Quotes About Confidence

He asked me to be his girlfriend and asked me to Homecoming…" "Wow. That sucks. I hate it when hot, popular guys do that stuff to me. I mean, asking you to be his girlfriend? Sounds like he deserved to be kicked to the curb. Girl power.

You have a beauty of a sort," he said. "But more important than that, you have enough manly strength in you to match me.

My form is neither pleasing nor displeasing," she said. "But I've let the world see how little I care for its verdict.

S]he spontaneously threw back her head and trumpeted,I'm diff rent! I'm diiff rent! as if she were hurling a challenge with all her might beyond the limits of the sky.

For the greatest happiness of women is to be right one day, one hour, one second after being wrong all their lives...apparently.

I am wary of any gun, anywhere, anytime—except when it's in Stormy's hand. She could sit with her finger on the detonation button of a nuclear weapon, and I would feel safe enough to nap.

Martie came out of the office first, smiling prettily, and Dusty rose to greet her, smiling less prettily, and Dr. Ahriman entered the waiting room behind her, smiling paternally, and maybe Dusty smiled a little more prettily when he saw the psychiatrist, because the man virtually radiated competence and compassion and confidence and all sorts of good stuff.

You've always mistaken my absolute self-assurance for profound thought.

Understanding wasn't always necessary, as long as you believed.

Some big guys, they think struttin' the muscle will put your tail between your legs, but all they got is strut, they ain't got the guts to back up the brag

Do not doubt the beauty of your heart.

The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph into arrogance that Death loves to prove unfounded.

To have your life blow up four times before you're thirty would take something out of anyone, and I think it drained from my mom just enough hope that she never quite built her confidence back to what it once had been.

You must never lie to yourself, or you are left with no one to trust.

Belief and trust, twined together, can meet any danger.

Whatever happens here, trust your heart. It's as true as any compass.

She is awesomely competent without being smug. She is determined without being bossy, morally certain without being judgmental. She likes herself but is not full of herself.

Taciturnity sometimes could be a sign of a healthy ego that did not require constant gratification

Her stare was direct and unwavering, full of confidence earned from painful experience...

A truly nice smile combined with self-control can take a person a long way.

Although Grandpa never put it in words for me, one thing I learned from him was that being admired gives you more power than being feared.

The next one's also from Thoreau. 'If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Surrender to fear is an invitation to doubt.

Ah, sir, that's just mean. She's not a Victoria's Secret model. but she's pretty in her way.