Quotes About Confidence

A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.

Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.

From the exoplanet data, astronomers can now say with confidence that one out of every five stars hosts a world where life as we know it could form. So, when you're standing out there under the night sky, choose five random stars. Chances are, one of them has a world in its Goldilocks zone where liquid water could be flowing across its surface and life might already exist.

Having a sense of security in one realm gives us the freedom to be original in another. By covering our bases financially, we escape the pressure to publish half-baked books, sell shoddy art, or launch untested businesses.

Having a sense of security in one realm gives us the freedom to be original in another.

Confidence is a measure of how much you believe in yourself. Evidence shows that's distinct from how much you believe in your methods. You can be confident in your ability to achieve a goal in the future while maintaining the humility to question whether you have the right tools in the present. That's the sweet spot of confidence.

It takes confident humility to admit that we're a work in progress. It shows that we care more about improving ourselves than proving ourselves.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." —ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Confidence. That's the word that came to mind, one that I would never before have used to describe any part of my life.

I know this," the Second Mate said. "A sexy girl thinks she can do anything.

'Come out' is so funny to me because I've never been in.

Fear is contempt, whether the fearful know it or don't.

Desormie, ahead of me, hummed out a melody with lipfart percussion and aggressively dance-walked and thought it was strutting.

Do I really have moves like Jagger? F**king A, no, I don't. But I was going to tell everybody that I did and hoped they believed me.

True, in her gown she had a fuller figure—but cltohes make some things smaller, some things bigger.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge . . . says Darwin in The Descent of Man, his study of the evolution of humans from our hairier ancestors.

I'm smiling because I know perfectly well what I am and I honestly don't give a damn what you think of me

I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that.

People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look.

It's never been an issue for me - I don't want to go on a diet, I don't want to eat a Caesar salad with no dressing, why would I do that? I ain't got time for this, just be happy and don't be stupid. If I've got a boyfriend and he loves my body then I'm not worried.

Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes.

Kids, this is a tough problem, but I have confidence that you two can put your heads together and come up with a solution that you can both agree to.

We give our love, our labor, our knowledge, and our experience—so that one day he or she will have the inner strength and confidence to leave us.

Not that I was morbidly obese or anything. But I guess I was hanging on the hope that one day I might accidentally whittle down to my inner toothpick.