Quotes About Confidence

I had no idea whether they played hide-and-seek in Mexico. Still, it was a game that let me be confident instead of self-conscious and confused, so I reached out my hand to touch the nearest part of him, which was his knee. "Tag," I said. "You're it." If he had run, I could have chased him and known what I was doing, because I know how to be eight, nine, ten, and eleven...

Hope is a funny thing when you think about it. It's something you always have. You just have to believe you do.

Tell ya what I'm gonna do, see. I'm not going to hope. Now, you don't either. Don't hope your life will get better. Just make it so. Don't hope you are able to handle this baby. Just do it. Just be glad, just move fast, just do what you need to do. But for god's sake, don't hope. Just be...Just be...

Maybe that's what I need to do now, muster up everything that was ever vivísima about me and somehow find a way to stand tall.

But there is a kind of poem you can call a Hawkins poem as there is a kind of chair you can call a Hawkins chair, and the object of both is to get praise, which is the confidence in yourself that you get from people whom you have succeeded in pleasing when you haven't any confidence in yourself.

But a pretty face is just a lucky accident. Pretty can't feed you. And you'll never be pretty enough for some people.

I like a woman with meat on her bones." She laughed. "My hips express their deepest appreciation, Major Winslow.

Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.

Don´t be afraid,Miss Burel.This won´t hurt a bit."He ran his teeth over his lower lip,tugging at the silver hoops."Unless you want it to.

There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.

There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.

Never argue when you're winning.

When in doubt, ignore and be horribly unimpressed

Don't say "freaking", Russ. If you have to use the "F" word, go for the gold.

I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.

If you want me just whistle. You know how to whistle don't you? Just put your lips together and blow.

If you want me, just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow." (as Marie 'Slim' Browning in To Have and Have Not )

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

I do it because I can.

Not for the first time, I wonder what it would feel like that, to be so beautiful that you don't even realize people are watching you, to be so confident that you don't even have to worry about being nervous or feeling self-conscious. I've spent what seems like my whole life trying to pretend I'm that way. What would it be like to have it just come naturally?

You have to gooo," Lacey says. "She doesn't have to," Noah says. "If she can't handle it, she can't handle it.

You can do this. You are invincible; nothing can rattle you. You have nerves of steel; you are a confident, strong woman; you-

Not for the first time, I wonder what it would feel like that, to be so beautiful that you don't even realize people are watching you, to be so confident that you don't even have to worry about being nervous or feeling self-conscious. I've spent my whole life trying to pretend I'm that way. What would it be like to have it just come naturally?