Quotes About Confidence

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.

You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.

As a leader, you obtain a sense of the better soldiers during training. They have a quiet confidence about them and a swagger that sets them apart.

Ninety percent of morale is pride in your outfit and confidence in your leaders and fellow fighters.

Once you perform once, twice, or even three times, soldiers develop confidence in your leadership. You can only hope that this confidence will be passed to other leaders within the company.

Courage is one step ahead of fear.

It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.

The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.

The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.

They exchanged looks full of mischievous security.

The better we feel about ourselves, the fewer times we have to knock someone down to feel tall.

Beautiful? For whom? Why, for myself, of course.

Es horrible pensar, como me pasa cada vez que empiezo un libro, que ya no tengo, que nunca he tenido talento alguno.

If nothing else, my analysis of George W.'s oratory style had taught me that a sincere countenance and a confident stance were sufficient to distract your audience from the fact that you were talking rubbish.

He'd once read (or heard)—Disraeli, was it? (or Jimmy Bowden?)—that a man ought never to apologize; never to explain. He did neither

The secret of walking on water is knowing where the stones are.

The question is not whether you're frightened or not, but whether you or the fear is in control. If you say, 'I won't be frightened,' and then you experience fear, most likely you'll succumb to it, because you're paying attention to it. The correct thing to tell yourself is, 'If I do get frightened, I will stay in command.'

You will go to the lady and say certain things as i instruct you Suppose she sends for the police? She will not send for the police You cannot know that ! Mon cher, practically speaking, i know EVERYTHING

faith, which forms its positive side is at the same time cognitio and fiducia, a trustful knowledge and a knowing trust.

I didn't go to political correctness school.

As long as he deceived himself about the truth, he could blame fortune and have confidence in the future. Now the clouds of madness were closing round his mind.

they all believed, without any sort of doubt, that they deserved to be heard, that their words ought to be heard, that the narratives of their faultless lives must be heard. They all had the same unwavering certainty my father had. And I understood that this was the certainty that Bevel wanted on the page.

And I like asking questions, to keep learning people with big egos might not want to look unsure.