Quotes About Confidence

What are the conditions that make for the superiority of an army? Its internal organization, military habits in officers and men, the confidence of each in themselves; that is to say, bravery, patience, and all that is contained in the idea of moral means.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.

If you have more than one reason to do something (choose a doctor or veterinarian, hire a gardener or an employee, marry a person, go on a trip), just don't do it. It does not mean that one reason is better than two, just that by invoking more than one reason you are trying to convince yourself to do something. Obvious decisions (robust to error) require no more than a single reason.

Learn to play the drums. The world needs more girl drummers. The world needs your wild, pounding, dreaming heart.

And don't worry too much about security. You will eventually have a deep security when you begin to do what you want.

What crannies of untouched perception can you explore? What autumn was it that moon entered your life? When was it that you picked blueberries at their quintessential moment? How long did you wait for your first true bike? Who were your angels? What are you thinking of? Not thinking of? Writing can give you confidence, can train you to wake up.

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

I don't care, I don't care, I don't care what they think.

Even Robot Girls get nervous sometimes. -Beatrice Szabo

The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, I said to my friend, 'Now, that's a close-up.' I mean, you see every inch of my body. But I'm okay with it and so it was cool.

It was her stunning blend of confidence and competence that inspired them, her indomitable will, her ability to bend a harsh landscape to her own ends, to do what needed to be done to provide for herself and her family every day, without fail.

Success makes you less intimidated by things.

Confidence is a sense of certainty about your ability, which allows you to bypass conscious thought and execute unconsciously.

a sense of certainty about your ability, which allows you to bypass conscious thought and execute unconsciously.

a sense of certainty—that feeling of having complete faith . . . about your ability—that you can do something or that you know something . . . which allows you to bypass conscious thought—so well you don't have to think about it . . . and execute unconsciously—so you perform it automatically and instinctively.

success in any field—be it sports, the arts, business, science, and certainly the military—requires both confidence AND competence.

Confidence is that feeling that you can do something (or that you know something) so well you don't have to think about how to do it when you're doing it. That skill or knowledge is in you, it's part of you, and it will come out when needed if you let it.

Lieutenant Colonel Jonas Anazagasty couldn't agree more. "Confidence," he says, "isn't the absence of doubt, it's the way you respond to doubt.

S.I.N.G.L.E Sometimes. I'll. Never. Go. Looking. Either.

To attain "success" without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure.

If we do have realistic confidence ... if we feel secure within ourselves, we tend to experience the world as open to us and to respond appropriately to challenges and opportunities. Self-esteem empowers, energizes, motivates. It inspires us to achieve and allows us to take pleasure and pride in our achievements.

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.