Quotes About Confidence

Confidence is everything. Confidence is what makes that simple white tee and jeans look good.

I keep pushing for the Crest Whitestrips thing. I get so many compliments on how white my teeth are, but I have to say it's not because of my brushing skills. It's from Crest Whitestrips, and that's the honest truth. I don't believe in going to the dentist and paying for whitening.

It's not normal for a white guy to get corn rows; a lot of people judged me. I like the way it looks, so you have to be confident.

I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.

I wear white or pale-blue shirts and black knit ties: They don't draw attention to me in any kind of peacockish way.

It's not hard to get your way when it's your way or the highway. People either follow suit or they're not around. I don't really like the sound of that, 'cause that sounds like a temper tantrum. I'm just very black and white when it comes to my business. There's really no gray area.

As an attorney, I could be rather flamboyant in court. I did not act as though I were a black man in a white man's court, but as if everyone else - white and black - was a guest in my court. When trying a case, I often made sweeping gestures and used high-flown language.

To be white in America is to assume, with total self-confidence and little afterthought, the personal ownership of public spaces.

When you study a dog you love, you find beauty in every small detail, and so it is with Lucille: I have become enchanted by the small asymmetrical whorls of white fur on either side of her chest, and by her tail, which she carries in a high confident curve, and by her eyes, which are watchful and intelligent, the color of chestnuts.

My relationship with aging is cozy. I'm not trying to play 29 and holding on with white knuckles, you know?

Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.

I feel most bossy in jeans, a white t-shirt, a leather jacket and some heels. I just feel bossy that way. I also feel confident in a sick dress at a premiere. Like most women, as long as I'm comfortable in it, I feel confident.

When I first went on Strictly' I had a little phase at the beginning, you know, when I was sat next to this really beautiful lady, Darcey Bussell - this ballerina, this Snow White beauty - that I stopped eating until I looked at myself and realized I looked so gaunt.

I wasn't cocky, just confident; I went to an all black school, a white kid.

For example, I was privileged to be working at the White House under the Clinton administration and had not finished my Ph.D., and I thought I was the cat's meow.

If I'm not comfortable, I'm not happy. When I go to the White House, I wear my jeans.

It was difficult to find my way into 'I Am Abraham,' to feel confident enough to inhabit Lincoln's persona. I began with a prologue in a neutral voice, wrote of Lincoln at the White House with a sly young reporter quizzing him about his humble origins.

I just feel like a completely different person confidence-wise, just being able to walk around feeling like an actual athlete that's in pretty good shape.

You never want to be the one who everyone is going to bust jokes on. The only way to prevent that is to be good at something.

We have to build further on the collaboration with business and labor to restore confidence and prevent an investment downgrade.

We felt like when we went into last year we had a pretty good chance to win the championship from the previous year with the fall we put together. We've got the same everything now, so I think we can come back and be as strong this year.

I'm competing with myself to outdo previous achievements, but I can't feel any pressure from the fans, the media or the people at all because I know what I'm capable of.

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

Though it's a small price to pay, shaving my head has opened more doors than I ever thought possible.