Quotes About Confidence

I determine my own worth. If I had to rely on others, I'd have lain down and died waiting.

You're good enough, Jacob.

Get over it, I want to tell myself. He's just a gawky guy with a cowlick, not some stud.

And he knew that, but all his life he'd been treated like crap to the point that he believed he was crap. He'd never done anything good and nobody had ever said anything positive about him.

Do you think I look like Sophia Loren?' I ask him as we get into the car. 'I used to tell your mother she looked like Sophia Loren.' He looks at me, frowning, and then it registers. 'Oh God, some guy's using that line on you, isn't he?' 'Not just "some guy",' I tell him. 'The guy.

Finally, I asked how you got a boy to like you back. She said, 'Just be yourself,' as though I had any idea who that might be.

When I was a child, I believed that what I want mattered so little that it wasn't even worth me discovering what it might be.

W]hen I told my dad why I was calling, he just said, 'Honey, you're so beautiful it doesn't matter what you wear.' I wondered how many dads in America were, at that very moment, giving their daughters the same useless advice mine was giving me.

Have you ever tried?' 'No.' 'Then don't tell me I can't.

Like many faeries she knew, he was sculpture-perfect, but instead of being wrought of shadows like those in her court, this faery had a tangled feel to him. Shadow and radiance. He didn't look much older than her, until she saw the arrogance in his posture. Then, he reminded her of Irial, of Bananach, of Keenan, of the faeries who walked through courts and crowds confident that they could slaughter everyone in the room. Like chaos in a glass cage.

Belief is a powerful thing. If you believe you can…

Trust your instincts, trust your judgment.

Safe wasn't quite what appealed to her right then. Safe wasn't how she felt. Invincible, in control, powerful- those words felt closer to true.

Whatever this fearlessness, this strength, this difference was, she was starting to like it.

Trust wisely and believe in yourself, in your vision.

You make James Bond look like he shops at a thrift store and cuts his own hair.

I'm going to be fit and slim and beautiful. I'm going on a diet as of today." "Why? You've always said that looks don't matter and women only diet for men and life is obsessed with the superificial." "Yes, I know, but then I thought, hey wouldn't it be fun to be sexy?

Hi," (cough), "my name is Jasmin Field. I'm a journalist. So don't piss me off. Ha ha. And um - well, I can't really act. Ha ha." No one laughed.

You'll see. I have a collection of fine waistcoats and a handsome face." He stepped back to let her take in the full effect of both and her smile spread to the edge of a laugh.

We Are Lovable Even if the most important person in your world rejects you, you are still real, and you are still okay.

I do not understand what makes mothers think they are walking-talking thermometers.But I think somewhere during the process of giving birth and changing diapers, they actually begin to belive they have this supernatural sense.

Don't worry about how bad things look right now. It's all going to fall into place. You'll see.

Sure, I'm flamboyant. I can afford to be--I'm a damn good lawyer. You've got to ring the bell to get the people into the temple.

There may be better lawyers than I, but so far I haven't come across any of them in court.