Quotes About Confidence

Fight your fight," Let someone else worry about theirs." -Grima Mog

She didn't have to command me, Jude. She didn't have to use any magic. I trust you. I trusted you.

The girl had hair the deep aqua of the sea, drawn back with combs of coral. Her dress was grey sharkskin, and her brief curtsy was that of someone who had never questioned her own value. Her gaze swept the room with undisguised contempt.

I am no Court lady with lips of carmine and butterflies in my hair. I am scrawny, like a stick bug.

Instead of being afraid I would become fear

I wouldn't play the game if I couldn't win.

No, I won't help you. No I won't hear you explain why I should. It really is a magical word: no. You say whatever bullshit you want, and I just say no.

Am I beautiful like you are?" I ask Nicasia, genuinely curious. "No," she says, darting a look toward Valerian. She picks up something from the ground. "You are nothing like us.

Los idiotas son los únicos que no se asustan de las cosas que dan miedo.

she still wears her arrogance like armour...

She feels as though she has something to prove at all times. Feels as though she has to earn the crown on her head over and over again.

Your faith in yourself is all you will ever have. Don't let anyone take it away from you, ever.

When I'd tell my mother about these women around me - and how sometimes I felt that I didn't measure up - she'd chastise me for getting sucked into their nonsense. 'How do you expect to get where you want to go if you're rubbernecking at everyone else along the way? Don't focus on what you wrongly perceive as your shortcomings.

Do these two things every day for Huck: number one: make him feel good about himself, and, number two: allow him to figure out how to do things on his own. Those two simple steps. Every day. It's all he needs to plow forward and grow into a strong, happy man.

By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.

A man who prides himself on going in a straight line through life is an idiot who believes in infallibility.

I had youth, beauty, two advantages conferred by chance, and of which we are as proud as if they were hard-won.

Kaunis ei ole sen arvoista kuin kestävä, ja kestävä, se olen minä!

Self-distrust vanishes as triumph succeeds to triumph, and modesty is, perhaps, distrust of itself.

Ça se croit grand parce que ça fait de petites choses avec de grands capitaux.

To one who had never made more than five thousand a year himself, it was inspiring to explain before dozens of popeyed and admiring morons how they could make ten thousand -- fifty thousand -- a million a year, and all this by the Wonder Power of Suggestion, by Aggressive Personality, by the Divine Rhythm, in fact by merely releasing the Inner Self-shine.

As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body.