Quotes About Confidence

I want my body to look good to me first and to the rest of the world second. I want to be someone whom I'd aspire to be if I were another woman or whom I would desire if I were a man. But I also want to reach some level of acceptance of the body I have, regardless of my weight.

In online dating, I wonder if I have a nice enough face to get my foot in the door, but when they see my stomach and my thighs they'll be disappointed. Including a full-body shot feels like selling an old couch online and having to include all the scrapes and tiny stains.

You've got to kick fear to the side, because the payoff is huge.

You know how you wake up in the morning and sometimes you look gorgeous and other times you look like you got hit by a mack truck? I realized that my mack truck is food. If I have no sugar, yeast or wine, I have no undereye bags and my skin is perfect.

I can't change Mr. L., but I can change how I think of him. If I don't care about his opinion, his insults can't hurt me.

I have never been beautiful, not even when I was young, when most people have some brief flowering. I never had such a flowering. I was always dull and plain. I remain dull and plain.

I finally understood what my grandmother meant. If I wasn't comfortable with myself, I would never be comfortable.

I had learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor.

No one told me anything, Tuya. I was always happy for you to be the smart one. But that didn't mean I was stupid.

The difference between you and me, Lord Doctor, is that you believe you are brilliant. I, however, prepare as if I am not.

I'm too much a man for hysterics." Liu, Marjorie M. (2009-01-20). Hunter Kiss: A Companion Novella to The Iron Hunt and Darkness Calls (A Hunter Kiss Novella) (Kindle Locations 355-356). Penguin Group US. Kindle Edition.

Power is transient. Power can flow from one person to another. The most powerful person in a room isn't the wealthiest or the one with the most connections. It's the person who believes the strongest, the one who has the most confidence. And, sometimes, it's the person who can make everyone else feel like less of themselves.

I've got a black-belt in crazy, and I know where you live.

All things are possible to him that believeth.

And one day she discovered that she was fierce, and strong, and full of fire, and that not even she could hold herself back because her passion burned brighter than her fears.

Faith is the willingness to look foolish.

At some point in our lives, we all need someone who believes in us more than we believe in ourselves.

You can have faith or you can have control, but you cannot have both.

If you are on God's side, then God is on your side. God will fight for you as you fight for Him. And you can live with holy confidence, knowing that when God is contending for your cause, your cause is destined to succeed. This doesn't mean there won't be setbacks and sacrifices along the way; it just means the war has already been won.

Courage doesn't wait until situational factors turn in one's favor. It doesn't wait until a plan is perfectly formed. It doesn't wait until the tide of popular opinion is turned. Courage only waits for one thing: a green light from God. And when God gives the go, it's full steam ahead, no questions asked.

If you aren't willing to look foolish, you're foolish. And that's why so many people have never built an ark, killed a giant, or walked on water.

faith is acting as if God has already answered. And acting as if God has answered means acting on our prayers...

Long before we woke up this morning and long after we go to sleep tonight, the Holy Spirit was and is circling us in prayer. And if that doesn't infuse us with holy confidence, I don't know what will. But it isn't just the Holy Spirit who is interceding for us; the Son of God is interceding for us as well. They are interceding for the will of God to be accomplished in our lives. We are double circled. They are circling us all the time with songs of deliverance.

His willingness to look foolish resulted in epic miracles.