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Quotes About Confidence

I still wore the rank of a 1st lieutenant. But that was okay because I knew my job, my company, the men, and I felt confident that under fire, I had the right answers. Which gets me to the point: I was a "half-breed." An officer yes, but at heart an enlisted man.
~ Dick Winters
All we can do is to live in assurance and faith – you out there with the soldiers, and I in my cell. – I've just come across this in the Imitation of Christ: Custodi diligenter cellam tuam, et custodiet te ('Take good care of your cell, and it will take care of you'). – May God keep us in faith.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror, couldn't feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.
~ Dionne Warwick
Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
~ Disraeli
My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created.
~ Dita Von Teese
Physical beauty isn't so impressive to me.
~ Dita Von Teese
Don't save your good lingerie for dates, wear it for you.
~ Dita Von Teese
The new acts' major influences were movies and their curvy queens Brigitte Bardot and Marilyn Monroe. With their big blonde hair, ample breasts, and highly fertile hips, these bombshells inspired women everywhere to exxagerate their own voluptuousness.
~ Dita Von Teese
I'm more attracted to glamour than natural beauty. The young Marilyn Monroe was a pretty girl in a sea of pretty girls. Then she had her hair bleached, fake eyelashes, and that's when she became extraordinary. It's that idea of what you're not born with, you can create.
~ Dita Von Teese
I make a point to never, ever point out my physical flaws… this is advice I give to women as often as I can. People don't notice the things we see in ourselves that we hate, so why direct them to it?
~ Dita Von Teese
I advocate glamour. Every day. Every minute.
~ Dita Von Teese
When someone calls another individual ugly, all I see is that the one doing the insulting becomes instantly less beautiful. Consider it a compliment to be mocked for being different.
~ Dita Von Teese
I always say, either take the steps to lose the weight you keep threatening to lose, or love the way you are.
~ Dita Von Teese
Everyone, no matter her or his stage in life, has the right to feel beautiful.
~ Dita Von Teese
I'm for anyone trying any kind of look. The only barrier is yourself. Do not worry about what other people think. - Angelique Noire
~ Dita Von Teese
I say, enhance what others might deem less than wow and make that your beauty mark.
~ Dita Von Teese
Everyone else can go ahead and live in their beige movie. I prefer mine in Technicolor. They might all look at me and they might talk about me and they might think I'm weird. And you know what? I couldn't possibly disappoint them. So let's not. Instead, let's show them how it's done.
~ Dita Von Teese
A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.
~ Djuna Barnes
There is nothing in this world that I fear to say.
~ Dmitri Mendeleev
Ne veruj ni u šta što se na strahu temelji.
~ Dobrica ?osi?
Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority.
~ Doctor Who
Every morning I start with a drink from my cup of sunshine, to remind myself of who I am before I step into the world of "this is who we think you are."
~ Dodinsky
Your value is the product of your thoughts. Do not miscalculate your self worth by multiplying your insecurities.
~ Dodinsky
We are like the little branch that quivers during a storm, doubting our strength and forgetting we are the tree — deeply rooted to withstand all of life's upheavals.
~ Dodinsky