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Quotes About Confidence

Why should what i weigh affect other people? I mean, unless I'm sitting on them, who cares?
~ Jennifer Niven
It takes me about twenty seconds to forget about the staring faces and all that shiny, pulled-back hair and which of the girls on the bleachers may or may not be a better dancer than I am and the fact that I'm twice as big as anyone in this room. After that first thirty seconds, I disappear into the song. I become one with the music, one with the dance.
~ Jennifer Niven
You can be your best self wherever you are.
~ Jennifer Richard Jacobson
It's difficult admitting you're wrong. Even more difficult admitting it when you have scoffed and otherwise ridiculed the truth with blind, unremitting determination, so blithely confident in your own infallibility. But then one day -- or one night -- the truth is put into your hands, and you realize those stories and songs and legends told by Northern strangers are truths after all, and that no one has lied to you.
~ Jennifer Roberson
Don't point out your flaws, because the world is not as sympathetic and nurturing as you think.
~ Jennifer Tilly
He turned to her and smiled. "OK. And you paint. Men come and go," he said, wagging a finger. "Be good to yourself. What you have? Inside? That's permanent. Any man doesn't see that, doesn't deserve you.
~ Jennifer Vandever
Regular women carry pictures of their babies, their husbands, their summer houses. Fat ladies carry pictures of themselves at their skinniest.
~ Jennifer Weiner
As many times as I told her she was beautiful, I know that she never believed me. As many times as I said it didn't matter, I knew that to her it did.
~ Jennifer Weiner
A nice manner and a level head would surely get you much further. But that didn't cut much with the big cheeses, who liked flakey mission statements and loud, confident remarks.
~ Jenny Colgan
She had always been dainty, and never quite confident enough to dance where anyone might see. Here, though, nobody cared or noticed. The emphasis wasn't on looking good or being sexy or standing out; it was about hurling yourself into it and dancing as if you didn't have a care in the world, or a worry, or even a thought; it was dancing as catharsis, and Nina very quickly found that she absolutely loved it.
~ Jenny Colgan
sometimes she felt the world wasn't built for people like her. Confident, big-personality people like Surinder simply didn't understand. If you weren't an extrovert, if you weren't shoving yourself out into the open all the time, posting selfies everywhere, demanding attention, talking constantly, people just gazed right past you. You got overlooked. And normally she didn't mind.
~ Jenny Colgan
I'll consider myself in my prime when I stop getting zits," said Helena.
~ Jenny Colgan
But sometimes she felt the world wasn't built for people like her. Confident, big-personality people like Surinder simply didn't understand. If you weren't an extrovert, if you weren't shoving yourself out into the open all the time, posting selfies everywhere, demanding attention, talking constantly, people just gazed right past you. You got overlooked. And normally she didn't mind.
~ Jenny Colgan
Sometimes I think I'll never trust another girl the way I trust you.
~ Jenny Han
You've just gotta hold your head up and act like you don't give a shit
~ Jenny Han
There are certain outfits you have that make you feel good every time you wear them, and then there are outfits where you wore them too many times in a row because you liked them so much, and now they just feel like garbage.
~ Jenny Han
A reckless driver is better than a scared one; ask anybody
~ Jenny Han
Some girls are pretty and they were born for it but no matter what always be yourself because people might see the wrong side of you
~ Jenny Han
Maybe it's not that I'm a Mysterious Girl. Maybe it's that I'm a Not Good Enough Girl.
~ Jenny Han
Stormy, who was larger than life, who taught me how to apply red lipstick "so it lasts even after a night of kisses and champagne," she said. I
~ Jenny Han
Triumphantly he says, "Did you predict that, Lara Jean?
~ Jenny Han
My second thought was, I'm prettier than her.
~ Jenny Han
There are certain outfits you have that make you feel good every time you wear them, and then there are outfits where you wore them too many times in a row because you liked them so much, and now they just feel like garbage. I'm looking at my closet now and everything is garbage.
~ Jenny Han
You know, you're an interesting girl, Lara Jean. You seem shy and kind of babyish at first, but you're actually very confident. That was a compliment, by the way." "Thanks," I say. If someone is giving you a compliment, I don't think they should have to tell you they're giving you one; it should probably be obvious to the person receiving it.
~ Jenny Han