Quotes About Confidence

People respect candor if they are confident their leaders have a plan for moving forward.

When I have found men mere politicians, bending to the popular breeze and changing with it, for the self-popularity, I have ever shunned them, believing that they were unworthy of my confidence—but still treat them with hospitality and politeness.

You combine insecurity and ambition, and you get an inability to say no to things.

Bad liars always think they're good at it. (quoting Michael Moynihan)

aplomb. I had managed to portray myself as a good Jew and

I love the way you talk. You just let it flow from you as if you own all the words in the world. They're your personal property and you make them dance for you.

BUYING A PAIR OF shoes is one of the most optimistic acts I know, next to falling in love. I like nothing better than to see an old man wearing a brand new pair of brogues or cap-toed oxfords, preferably jaunty orange-brown, unscuffed, heels unworn. We want to be here tomorrow, but buying new shoes, like falling in love, says I plan on being here tomorrow.

Most men think they are good drivers. Most women think they are good in bed. They aren't.

It's easy to believe in yourself when you're lying, because you're talking about someone else

He had a happy canine way of seeking approval without seeming insecure.

She quickly discovered that the world is divided into people who know how to be comfortable by themselves on a bar chair and people who do not.

The dream of radical transformation: of one day waking up and finding himself a wholly different (more confident, more serene) kind of person, of escaping that prison of the given, of feeling divinely capable.

To her the strangest thought of all was that she might be extraordinarily appealing. It went against everything she believed in, or at least against everything she wanted to believe in; because, deep down, in her most honest heart, maybe every person considered herself extraordinarily appealing. Maybe this was just a human thing.

Why I'm dolling myself up like this…" "You're putting on armor. You want to be strong.

She hated this feeling, the sensation of trying and failing to get her arms around something big. The way political opinions seemed always to be expressed with a total sureness of tone. The way that sureness was at odds with every true thought she'd ever had.

The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time *isn't*.

It's so hard to express yourself.' I understand this.' I want to express myself.' The same is true for me.' I'm looking for my voice.' It's in your mouth.' I want to do something I'm not ashamed of.' Something you are proud of, yes?' Not even. I just don't want to be ashamed.

I think it's very pretty. Can it be pretty if no one thinks it's pretty? I think it's pretty. If you're the only one? That's pretty pretty. And what about the boys? Don't you want them to think you're pretty? I wouldn't want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty.

Can't you even tell me if I'm on the right track? Buckminster purred, and Dad shrugged his shoulders again. But if you don't tell me anything, how can I ever be right? He circled something in an article and said, Another way of looking at it would be, how could you ever be wrong?

I wouldn't want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty.

Look, I'm not always right. I realize that. But I'm always strong.

I'm sure people tell you this constantly, but if you looked up 'incredibly beautiful' in the dictionary, there would be a picture of you. She cracked up a bit and said, People never tell me that. I bet they do. She cracked up a bit more. They don't. Then you hang out with the wrong people. You might be right about that. Because you're incredibly beautiful.

Oh, how we need to grasp the soul-settling hope found in the pages of God's Word--not only grasp it, but allow the hope of God to fill and overflow our hearts, transforming us into people who are confident and at peace with themselves, their God, and their circumstances.

Estoy hablando de no vivir temblando ante la fantasía de ser rechazado por aquellos con los cuales no acuerdo. Estoy hablando, finalmente, del coraje de ser quien soy.