Quotes About Confidence

He was wondering how anyone could talk so loud, could boast so extravagantly. It was as though the man had to shout in order to convince himself of his own existence.

Confiar y esperar

AÅŸk kördür, kendine güveni yoktur ve herhangi bir dayanak buldu mu, hemen sar?l?r ona.

Usted tiene hijos? -No. -¿Por qué? El hombre respondió que, para tener hijos era necesario tener confianza en el mundo

Tenía consigo la indestructible calma de los hombres que se sienten en su lugar.

Maybe you're not the failure you think you are after all...

Non è un problema di fatica, di paura della fatica, di rammollimento. Ve lo ripeto: per Monsieur Bertin quella fatica era un piacere. Aveva bisogno di sentirsi stanco, di quel tour de force lo rendeva grande, e sicuro di sé.

Avevano bisogno di trovare quel destino in se stessi: di dimostrare che una certa quale grandezza la possedevano senza bisogno che nessun altro gliela concedesse, né uomini, né re, né Dio.

E per un attimo le tornò quell'argentea sfrontatezza che aveva da giovane, quando sapeva di non essere né peggio né meglio di tanti altri, ma solamente diversa, in un modo prezioso e inevitabile. Era quando tutto le faceva paura, ma ancora non aveva paura di niente.

Let me tell you something: I am a man.

Courage is accepting your fear and doing whatever needs to be done anyway. Cowards are people who can't face up to their fear and let it get the better of them. There's always a place for courage. There's always something that can be done. You might not see it right away. Sooner or later something comes to mind that can help you through it. You make up your mind that it's okay to be afraid and you are going to be all right. Then you do what has to be done. That's courage.

Sometimes I look in the mirror and think I'm really good looking. Then other times I think my body's all wrong.

Don't worry about it. Just look ahead to the next question. You didn't get here by accident. You passed the test. You deserve to be here. These categories maybe don't line up with your areas of expertise. But you're bright. Keep your head up. Move forward. Keep going.

Don't worry about it. Just look ahead to the next question. You didn't get here by accident. You passed the test. You deserve to be here. These categories maybe don't line up with your areas of expertise. But your bright. Keep your head up. Move forward. Keep going.

Pretend to think well of yourself, and the world will think well of you.

Sure of himself, convinced of his own power, certain that the laws which rule other men could not reach him, he went straight to the object he aimed at, even were this object were so elevated and so dazzling that it would have been madness for any other even to have contemplated it.

When a beginner wins he feels brilliant and invincible Then he takes wild risk and loses everything.

We can be confident in our dealings with the world when what the world sees is the outer person, with all the outer person's defences: the intimacy of a love affair is a different matter altogether. And who might not feel just the slightest bit insecure under the gaze of a lover--a gaze which falls on birthmarks, on blemishes physical and psychological, on our imperfections and impatience, on our human vulnerability?

All our human endeavours are like that, she reflected, and it is only because we are too ignorant to realize it, or are too forgetful to remember it, that we have the confidence to build something that is meant to last.

Such men knew their worth, but did not flaunt it. Such men could look anybody in the eye without flinching; even a poor man, a man with nothing, could stand upright in the presence of those who had wealth or power. People did not know, Mma Ramotswe felt, just how much we had in those days—those days when we seemed to have so little, we had so much. She

We were tiny creatures, really; tiny and afraid, trying to hold our place on the little platform that was our earth. So while the world about us might seem so solid, so permanent, it was not really. We were all at the mercy of chance, no matter how confident we felt, hostages to our own human frailty.

They were also shoes that would give the wearer confidence: a person could speak with authority in such shoes.

He looked up from his stew. "Mma Ramotswe," he said, "you can do anything. Nothing is too hard for a person like you—nothing. You are very good at doing everything, Mma, and anything you do, Mma

He shows the most amazing brass neck," she said.