Quotes About Confidence

We had this talk," she said. "You may be dead sexy, and I mean, like, really dead and really sexy, but you don't get to tell me what to do. Right? And no head-shrinker stuff, either, or I swear to God, I'll pack my shit and move!

Oh, try not to sound so much like Mom—you don't have the ovaries (Monica Morrell - Last Breath)

Take the back door, she said. Claire, you and your strang friend- Eve, they both said simultaneously, and Eve held out her fst for a bump. Or, you could call me Eve the Great, Mistress of All She Surveys. Eve for short.

One should never create tension between one's footwear.

Is it arrogance if one is truly superior?

They don't know you're secretly a badass?

I'm still alive. And I'm still fabulous.

Here, you are exceptional...There, who knows? They might not value you as much as we do.

If she were any friendlier, she'd be giving you a lapdance right now.

It's not the hair. You just--you're something else, Claire. It's like when all the rest of us don't know where to go, you ... just go. You're not afraid.

Claire sighed. She supposed people always did like that sort of girl, and always would. And secretly? She envied Monica's confidence. Maybe just a little, traitorous bit.

You shouldn't have to tiptoe around your own home

I'm not a wilting flower, unless that gets me extraspecial treats.

I wonder if it was your father who made you think so little of yourself," Wolfe said, which was not at all what Jess expected. "Having met the man, I would believe it. But, Jess: don't believe what the demons whisper in the corners of your mind. We all have demons. You are not to be compared against any of the others, or against your own brother. You are yourself. And if I had not seen genius in you, I never would have kept you in the class. I don't coddle mediocrity.

Well...I would make an awesome mayor. I'm very photogenic.

You should have trusted me. I'm really tired of people not trusting me.

Porque soy una chica, pensó Claire. Casi no fue capaz de contener su alivio interior. Porque somos todas tontas e inseguras y creemos que nunca somos lo suficientemente buenas.

You looked like the sexiest woman in the world. Well, in fairness, I am the sexiest woman in the world. And you're always right. You are so brilliant to recognize that.

When I'm feeling uncomfortable, I attack. It makes people step off and gives me time to find my way.

That's incredible...I don't know--okay, well, you know, nobody's probably voting for me. I mean, I'm not Richard. I haven't gone out of my way to be responsible or anything.

I am bigger than the box I'm in.

I can be a badass DJ when I want, but I am also an insufferable music snob.

I'm not that girl who randomly meets a guy one night and has her life change. I wear cords and flannel shirts. I don't have the killer body like Tris or Caroline. Sometimes I don't wash my hair for three days and sometimes I don't floss.

I also feel fairly confident that the original Texaco Salvatore was a good family man, with perhaps a propensity for wearing his wife's panties and betting his kids' college money at the track, but otherwise a solid dude.