Quotes About Confidence

He felt like part of himself had been taken away, an inward prop that was holding up his courage and confidence.

I didn't know how you'd get us out of that last one. But you did. You were good.

I'm crazy,' said Ender. 'But I think I'm OK.

You've lost faith in yourself? Isn't that rich? A god who's become a self-atheist!

Until you know that you're tougher than the enemy, you maneuver, you don't commit to battle.

Maybe not a home. Maybe that won't come until later. But I believe it will come, Mar. With your brains in this operation, how could it not?" Edimar

When I comfort you, you'll know it. And how will I know? Miro snapped back. Because you'll be comfortable, of course.

Don't be one of the scurrying, struggling ants. Be the shoe.

Bean also saw how the man's body moved inside his clothes, with a kind of contained strength that made his clothes seem like Kleenex, he could rip through the fabric just by tugging at it a little, because nothing could hold him in except his own self-control.

the kind of person on whom you could put all your hopes, who could carry all your fears, and he would not let you down, would not betray you. I

And that's as sure as we ever are of anything. We believe it enough to act as though it's true. When we're that sure, we call it knowledge. Facts. We bet our lives on it.

And that's as sure as we ever are of anything. We believe it enough to act as though it's true. When we're that sure, we call it knowledge. Facts. We bet our lives on it." "I guess that's what you're doing. Betting your life on her being what you think she is.

Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about." "Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English professor's dust-covered desk did you find that word? I assure you that never in my worst nightmares did I ever suppose that I was a lackwit.

Oh, you're willing to concede God's existence, but that's not what I meant. I mean believe in him the way a mother means it when she says to her son, I believe in you. She's not saying she believes that he exists -- what is that worth? -- she's saying she believes in his future. She trusts that he'll do all the good that is in him to do. She puts the future in his hands. That's how she believes in him.

Don't be one of the scurrying, struggling ants. Be the shoe.

I don't understand people who don't like their pictures taken," said Spunky. "If you can go out in public wearing your face, then how can it bother you for somebody to take a picture of that face?

Damn Dap and damn you too, sir, I know what I'm doing." "Do you?" "Better than anyone else." "Oh, that is obvious, since nobody else has the faintest idea what you're doing.

I know it as much as anyone knows anything. Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

I know. In fact, I am never wrong.