Quotes About Confidence

It was a civilian ship, and the Lusitania could outrun any submarine. So this population of people was very confident that Cunard and the Royal Navy would be looking after them. Why weren't they under convoy? That's the real question.

I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven't had very good modeling in submission.

I know I have great grappling myself, and I know how I do with submissions.

Coming from a standing background in striking, I couldn't catch up to the guys with 20-plus years of training on the ground. I had to learn submissions. I found out it wasn't an easy road. I had six losses in a row, but I still felt I was the best fighter in the world.

If the UFC wanted to give me Warlley Alves, I would show them how chump change he is. And I'd show them how much of a fluke it was that he caught me in a lucky submission.

For so many years, I was trying to beat my hair into submission, trying to get it to look like someone else's hair, and I didn't know how. I remember going through a phase where I even put beer in my hair, because I was told that would make it smooth and curly.

Brock Lesnar will never be able to beat me because he has no submission skills. What's he going to do, knock me out?

I've been shocked by film actors - 25 and under - having such confidence and cockiness to rewrite a scene. My background is more about the director being in control. It's all about yielding. It's an oddly submissive relationship in which you're moulded, Pygmalion-style.

I see the takedowns; I see the opportunities to take people down or even try to submit them or something like that. But man, I prefer to stay on my feet. That way I'm confident.

I feel like I can submit Khabib, but feel like I'm going to stop him. I don't know how it's going to happen, but I'm either going to knock him out or I'm going to submit him. I'm going to finish Khabib Nurmagomedov.

I think McGregor is a super fighter, he has great striking, has gotten better with his wrestling, has good jiu-jitsu, and gets a bit tired after the first or second round. I have a strategy to beat him, and I think I would win. I won't say I'd knock him out or submit him, but I know for sure my hands would be raised in the end.

The reason I always insisted on signing my work was not to be subordinate to anyone.

I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.

I really subscribe to the 'look good, feel good' mantra in terms of playing, in terms of getting out there.

I always feel like you should walk into a room or walk down the street, like you belong. That's the philosophy that I always try to subscribe to.

I have been very lucky, and I think it all goes back to state subsidy for the arts. I gained my training and confidence and credentials in the not-for-profit world, and in England, that does not mean on the fringe of things. It means right at the centre.

I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left.

No one can deny who you are unless you are, in some way, minimizing the power and the force of your divine substance.

My mother taught us that ambition is part of femininity and really taught us to have substance but also style.

I want to have a resume that is substantial enough to hold itself as respectful.

I have decided to take on substantial roles. I'm even ready to take on roles which give prominence to glamour; I have absolutely no qualms in doing so.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

Pretentiousness was probably my substitute for actual confidence.

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.