence we are as babes in the cradle.