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Quotes About Confidence

I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
~ Mae West
I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
~ Mae West
When in doubt, take a bath...
~ Mae West
I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.
~ Maeve Binchy
Trying your best and feeling good about yourself is more important than winning prizes.
~ Unknown
realized then and there that if you let people treat you how they want, you'll be made a fool," Trump told Blum. "I realized then and there something I would never forget: I don't want to be made anybody's sucker.
~ Maggie Haberman
Speak your mind, even though your voice shakes.
~ Maggie Kuhn
Speak you mind, even if your voice shakes.
~ Maggie Kuhn
Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind—even if your voice shakes.
~ Maggie Kuhn
He could still be her knight. But that was it. She would not love someone who had no faith in her.
~ Unknown
I feel high on the knowledge that I can talk as much as I want to, as quickly as I want to, in any direction that I want to, without anyone overtly rolling her eyes at me or suggesting I go to speech therapy. I'm not saying this is good pedagogy. I am saying that its pleasures are deep.
~ Maggie Nelson
Corollary habit: deriving the bulk of my self-wroth from a feeling of hypercompetence, an irrational but fervent belief in my near total self-reliance.
~ Maggie Nelson
Her feet moved over the earth with confidence and grace.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
Never chase a man, her mother had told her. No good will come of it.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
Eleonora is a woman all too aware of her rarity and worth: she possesses not only a body able to produce a string of heirs, but also a beautiful face, with a forehead like carved ivory, eyes wide-set and deep brown, a mouth that looks well in both a smile and a pout. On top of all this, she has a quick and mercurial mind.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
Had she been too hard on her as a girl? Was that why she'd grown up so fearful, somehow, so reluctant to make her way in the world?
~ Maggie O'Farrell
I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
~ Maggie Q
A man should never despise himself, for brilliant success never attends on the man who is contemned by himself.
~ Unknown
If we think of defeat, that's what we will get. If we are undecided then nothing will happen for us. We must just pick something great to do, and then do it. Never think of failure at all, for as we think now, that's what we will get.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
If we think of defeat, that is what we will get. If we are undecided, nothing will happen to us. We must just pick something great to do and do it. Never do we think of failure at all, for as we think now, that is what we will get.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'
~ Mahatma Gandhi
This is self-evident.
~ Maimonides