Quotes About Confidence

To be humble is to be so sure of one's self and one's mission that one can forego calling excessive attention to one's self and status.

Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.

Believe, believe, believe

For far too long she'd made herself small, made herself fit into their world.

I felt one hundred feet tall, made of solid gold, and on fire.

As you'll recall, what you believe — about who you are and who God is — determines how you behave. If you believe everybody is going to criticize you, you'll behave cautiously. If you believe you're probably going to fail, you're going to venture out tentatively. If, however, you believe that the one true Lord God is calling you, empowering you, leading you, and equipping you, then you will live boldly. Why? Because boldness is behavior born of belief.

When we live by faith, we believe that God has everything under control. But if we start to worry, how we live says the opposite.

I looked over at her; if women knew how good they looked in the dash light of oversized pickup trucks, they'd never get out of them.

A Chief must show no fear, no worry... A Chief is a leader first, and a man second...

You have to believe that you're entitled to happiness.

One of the most important lessons I've learned in life is this: Do not preemptively take no for an answer. Do not decide your request has been rejected before it officially has. As with so many other lessons that involve assertion, this one applies far more to women than men.

Of course, I didn't imagine then that I could have had a real relationship with any guy. I thought that by virtue of being me I was disqualified.

I decided that I wanted to say to Sin-Jun, I like your skirt. But sometimes speaking is so hard! It's like standing still, then sprinting. I kept rehearsing the sentence in my head, examining it for flaws.

Part of getting what you want is asking for it.

And really, wasn't this endless ruminating over my own likability in itself a thing only a woman would do? Did Bill—or Ted Cruz or Rand Paul—ever ponder their likability, or did they simply go after what they wanted? Did Bill ever stop to think about which of us was more qualified, did he question his own motives for entry into the race? The idea was laughable.

I bet things would be easier for you if you either realized you're not that weird or decided that being weird isn't bad.

Maybe my homesickness was a form of prescience because when I look back, it's the circumstances of this very car ride that I recognize as irretrievable: the experience of driving nowhere in particular with my sister, both of us seventeen years old, the open windows causing our hair to blow wildly; that feeling of being unencumbered; that confidence that our futures would inform the way we wanted them to and our real lives were just beginning.

There's no better investment than your cleavage. Charlotte smirked. I believe they teach that in business school.

Long ago I had become my own confidant.

Go home, put on a pretty dress, some heels, and some lipstick, flirt with him, flatter him, and never forget how insecure men are. It's because they take themselves far too seriously.

You don't need anyone else's approval or permission to enjoy the magic of writing.

In situations that make you nervous, do your best and proceed; others before you have also been nervous.

My real frustration with Clara, I think, was that it seemed like she should be insecure but wasn't.

I always had prepared, and I always knew I could do it.