Quotes About Confidence

My body has conditioned things, to some extent. The life of an attractive woman is different from that of a plain one. My hair, my eyes, the shape of my mouth, the contours of breast and thigh have all contributed.

I will always have doubts...But I will always overcome them.

It seemed to me that, no matter what endeavor I was involved in, I was to be something of a sham.

They were stepping up, not cowering down.

Sir, I may be an idiot, but there's one thing I'm not sir, and that sir is an idiot.

The most important piece is to confirm what has been successful (so it will be repeated) and simultaneously assert the learner's competence so she will have the confidence to consider new

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Por primera vez sentía placer al mostrarse desnudo, y no a una sola persona, sino a todo un grupo; en vez de pasar simplemente, se plantó delante de todos.

We try too much and trust too little. Count the times God's Book tells us to try. Now count the times it tells us to trust.

When you're in a burning building looking out of the twentieth story window down to the street and all you see is clouds of billowing smoke, you have to choose to believe the firemen below who tell you they have a safety net and it's safe to jump. When the clouds of smoke disappear, you don't have to believe any more: you see it. In this world, it's a leap in the dark; in the next world, it's a leap in the light.

I have everything to offer and nothing to lose

the stock market demands conviction as surely as it victimizes the unconvinced.

Our doubts are traitors / And make us lose the good we oft might win / By fearing to attempt.

Thorn illustrated that there lies a point when bravery shades into arrogance, and arrogance shades into idiocy.

The master nodded. "To hear the unheard," he said, "is a necessary discipline to be a good ruler. For only when a ruler has learned to listen closely to the people's hearts, hearing their feelings uncommunicated, pains unexpressed, and complaints not spoken of, can he hope to inspire confidence in the people, understand when something is wrong, and meet the true needs of his citizens.

They developed the confidence to bounce back from adversity and tap into a source of inner strength many of them had never experienced before. They faced their demons head-on and didn't blink.

My confidence grew out of knowing that when the spirit was right and the players were attuned to one another, the game was likely to unfold in our favor.

Don't ask, don't get.

It is wise to take admissions of uncertainty seriously," Daniel Kahneman noted, "but declarations of high confidence mainly tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his mind, not necessarily that the story is true.

The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow.

Okay? You'll be a knockout. Listen, we'll buy a bottle of high-price Scotch and take it along. That Vat 69.' Frank

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I almost passed the IQ test," he said in a low, shaky voice.

You discover I'm right," the door said. It sounded smug.