Quotes About Confidence

Believe me, Paul, when you're in a jam the truth is the only thing solid enough and substantial enough to rely on.

Sometimes you're on top and things are easy. Sometimes you're on the bottom. There's no need to let it worry you.

the words of young Ted Kennedy, Jr., who lost his leg to cancer. People are taught we should look perfect, he said. I wondered who would ever go out with a kid with one leg.

THOU SHALT NOT PUNISH THYSELF BY TRYING ON A BATHING SUIT WEARING KNEE HI'S.

If the frustrations are not surrounded by anxiety, fear of life, insecure love and support, then the child progresses easily and naturally to the new challenges of a symbolic, social way of life. The child that we call, typically, autistic or schizophrenic, is the one who has not been able to feel this secure sense of support to his body; and so he does not make a confident transition from the biological to the social world. The "lever" of

The person has to learn to derive his self-esteem more from within himself and less from the opinions of others; he has to try to base it on real qualities and capacities, things he can make or do

when people do not have self-esteem they cannot act, they break down.

Generally, the more anxious and insecure we are, the more we invest in these symbolic extensions of ourselves.

ALFRED ADLER (in Ansbacher, 1946, p. 358) "The supreme law [of life] is this: the sense of worth of the self shall not be allowed to be diminished.

Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.

You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.

It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.

I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

He'll never be frightened. He knows too damn much.

Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar.

Never be daunted

Brett was damned good-looking. She wore a slip-over jersey sweater and a tweed skirt, and her hair was brushed back like a boy's. She started all that. She was built with curves like the hull of a racing yacht, and you missed none of it with that wool jersey.

don't ask me a lot of questions if you don't like the answers

Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.

The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.

Even if he was ever afraid he knew that he could do it anyway.

If I do it you won't ever worry?' 'I won't worry about that because it's perfectly simple.' Then I'll do it. Because I don't care about me.

He had only one thing to do and that was what he should think about and he must think it out clearly and take everything as it came along, and not worry. To worry was a bad as to be afraid. It simply made things more difficult.