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Quotes About Confidence

No demuestres humildad a menos que la sientas.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Caution suits an arcanist. Assurance suits a namer. Fear does not suit either.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
only fools and priests are never afraid. But it is true that very few things unnerved him.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Se dio cuenta de que en el fondo podía contar a la gente todo cuanto quería; una vez había ganado su confianza -y confiaban en él tras el primer aliento con que inhalaban su aroma artificial-, se lo creían todo.
~ Patrick Süskind
Biliyor musunuz - bazen öyle korkuya kap?l?yorum ki, bazen ... bazen ... bazen evden ç?kmaya cesaret edemiyorum, öyle bir güven içindeyim. BoÅŸ zaman?mda -ki çok boÅŸ zaman?m var- evde oturmay? tercih ediyorum, korkudan, ÅŸimdiki gibi, nas?l anlatay?m size? Bir s?k??ma duygusu, bir bunalt?, deli gibi korkuyorum bu güvenlikten, bir çeÅŸit klostrofobi, sürekli iÅŸe yerleÅŸmiÅŸ olma psikozu...
~ Patrick Süskind
Besides which, he was a man who did not let his decisions be made for him by other people, not by a crowd thrown into panic, and certainly not by some anonymous piece of criminal trash.
~ Patrick Süskind
Se había esfumado el resto de temor, desvanecido el desaliento y la sombría preocupación que le habían atormentado como a un viejo senil y tembloroso, evaporado la niebla de tristes presagios en la que se había movido a tientas durante semanas. Ahora se encontraba en terreno conocido y se sentía capaz de afrontar cualquier reto.
~ Patrick Süskind
Think you can take me?" she said, putting up her dukes like a boxer. As a fighter, she made a great mage.
~ Unknown
Doing the right thing causes us to stand taller, dance more often, and step into life with more confidence.
~ Unknown
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind" (2 Timothy 1:7).
~ Unknown
Hope restores confidence
~ Unknown
All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don't let anybody crush your dream.
~ Patti LaBelle
So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.
~ Patti LaBelle
When we got to the part where we had to improvise an argument in a poetic language, I got cold feet. "I can't do this," I said. "I don't know what to say." "Say anything," he said. "You can't make a mistake when you improvise." "What if I mess it up? What if I screw up the rhythm?" "You can't," he said. "It's like drumming. If you miss a beat, you create another." In this simple exchange, Sam taught me the secret of improvisation, one that I have accessed my whole life.
~ Patti Smith
I'm going to promote myself exactly as I am, with all my weak points and my strong ones. My weak points are that I'm self-conscious and often insecure, and my strong point is that I don't feel any shame about it.
~ Patti Smith
I felt, watching Jim Morrison, that I could do that. I can't say why I thought this. I had nothing in my experience to make me think that would ever be possible, yet I harbored that conceit. I felt both kinship and contempt for him. I could feel his self-consciousness as well as his supreme confidence. He exuded a mixture of beauty and self-loathing, and mystic pain, like a West Coast Saint Sebastian. When
~ Patti Smith
This is it, this is mine.
~ Patti Smith
The knowledge of him added swagger to my step and this could not be stripped away.
~ Patti Smith
Back home I checked supplies—plenty of cat food, spaghetti, a few cans of sardines, peanut butter, and bottled water. Computer charged, candles, matches, a few flashlights, and an inbred cockiness that would eventually be challenged.
~ Patti Smith
But it was the work in a hall devoted to Picasso, from his harlequins to Cubism, that pierced me the most. His brutal confidence took my breath away.
~ Patti Smith
I had to find a diet that would kick me back into dating shape, because I know that I can't date at size 8. I have to date at size 2. And it's just a fact of nature. Go get your injections and your chemical peels. You gotta look good to attract a man.
~ Patti Stanger
Just because you're bossy," I tell her, "doesn't mean you're wrong.
~ Unknown
RESIGN! It's the way to show you mean business. If people constantly reject your ideas/ what you have to offer, resign. You can't keep fighting and losing that makes you a problem. If you are good, and right for the job, resignation will not be accepted. You'll be re-signed in your own term. If they accept your resignation, you were in the wrong job, and it's better for you to move on. It takes courage, but it is the right move.
~ Paul Arden
No one can ever amount to anything in this life without someone else to believe in him.
~ Paul Auster