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Quotes About Confidence

Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
~ Mary McLeod Bethune
Your opinion of yourself is the only thing that's ugly about you," I fired back. "Now, if you want to keep looking at yourself that way, you go right ahead. But do me a favor and keep them ridiculous comments to yourself.
~ Unknown
I didn't think of the mini as sexual but as an instrument of liberation. I wanted to make clothes that you could move in, skirts you could run and dance in, but, of course, wearing clothes like that made you feel and look sexy.
~ Mary Quant
A woman is as young as her knees.
~ Mary Quant
The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.
~ Mary Quant
the maxim of the famous Spartan nurses: never expose a small child to fear, let him enter confidently on boyhood.
~ Mary Renault
At twenty-three, one is not frightened off a conversation merely by the fear of its becoming intense.
~ Mary Renault
It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men
~ Mary Renault
Maud Wainwright, a big, irregularly handsome woman, probably fifty and not ashamed of it
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
Giovanni was easy to love. He was not afraid to love, was fun in so many ways. He liked himself, which is the secret of much in life!
~ Unknown
Do not read beauty magazines. They only make you feel ugly.
~ Mary Schmich
No lady bearing the name of Mrs Darcy will be censured, or slighted, or despised, madam. Certainly not at your instigation. You are not so high you can browbeat me.' I
~ Unknown
It's none of my business what other people think of me.
~ Mary Tyler Moore
Prudent people are very happy 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu
You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu
And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way.
~ Marya Hornbacher
No matter how thin you get, no matter how short you cut your hair, it's still going to be you underneath.
~ Marya Hornbacher
I learned very early to choose my lines carefully. I still have a terrible habit, when people pause too long between words, of feeding them their line. I know my lines in advance. I dress for occasions, for personae. There are women in my closet, hanging on my hangers, a different woman for each suit, each dress, each pair of shoes. I hoard clothes. My makeup spills from the bathroom drawers, and there are different women for different lipsticks.
~ Marya Hornbacher
I will eat what I want and look as I please and laugh as loud as I like and use the wrong fork and lick my knife.
~ Marya Hornbacher
I wanted to turn heads not with lecherous leers of bemusement but with awe. I wanted to become untouchable, cruel, glittery, sleek and haughty as a cat.
~ Marya Hornbacher
He leaned down and whispered to me: No matter how thin you get, no matter how short you cut your hair, it's still going to be you underneath. And he let go of my arm and walked back down the hall.
~ Marya Hornbacher
Faith is a choice
~ Unknown
So rare that we are told that we are doing just great, and good enough. So if you are doing all you can, I want you to know I'm proud of you! And I wanted to pass that along. And I hope you feel it, and that you know you're doing ok, 'cause you know. Despite what everyone else is saying, you'll know, and I hope you do!
~ Unknown
I'm really proud of you for having come this far every single one of you, wherever you are, you're on your way you are getting there! And don't worry so much! Just that's what we need to stop doing stop worrying so much, and start observing a little bit more.
~ Unknown