Quotes About Confidence

Strengthening our identity is one way of reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being.

Well-being is how I feel in my skin, not about how other people are looking at me and what they see... it's what I feel like.

I wish that we, as women, spent as much time on the well-being of our insides as we do with our looks on the outside.

Throughout elementary and middle school, I was used to hearing other words: Smart. Studious. Well-spoken. Well-read. They became pillars of my self-confidence, enabling me to build myself up on what I contributed rather than what I looked like.

Earlier, I would never focus on how I looked because I thought I was just 'OK.' So my focus was on being well-read, good in studies, school captain. My personality depended on what I read, not on some magical genetic thing.

I'm well-read as far as literary fiction, but I wanted to make better decisions about my writing, to use words or phrases more confidently by learning how your words can be interpreted, the shades of meaning, the different connotations.

It's nice to sort of walk in and at least create the illusion that you are, or your character is, a well-rounded human being, a complete person. Especially when you're playing these impressive, high-functioning professionals. You feel like you have to come in sort of guns blazing.

I'm pretty well-rounded. I can do most of my tricks left and right, in both directions. I try to be smooth and confident. But it's still developing. I'm still trying to find my own personal touch in the way I ski.

In my latest 'Mirzapur,' I had no pressure actually to match up the level of other people in terms of performance because all of our characters were well-written. So there was no sense of insecurity.

I never want to try to be a spokesperson for health and wellness because I most definitely am not the most in shape person in the world.

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes.

I've made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them.

If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.

Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.

I think I'm capable of doing the job at any club in the world, so I'm sure I can do it at West Ham.

Look at someone like Kanye West - ego is the death of a lot of art. To believe in yourself that much is to stop being an artist.

We didn't think we were a fourth-place team. For us to beat the first-place team in the West and the first-place team in the East shows the dedication and determination that we had.

I really feel confident about my dancing now, so I hope there could be a place for me in the West End or on Broadway - maybe a musical, maybe my own show.

If I convince myself that I'm going contest in West Coast, I will go. It doesn't matter who else comes because that's your belief.

A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence.

I always felt so much more comfortable in the Western. The minute I got a horse and a hat and a pair of boots on, I felt easier. I didn't feel like I was an actor anymore. I felt like I was the guy out there doing it.

A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at all.

All I've ever wanted to be is a strong, powerful, beautiful black woman.

Famous people I've interviewed - powerful people, brilliant people, people whom you look at and think, 'Seriously, do you not have pores?' - have turned to me after interviews and asked, 'Was I okay? I hope I was okay.'