Quotes About Confidence

If somebody tells us it's rubbish, then our attitude is that the person's misguided, rather than that we are rubbish.

I got what I have now through knowing the right time to tell terrible people when to go to hell.

Jane did believe she was all that,

When you do something out of conviction, my dear, it should be because you believe it's the right thing to do. If you look for approval from everyone, you'll never be able to act.

You were showing him your muscle?" I froze, wondering how much she had seen. She smiled. "Sometimes it's better to let boys think they're stronger," she told me.

I learned that strength, like height, is measured by who you're standing next to. I was considered a scrawny guy in the gym. [...] Yet sometimes when I stood in front of my own mirror at home, I saw a powerful me. I couldn't hold onto the image, though. It slipped like a globule of mercury from under my index finger.

The most beautiful women I've ever observed are those that have exchanged a self-focused life for a Christ-focused one. They are confident, but not in themselves. Instead of self-confidence, they radiate with Christ-confidence.

A true leader must have enough backbone to stand alone, even when the crowd wants to take the easy road home. A true leader cannot be dependent on companionship for his or her security, but must learn to trust in God alone. Singleness can give us the kind of backbone - courage, confidence, and leadership skills that an effective Christian must learn.

It is not that we don't have confidence in our God to save us from hell; we just don't have confidence in Him to do everything else he has promised to do while we are still on Earth.

Saying "no" to yourself can be a way of saying "yes" to yourself.

If family and society tell you its unfeminine, not really womanly, to be aggressive, to speak up, to have strong opinions, to take up space, then women won't trust their own voice, because to be heard and to be influential, you've got to have a way to sing out with passion and love and self-trust--to sing out your song for everyone to hear.

If we cannot speak with confidence about biblical authority, what ground have we for challenging the reigning plausibility structure?

It seems to me clear from the whole New Testament that the Christian life has room both for a godly confidence and for a godly fear. The contrast between these is not a contradiction.

Against both of these temptations the New Testament warns us with its insistent call for a patient hope, a hope which is — on the one hand — confident and sure, an anchor of the soul, and on the other hand patient and enduring.

You'll never catch a nudist with his pants down.

When I cannot feel the faith of assurance, I live by the fact of God's faithfulness. Matthew Henry

Believe God's Word and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your

We must learn to take God at His Word, and go straight on in duty, although we see no way in which we can go forward. The reason we are so often balked by difficulties is that we expect to see them removed before we try to pass through them.

The eagle that soars at great altitudes does not worry about how it will cross a river. selected

A key part of successfully being Julia, it seemed, was not giving a shit if you looked weird.

It's true," Eliot said. "Statistically, historically, and however else you want to look at it, you are almost never right. A monkey making life decisions based on its horoscope in USA Today would be right more often than you. But in this case, yes, you were right. Don't spoil it.

There was enough hiding in life. Sometimes you just wanted to show somebody your tits.

Alone in his room, he smiled at his secret greatness.

Sometimes you just wanted to show somebody your tits.