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Quotes About Confidence

A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.
~ Robin Trower
You gotta stay 'fresh to death,' I call it. Fresh outfit, fresh haircut, fresh tan. Just stay fresh.
~ Pauly D
I shot a wild elephant in Africa thirty yards from me, and it didn't hit the ground until it was right at my feet. I wasn't a bit scared. But a four foot putt scares me to death.
~ Sam Snead
I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death.
~ Lefty Gomez
Do the uncomfortable. Become comfortable with these acts. Prove to yourself that your limiting beliefs die a quick death if you will simply do what you feel uncomfortable doing.
~ Darren Rowse
You can't please everyone and trying to do so is the kiss of death.
~ Criss Angel
Respetar cuanto uno ha de respetar; no protestar por nada; no sufrir jamás la molestia de no tener confianza en sí mismo; no enredarse jamás en la obsesión ni ser torturado por la incapacidad, envenenado por el resentimiento, impulsado por la cólera…
~ Philip Roth
Sabbath had the power, and he knew it, of being no one with anything much to lose.
~ Philip Roth
About my breasts giving me confidence? I know I have something people will like, people will be jealous of, people will want. To have the confidence that you will be wanted - that's what confidence is. Confidence that you will be approved of, thought well of, desired. If you know that, then you're confindent.
~ Philip Roth
A young panther in cufflinks and a pinstriped suit—a panther ready to pounce.
~ Philip Roth
The one undeniable talent that talking heads have is their skill at telling a compelling story with conviction, and that is enough.
~ Philip Tetlock
In one of history's great ironies, scientists today know vastly more than their colleagues a century ago, and possess vastly more data-crunching power, but they are much less confident in the prospects for perfect predictability.
~ Philip Tetlock
Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no opportunity for faith either.
~ Philip Yancey
Grace, my friends, demands nothing from us but that we shall await it with confidence and acknowledge it in gratitude.
~ Philip Yancey
Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eyes, which makes her the center of attention. I am going to be french.
~ Philippa Gregory
Yes, but either way, shamed or not, I shall be Queen of England, and this is the last time you will sit in my presence.
~ Philippa Gregory
I don't know how much we will rise, I say stoutly. And I have no fear of falling. He looks at me. You are ambitious to rise? We are all on fortune's wheel, I say. Without a doubt we will rise. We may fall. But still I have no fear of it.
~ Philippa Gregory
Thomas More once told me: lion or king, never show fear or you are a dead man.
~ Philippa Gregory
How? I murmur. It feels as if I am talking in my sleep, floating down a stream of sleep. How can I conquer the worst fear? You just decide, she says simply. Just decide that you are not going to be a fearful woman and when you come to something that makes you apprehensive, you face it and walk slowly and steadily towards it. And smile.
~ Philippa Gregory
There was no question now who sat at the right hand of the King. It was the Queen, who walked through the great hall wearing deepest crimson and gold with her head high and a little smile on her lips. She did not flaunt her return to favour. She took it as she had taken her eclipse: as the nature of royal marriage. Now that her star was risen again she walked as proudly as she had ever done when in shadow.
~ Philippa Gregory
Don't be afraid of the future, little Julia. Take your present life and live it.
~ Philippa Gregory
You just decide. Just decide that you are not going to be a fearful woman and when you come to something that makes you apprehensive, you face it and walk towards it. Remember - anything you fear, you walk slowly and steadily towards it. And smile.
~ Philippa Gregory
You just decide,' she says simply. 'Just decide that you are not going to be a fearful woman and when you come to something that makes you apprehensive, you face it and walk towards it. Remember – anything you fear, you walk slowly and steadily towards it. And smile.
~ Philippa Gregory
I am fit to capture a unicorn, and I should not be so questioned.
~ Philippa Gregory