Quotes About Confidence

Act as if you are in control, especially when you know it's not true. Your mind will clear and you will be able to see opportunities that are veiled by chaos.

Paradoxical confidence is the confidence we place in someone on the basis of their failure or their absence of qualities. The prototype of of this confidence is the failure of prophecy [...] following which the group, instead of denying its leader and dispersing, closes ranks around him and creates religious, sectarian, and ecclesiastical institutions to preserve the faith. Institutions all the more solid for deriving their energy from the failure of the prophecy.

Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.

What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?

Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.

What good is it to seek our happiness in the opinion of others if we cannot find it in ourselves?

Oh, you!Don't pay any attention to him, Mr. Bowditch! His nose is out

Captain Prince shrugged. "Not when you're sure of your longitude.

as dangerous as they are, I always hate to kill a cave lion if I don't have to. They are so beautiful, so lithe and graceful in the way they move. Cave lions don't have much to be afraid of. Their strength gives them confidence.

The test is not just something hard to do, the test is knowing you can do it.

It gave her a sense of pride and accomplishment

Get up, girl, and dress yourself. Woman must have spunks to live in this wicked world. Christophine to Antoinette

Sad state to spend your life in. Being afraid of your own self. Rex Walls, The Glass Castle

Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.

I realised something important: whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is safe.

The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear.

The only selfish life is a timid one.

I was in those days all about the 'fuck you'. Fuck you for not recognising how great I am. I'll do it myself.

And if you have found your voice, you can be heard

Of course people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things, so there's no need to take it personally.

I'm telling you stories. Trust me. I

Be confident even in your mistakes. In Allah there is no wrong road. There is only the road you must travel.

Be confident, he advised me. 'Be confident even in your mistakes. In Allah there is no wrong road. There is only the road you must travel' 'And if the road leads nowhere?' He shrugged. 'Turn your Nowhere into Somewhere.

With faith, all things are possible.