Quotes About Confidence

She fastened the invisible corset of her composure snugly around herself and prepared to move forward with her plan.

No one gets away with committting murder on the premises." "No exceptions?" she asked. His smile was as cold as his eyes. "One exception." "You," she said. "Me." She took a short, tight breath. "But you didn't kill Gloria Maitland," she said. "What makes you so sure I didn't murder her?" "You're a magician. You would have done a better job of it.

I'm most comfortable in my birthday suit.

I think I'm past the age of getting lost.

If she'd learned anything about herself over the years it was that self-doubt inevitably led to self-destruction.

When I receive letters from girls that say, 'You give me confidence ' I think, 'Wow, this is amazing.' That's my goal: to let people know it's truly what's on the inside that counts.

I could get rejected for jobs in acting, directing, or writing for the rest of my life, but nothing would ever take away what the experience of directing my first feature film had taught me: that I know myself better than I think I do and that I know my worth better than others think they do.

To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

To be positive To be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

I ask for trust. It is a lot, I know; it isn't easy to give. But it is all I ask.

Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done.

Don't criticize someone doing something you said couldn't be done

Did I tell you I have a reputation for brains?

The church degraded woman by destroying her self-respect and teaching her to feel consciousness of guilt in the very fact of her existence. To this day, an open, confident look upon a woman's face is deprecated as evil. Death by torture was the method of the church for the repression of woman's intellect, knowledge being held as evil and dangerous in her hands.

Dream Big. Nope, BIGGER. Ignore those who laugh at your goals. They will need that sense of humor when they're fetching your coffee.

Whitman said, 'I am as bad as the worst but, thank God, I am as good as the best.' You ought to spend more time with people who know how bad they are.

Your father says you're the smart one." "Not the pretty one," I said. I was mortified. "Oh, you can fake pretty," she said.

Confidence in one's abilities and knowledge, when warranted, is far preferable to false modesty. But humility is not modesty, false or otherwise. Humility is the simple recognition that you don't have all the answers, and you certainly don't have a crystal ball. Research shows that when leaders express humility, teams engage in more learning behavior.

Another way to think about the voice-silence asymmetry is captured in the phrase "no one was ever fired for silence." The instinct to play it safe is powerful. People in organizations don't spontaneously take interpersonal risks. We don't want to stumble into a sacred cow. We can be completely confident that we'll be safe if we are silent, and we lack confidence that our voices will really make a difference – a voice inhibiting combination.

What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you're good at it[...] Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America. Once a child starts to excel at something—whether it's math, piano, pitching or ballet—he or she gets praise, admiration and satisfaction. This builds confidence and makes the once not-fun activity fun.

I think I can do it," Lulu said. She had a lot of confidence, and, as long as it wasn't me forcing it on her, she loved a challenge.

Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it.

But when I asked Fred directly about the oft-misunderstood concept of self-esteem, he said, "Now self-esteem is certainly not brought about by people saying that a child has done something wonderful when that person doesn't believe it.

words from an article I had once written on Tolkien's The Hobbit: "Adventure can be scary and unpredictable, but the more you continue in it, the more you lose that sense of fear and doubt (and the less you care about being late for dinner). You begin to gather up your internal resources with confidence.