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Quotes About Confidence

We're not quite so bumbling and hopeless as you like to think.
~ Nigel Kneale
Hören Sie auf niemanden, der Ihnen sagt, Sie sollten nicht allein trinken.
~ Nigel Slater
Even if I believe my opinion to be true, and am highly confident about its truth, unless it is 'fully, frequently and fearlessly' discussed, I will end up holding it as a dead dogma, a formulaic and unthinking response.
~ Nigel Warburton
when confidence is undermined or ruptured, it can be difficult to do the simplest things, or to take any enjoyment even in trying.
~ Nigella Lawson
Let there be no hesitations, no regrets, no compromises - they are at once cowardly and vain.
~ Nikki Gemmell
show me someone not full of herself and i'll show you a hungry person
~ Nikki Giovanni
For most of my life, I've thought of myself as pretty cool.
~ Nikki Giovanni
I am so hip even my errors are correct.
~ Nikki Giovanni
You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.
~ Nikki Giovanni
Deal with yourself as a individual worthy of respect, and make everyone else deal with you the same way.
~ Nikki Giovanni
Round still, but that's fine. Feeling good outside and in. Maybe I'm not thin, but skinny isn't perfect. The perfect size is happy.
~ Nikki Grimes
Don't bother about what people say, mija," he told me. "Let them talk. They only prove their ignorance." I know my father's right. I also know that words have teeth. Sometimes I get tired of the bite marks.
~ Nikki Grimes
I know who I am. That's what's important—not proving something to some strangers I don't even care about
~ Nikki Grimes
Maybe I'm not thin, but skinny isn't perfect. The perfect size is happy.
~ Nikki Grimes
Is there more to me? Sure. Kids yell 'albino boy.' I don't turn around. Choose the name you answer to. No one can do that but you.
~ Nikki Grimes
I woke up this morning exhausted from hiding the me of me. So I stand here confiding there's more to Devon than jump shot and rim. I'm more than tall and lengthy of limb. I dare you to peep behind these eyes, discover the poet in tough-guy disguise. Don't call me Jump Shot. My name is surprise.
~ Nikki Grimes
I'm an artist...The difference is that I don't tell anybody. I refuse to give them new reasons to laugh at me.
~ Nikki Grimes
What are we to do with what we have written down? Certainly at first, we will produce mostly garbage. But we have been educated to expect something useful from our activities, and soon lose confidence if nothing useful seems to result. We should therefore reflect on whether and how we arrange our notes so they are available for later access.
~ Niklas Luhmann
Step up and don't be afraid
~ Unknown
What do you want?" in a curt hard voice, which he had practised in his room in private, and before the looking-glass, for a whole week before being raised to his present rank.
~ Nikolai Gogol
Siccome l'uomo russo nei momenti decisivi conserva la presenza di spirito, e fa quel che c'è da fare senza inoltrarsi in altri ragionamenti, così, prendendo a destra al primo incrocio, egli gridò: "Forza su, rispettabili amici", e si lanciò al galoppo senza preoccuparsi troppo di pensare a dove conducesse la strada che aveva preso.
~ Nikolai Gogol
I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
For I realize today that it is a mortal sin to violate the great laws of nature. We should not hurry, we should not be impatient, but we should confidently obey the eternal rhythm.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis