Quotes About Confidence

She emanated that aura of grandeur that replaces sexual allure in the successful older woman.

there's nothing like Latin for slapping the fuck out of people who think they're better than you. I've used it several times to good effect.

Handsome in the manner of an Aryan prince, possessor of a trust fund, born to fulfill a preordained place in his family and the world; a man with all the confidence twelve generations of well-documented lineage can give.

She is a woman of an excellent assurance, and an extraordinary happy wit, and tongue. Ben Jonson, Epicoene, or The Silent Woman

Bestigui, who was five feet six inches at the most, had pushed his way out from behind his desk now; as unafraid of the enormous Strike as a pit bull whose yard has been invaded by a Rottweiler.

Not for the first time, he consoled himself that his hair looked the same whether brushed or unbrushed.

Naval aviation, they believed, was not inherently dangerous. Sure, there were risks, but if you were good—really good, like they were—nothing bad would happen.

Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself – your worth, your abilities, your potential. They will often disguise this as their objective opinion, but invariably it has a political purpose – they want to keep you down.

Few are born bold. Even Napoleon had to cultivate the habit on the battlefield, where he knew it was a matter of life and death. In social settings he was awkward and timid, but he overcame this and practice boldness in every part of his life because he saw its tremendous power, how it could literally enlarge a man(even one who, like Napoleon, was in fact conspicuously small).

Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated

The strong are free to trust, the weak constrained to.

For we and all the people testify that you are Righteous and do not respect persons. Therefore, persuade the people not to be led astray after Jesus, for all the people and ourselves have confidence in you. Therefore stand upon a wing of the Temple that you may be clearly visible from above and your words readily heard by all the people.16

The psychological fact of suggestion is that if statements are made again and again in a confident manner, without argument or proof, then their hearers will tend to believe them quite independently of their soundness and of the presence or absence of evidence for their truth.

Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument

What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason

You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.

The effective delegator Does not feel insecure Has confidence in subordinates Uses schedules when planning Knows the value of delegating Ensures staff are trained

No amount of self-improvement can make up for any lack of self-acceptance.

You may be cool under pressure and challenge, but can you be cool under success?

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." [ Modernism's Patriarch ( Time Magazine , June 10, 1996)]

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary metaphors by which a radically changing culture could be explained to its inhabitants.

Unfortunately, Captain Graf created fear and mistrust in her followers, rather than stoking the courage, skill, and confidence she intended.

La indecisión es una particularidad de los malos jefes.