Quotes About Confidence

I'd lost . . . ten pounds? Twelve? Enough to make me believe that if I just kept at it I could lose the weight, the percentage of myself, that would finally make my body acceptable. Enough to make me believe that a man could like me, could look past my current incarnation and see the beauty that would be revealed when I dropped another thirty pounds.

Jennifer Weiner

Right then, at my desk, I decided that I was done with it. I was going to eat to nourish myself, I was going to exercise to feel strong and healthy, I was going to let go of the idea of ever being thin, once and for all, and live my life in the body that I had.

nodded. I did know. Once I'd started searching out clothes that fit and looked good on the body I had instead of the one that I wanted, I had discovered exactly the feeling Leela Thakoon was talking about.

It's almost religious, that belief, that faith that a piece of silk or denim or cotton jersey could disguise your flaws and amplify your assets and make you both invisible and seen, just another normal woman in the world; a woman who deserves to get what she wants.

if need arises for holding converse with men, do not shun having witnesses, and let your conversation be marked with such confidence that the entry of a third person shall neither startle you nor make you blush.

Mi se întâmpl? s? stai în faÈ›a oglinzii ore în È™ir c?utând semnele îmb?trânirii.?i totuÈ™i, ador oamenii în vârst?, au acele calit??i remarcabile de care tinerii nu dau dovad?.Vreau s? îmb?trânesc f?r? s? recurg la liftings.Acestea r?pesc viaÈ›a È™i personalitatea chipului.Vreau s? am curajul de a r?mâne loial? chipului pe care mi l-am confecÈ›ionat.

I never knew you played the banjo! cried Harris and I, in one breath. Not exactly, replied George: but it's very easy, they tell me; and I've got the instruction book! From Three Men in a Boat

Harris's fixed ideas that he can sing a comic song; the fixed idea, on the contrary, among those of Harris's friends who have heard him try, is that he can't and never will be able to, and that he ought not to be allowed to try.

Students would have no need to "walk the hospitals," if they had me.  I was a hospital in myself.  All they need do would be to walk round me, and, after that, take their diploma. Then

That which should distinguish the suffering of believers from unbelievers is the confidence that our suffering is under the control of an all-powerful and all-loving God. Our suffering has meaning and purpose in God's eternal plan, and He brings or allows to come into our lives only that which is for His glory and our good.

Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it's Alright

I can't multiply myself out of a paper bag. But when it comes to roots, I'm your man.

Mr, B, what's wrong with me? [...] Nothing. You're smart enough to know you don't have all the answers, that's all.

If you believe it, it happens. If you don't, it doesn't. When you believe him, you put your own power in his hands.

I wish I was back in the sixth grade. I was important there. I'm nothing here. I'm a turd.

When in doubt, though, counter with your own cool.

My cynicism continuously undermines her faith in her own ability to master her moods.

Smile girls, you'll look so much prettier. So I'll damn well decide for myself when I'm ready to smile.

Mom had gotten herself so gorgeous she nearly broke the mirror

In walked a woman whose attitude was certainly in its fifties if she was not.

Be confident and the world responds to your confidence, rewards your faith.

Elena reminds him that without his dad's union job, he wouldn't have had a roof over his head, but he's one of those men of fragile confidence who needs to always believe that he's made his own way in the world.

Be patient. Be bold. Be humble. Be confident. Don't give in to the speed and surface banality of the culture. Don't give in to jealousy, commerce, or fear. Do charity work, or coach kids, or be a Big Brother or Sister, or something. Whatever it takes to get out of your own head and avoid authorial narcissism. And whatever you do, don't ever take advice from authors.