Quotes About Confidence

Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn't need to change anything.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.

I love [my friends]. They're brilliant, but I'm the best.

Marvel not," she said. "God clears the way for me. I was born for this.

I boiled every equation down to these simple terms: was I lovable or was I ugly?

Faith in the power of prayer … is … faith in miraculous power; and faith in miracles is … the essence of faith in general. … [F]aith is nothing else than confidence in the reality of the subjective in opposition to the limitations or laws of Nature and reason, … The specific object of faith, therefore, is miracle; … To faith nothing is impossible, and miracle only gives actuality to this omnipotence of faith[.]

Some women think they need to be overpowering in order to be powerful. This is so far from the truth. What is so great about being a women is how powerful we are quite naturally.

It's not my fault that my awesomeness intimidates people.

wonder if it would be like being forced to wear size two clothes when you are a size twelve. You wouldn't be able to move comfortably. You'd always be aware of the fact that something pinched. There would be wardrobe malfunctions and embarrassment when you thought people were looking at you oddly. You'd be thinking constantly about taking off the outfit just so you could breathe.

And he wonders if maybe Nina is right; if a superhero is nothing but an ordinary person who believes that she cannot fail.

Was that all it took to be brave? Knowing that someone believed in you?

I might never be a cover girl, but I was a girl who could cover it all.

Beliefs are the roads we take to reach our dreams. Believe you can do something—or believe you can't—and you'll be right every time.

McAfee, I could try this case in my sleep and still win. Guess that's your plan, then, since you're clearly dreaming.

If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you really have one of your own?

You are not an impostor," Sam Hallowell told me. "You are not there because of luck, or because you happened to be in the right place at the right moment, or because someone like me had connections. You are there because you are you, and that is a remarkable accomplishment in itself.

I wondered what it would be like to not give a damn about what people thought of you.

you cannot take something i trust you with and use it against me -- plain truth

Concrete answers came easily; nonchalance didn't.

She had given me my first crayons and coloring book, and had held me when I messed up, assuring me that the lines were for people with no imagination

she never wore makeup—just those sharp features, take it or leave it.

they accepted any baggage that came with you and made you believe you were more than you actually were

It is not that she isn't active or that she doesn't eat healthily. It's just how she is made, and if that isn't everyone's standard of perfect, then maybe they just have to revise their damn standard.

Fake it until you make it, she said.