Quotes About Confidence

Genuine humility is based on a realistic self-appraisal and a healthy feeling of self-worth.

There is Someone dancing with you and you no longer need to prove to anyone that you are right, nor are you afraid of making mistakes. Another word for that is faith.

People who know who they are find it the easiest to know who they aren't.

He does not know the outcome ahead of time, or his confidence would be in himself and God to pull it off, which would then largely be a matter of the willpower of belief. Faith is so much more than strong willpower

Most get little reassurance from others, or even have full confidence that they are totally right. Setting out is always a leap of faith, a risk in the deepest sense of the term, and yet an adventure too.

At 53, she was through with the foolishness of men's genitals. In fact, it had been many years since she had cared what hairy things dangled between their pale, scrawny legs. She now considered the fact that she had ever cared a kind of temporary lunacy and was thankful that her madness had been short lived, not terribly virulent and ultimately cured by marriage as God intended.

There was something about spending money they didn't really have that made him optimistic about more coming in.

These days his own storytelling was undermined by his stammer, as well as by his conviction that a story had to be true.

When someone loves you," she went on, "you don't have to wish for it to be so. You just know it is.

Weakness with watchfulness will stand, when strength with too much confidence fails. Weakness, with acknowledgement of it, is the fittest seat and subject for God to perfect his strength in; for consciousness of our infirmities drives us out of ourselves to him in whom our strength lies.

The contest is a lion fight. So chin up, put your shoulders back, walk proud, strut a little. Don't lick your wounds. Celebrate them. The scars you bear are the sign of a competitor. You're in a lion's fight. Just because you didn't win doesn't mean you don't know how to roar.

Like you have to constantly prove your worth. From the movies that you watch to the songs on your radio. Down to the magazines placed ever so neatly in the grocery house, you know the ones with the movie stars. Since they wouldn't make any money if you already loved who you are. See there is no profit in saying you're already perfect and beautiful too.

You're trying to believe in yourself. And every time you try to find a way to live, your own mind stands in the way. You know why that is? It's because others have said you were bad and they made you live in bad conditions. When a man hears that over and over and looks about him and sees that his life is bad, he begins to doubt his own mind. His feelings drag him forward and his mind, full of what others say about him, tells him to go back

You mean you can't fix it?" "I can fix anything, cher. " "That's not my name," she corrected him. And aren't you just pretty impressed with yourself, Mr. Repair Guy.

Was he absolutely certain she about her? Yes.

Monkey bar, Annabeth said. I'm great at these. She leaped onto to the first rung and start swinging her way across. She was scared of tiny spiders, but not of plummeting to her death from a set of monkey bars. Go figure.

I'm Dylan. I'm so cool. I want to date myself, but I don't know how! You want to date me instead? You're so lucky!

I'm the Super-sized McShizzle, man! Leo said. I'm Leo Valdez, bad boy supreme. And the ladies love a bad boy.

I learned a long time ago: Never bet against Annabeth.

Oh my god, I am so awesome! Leo bellowed. So awesome! Echo yelled back. He is funny, a nymph ventured. And cute, in a scrawny way, another said. Scrawny? Leo asked. Baby I invented scrawny. Scrawny is the new sizzling hot.

But beauty is about finding the right fit, the most natural fit, To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself --- avoid trying to be something you're not. For a goddess, that's especially hard. We can change so easily. -Aphrodite

There were a lot of answers I might've given, from I knew that to LIAR! to Yeah right, and I'm Zeus. - Percy, after Quintus says that he is Daedalus

You stood up to the dragon so Beckendorf would have his chance to jump - now that was brave. Or pretty stupid. Percy, you're a brave guy, she said. Just take the compliment. I swear, is it so hard?

You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you chicken man?