Quotes About Confidence

I am no longer afraid to say anything.

I am a woman on her way to eat cake.

But you're not as stupid as they say!... Or are you?

I do not say anything from jealousy.

I relied on what I wrote to build a bridge which could not be cut down. It was my own self in which I trusted, not seeing self as that last cell from which escape can only come too late.

To not be self-conscious of your appearance is huge, and something that I desperately hope to carry into film at some point in my useless life - to not be thinking, 'My ear looks weird from this angle, why is the camera over there?'

I am beautiful, famous and gorgeous.

Do what comes into your life and do it well... Be polite without groveling. If you are ever afraid of anything, do not deny it, but behave as if you feared nothing.

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.

If you're happy inside you don't have to convince everyone else.

I knew I wasn't second best for Tim (just as I knew that in real life, Jolene's flaming locks and eyes of emerald green stood no change against the aces of spades that was Dolly Parton's chest), but it took some believing, because I'd been second best to my sister for most of my life. That shakes your faith in yourself.

I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough ' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

The reason that there are so few women comics is that so few women can bear being laughed at.

Fuck me! I love the sound of this. All that's missing is 007 and Miss Funnyfanny.' He got to his feet and picked up the schedule for the morning editorial conference from his desk. 'Prove all this, Gilmour. That should be easy for a woman like you.

I'm too old to play hard to get,' Marion said. 'Somebody asks me out, I'm standing with my hat and coat on in case they change their mind!

Just be true to yourself, and listen as much as one is able to to other people whose opinions you respect and look up to but in the end it has to come from you. You can't really worry too much by looking to the left and the right about what the competition is doing or what other people in your field are doing. It has to be a true vision.

If you can't be better than your competition, just dress better.

People respond well to those that are sure of what they want.

Totalitarian ideologies never die, and neither do their appeal, and so their consequences must be carefully re-explained for each generation. (...) Mass movements offer confidence and safety. History is always available for rewriting.

I was at a point where I was ready to say I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I'm grateful, and if you don't, what am I going to do about it?

She would always be short, but she wasn't helpless and she wasn't small. Not anymore.

Nothing wrong with the way your mother looks. First thing in the morning, last thing at night, and every hour in between, she looks just fine.

That one has more brass than an orchestra and more nerve than a sore tooth. So I sincerely doubt I make her nervous.