Quotes About Confidence

Alex! Your dress!" Landis called after her. "Come down and we'll find you something else to wear!" Alexis shook her head and laughed. "I told the captain I would need a pair of trousers and he refused me! If the sight of my legs is so distasteful, then don't look!" Landis joined the laughter of the others in response to her suggestion. There was certainly nothing wrong with her legs. They all tilted their heads back as they watched her climb higher.

How have I changed? I know now that I belong right in the middle of every dilemma. The solution to my problems is not to avoid them, or to follow a scripted response. I need to have enough confidence, enough self-respect, enough bravery to meet each challenge head on and pursue an original solution.

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

But then Macon smiled at me. "Just be yourself, Foster. That's the best thing in the world.

Sometimes it takes a lot of courage to be who you are.

Since I couldn't be the prettiest girl at the party I could at least make it uncomfortable for the one who was.

She didn't wallow in problems or reveal self-doubt.

Yet such authenticity was part of [Sonia Sotomayor's] attraction. And she acknowledged what few other prominent figures revealed: she sometimes felt awkward and out of place. In her speeches, she talked about fighting the fear of missteps and failure. 'Like yourself. Like who you are,' she advised young people trying to make their way in the world.

Sonia] Sotomayor resisted comparisons with other justices, saying she considered them counterproductive. Speaking generally, she said that throughout her life she knew there would always be someone who would seem smarter, faster, and better. She said the comparisons she preferred were personal to her: 'Am I learning? Am I getting better?

For weeks, [Sonia] Sotomayor had seen drafts of Ginsburg's opinion as it circulated among the justices. She knew she was about to be a public target. But she would have the courage of her convictions - perhaps stubbornly, misguidedly - yet with confidence enough to be the one in an 8-1 vote.

it's better to prepare the speaker than the speech,

I don't believe in dieting.

The most beautiful clothes look awful draped over a shapeless from. And, conversely, a really good figure can wear a twenty-dollar dress with verve.

A busy woman can't spend whole days in front of mirrors, but she ought to have them all over the house (which improves the décor, too) and make a point of glancing at herself every time she passes one. It's a form of narcissism that pays off. If you are pleased with what you see, chances are he will be, too.

People ask me if I turn up at board meetings wearing tailored costumes in muted colors. Oh no, I say. I wear hot and shocking pink and lovely hats. I don't think any man ever did a poor job because he had an attractively dressed woman to look at. In fact, the sight probably challenges him to be his most brilliant self. But when it comes to the routine of the meeting I do exactly what the men do.

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth... is potentially to have everything...

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

No one has the right to make you feel like a nothing, but if there is an internal part of you that feels like a nothing, then you are more inclined to identify with the negativity your partner projects onto you.

What are people going to do? Fire me? I've been fired before. Not book me? I've been out of work before. I don't care.

There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.

Move in silence & Let your success make all the noise

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will." – Zig-Ziglar

Knowledge gives you attitude and carriage which IS everything! A woman who knows and feels she is sexy projects sexy and classy. If you are uncertain it can show. Make a list of those things you feel uncertain about and go to work on getting the knowledge to cross them off your list

I'm an enormous fan of people who have had a lot of faith in themselves, and been on a tremendous journey.