Quotes About Confidence

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I knew I was worthless and at the same time I was convinced somebody would find me worthy, would worship me for this sexual allure so foreign to my understanding yet so central to my being.

Real men don't moisturise.

I'm not much to look at, replied Elizabeth, but I'm beautiful inside.

She stood with her legs slightly apart, tightening the shimmery fabric of her floor-length formal. It was an appealing pose to Barney, giving just a hint of tomboyishness within the confines of the gown.

A reformer should be exempt from the suspicion of interest, and he must possess the confidence and esteem of those whom he proposes to reclaim.

It is the aid of God! exclaimed the bishop, in a tone of pious confidence; and the whole multitude repeated after him, It is the aid of God.

It was evident that Madame Restell not only liked to do as she pleased, but to talk about it as well.

You believe it?" "A man should always believe his wife, sir.

He thought of one of the guiding mottoes of his father's life: 'Never apologize, never explain.

When you are confident that you are the Father's treasured possession, you are also confident that his loving care will continue forever. Building warehouses is a waste of time and space. His gifts to you become things you want to give him back in gratitude. Then he gives you even more.

When you are fully confident that your Father is just, you know that injustice will not prosper. You will not become angry when offenses are committed against you because you will leave it in his hands.

My losses have taught me that I must not begin to advance until I am sure I shall not have to retreat. But

A man must believe in himself and his judgment if he expects to make a living at this game.

Without faith in his own judgment no man can go very far in this game. That is about all I have learned to study general conditions, to take a position and stick to it.

the old story of the man who was going to fight a duel the next day. His second asked him, Are you a good shot? Well, said the duelist, I can snap the stem of a wineglass at twenty paces, and he looked modest. That's all very well, said the unimpressed second. But can you snap the stem of the wineglass while the wineglass is pointing a loaded pistol straight at your heart?

I quite cold-bloodedly reached the conclusion that I would never be able to accomplish anything useful so long as I was worried.

Well, this is a bull market, you know

began. What beat me was not having brains enough to stick to my own game—that is, to play the market only when I was satisfied that precedents favored my play. There

People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.

People's beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it