Quotes About Confidence

knowing full well that I looked like something any self-respecting cat would refuse to drag in.

One must use caution in sharing secrets or drawing others into a confidence. Be certain a friend possesses the skills necessary to remain silent.

It's hard not to act like you know it all when you do.

Well, I just think that is the problem, you put up with it instead of speaking your mind.

A nice girl should never go anywhere without a loaded gun and a big knife." ~ Sarah Agnes Prine

To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.

Más tarde, ella me dijo que no le importaba lo que pensara nadie, excepto yo.

We won't do that," Annie said firmly when we were back downstairs in the kitchen, heating some mushroom soup. "We won't, we won't. If people are shocked, let them be.

You know the great thing about Truman," he told Goodwin, "is that once he makes up his mind about something—anything, including the A bomb—he never looks back and asks 'should I have done it? Oh! Should I have done it?' No, he just knows he made up his mind as best he could and that's that. There's no going back. I wish I had some of that quality.

I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.

At twenty, with a modicum of discipline and luck, you can invent your own appearance. You're smooth and svelte, silky and shimmery, you make original choices in clothing and hairstyles... 'I'm my own woman now,' you think; 'I don't owe anything to anyone!

You must not let them bother you, Leisha," he said in his wonderful accent. "Not ever. There is an old Asian proverb: 'The dogs bark but the caravan moves on.' You must never let your individual caravan be slowed by the barking of rude or envious dogs.

Even those schizoid people who are confident of the superiority of their perceptions are not indifferent to the effect they may have in alienating others.

I hope I'll never get ambitious enough to try anything. It's so much nicer to be damned sure I could do it better than other people - and I might not could if I tried...

For who would I be if I tried to be someone besides Jane? The poser of the world try so hard to be what they are not, and yet... how fatigued they must be Perhaps I am not smart enough to be one of them. Nor strong enough in constitution.

faith is based not on what we see and know, but on what we believe to be true through the reading of God's word. The

You can be utterly confident that any non-biblical worldview will be too "small" to account for all of reality.

Christian art should grow out of the robust confidence that nothing is unredeemable—that Jesus himself entered into the darkest levels of human experience and transformed them into sources of life and renewal.

Only people who understand that Christianity is true to the real world are capable of the relaxed confidence that allows them to be open, patient, and loving toward those who differ from them.

No child ever has too much self-esteem. If you take every possible opportunity to point out what children do well, praise them descriptively for it and express appreciation, your child will become more cooperative, competent and confident.

I think," he says at last, "that it is a great pity she will not trust in me.

If I've gotta go down, I'm gonna go down in style.

Where's your self-respect? Why don't you get yourself in control? Life cannot hang on the love of one other person; you have got to hang your life on yourself.

My biggest Buff Orpinton rooster is on the small corral fence letting the world know he is in charge, all puffed up and sassy. There is nothing more silly than a rooster taking over the world, but every day he things he can. I wonder if we are just a little part of the world, like that rooster, and that the real things go on around us while we strut in our own yards trying to take charge of things.