Quotes About Confidence

It's mostly the financial chicanery that's going on. People are saying 'What kind of trust can we put in this market?'

He was scared and he felt vulnerable and the last thing on earth he wanted was to try to make friends with these strangers. He wished with all his heart that Joyce were here with him. After all, it was always easier to meet new people if there were two of you. It gave you confidence and made you feel at ease. Look, it said to the world, I already have one friend so I can't be all that bad. And Joyce always made him feel like his best self anyway, so there would be no resisting him.

I learned that if someone tells you to be on the safe side lots of times then after a while they do not need to say it.

Hubert did not want to go into this room. He was scared and he felt vulnerable and the last think on earth he wanted was to try to make friends with these strangers. He wished with all his heart that Joyce were here with him. After all, it was always easier to meet new people if there were two of you. It gave you confidence and made you feel at ease. Look, it said to the world, I already have one friend so I can't be all that bad.

After all, it was always easier to meet new people if there were two of you. It gave you confidence and made you feel at ease.

The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.

Behold! For now I wear the human pants!

In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.

I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.

You can handle anything anybody throws at you

I never look for help when I'm the one who loaded the bases.

With trust, everything is possible.

Never give up. If you want to be something, be conceited about it, give yourself a chance. Never say you are not good, that will never get you anywhere. Set goals, That's what life is made of.

Do not say to yourself, "I've got a book in me!" (huge cliché anyway) and assume that means you are also competent to write a book.

Nerves provide me with energy. They work for me. It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that I get worried.

That was so f*cking money. That was like the Jedi mind-shit

Faith is the manifestation of courage, confidence, kindness, compassion, foregiveness and humility combined.

We don't live in our fears, we live in our hopes.

I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.

I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.

In the midst of my spleen and my yearnings for the past, and despite these ridiculous cramped circumstances I find myself in, in this vile room in this foul apartment-block, I sometimes experience, as at this moment, bursts of confidence and strength. And I become aware of the thought darting up in me that it is true, I am immeasurably more powerful a writer than any of those I know. But in conditions such as the ones I have presently to endure I may have to kowtow to them.

You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.

she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.

But you know I am not of the "afraid" kind. I am not boasting. That is a characteristic, not a quality. One is afraid or one is not. It happens that I am not.