Quotes About Confidence

She felt a little betrayed and sad, but presently a moving object came into sight. It was a huge horse-chestnut tree in full bloom bound for the Champs Elysees, strapped now into a long truck and simply shaking with laughter - like a lovely person in an undignified position yet confident none the less of being lovely. Looking at it with fascination, Rosemary identified herself with it, and laughed cheerfully with it, and everything all at once seemed gorgeous.

I feared so-you're sentimental. You're not like me. I'm a romantic little materialist. I'm not sentimental-I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last-the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.

He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows.

To be afraid, a person has either to be very great and strong-- or else a coward. I'm neither.

Believe me, I may be a bit blasé, but I can still get any man I want.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I thought you weren't afraid. I never am --but I won't throw my life away just to show one man I'm not.

already there are wanderers, confident girls who weave here and there among the stouter and more stable, become for a sharp, joyous moment the center of a group and then excited with triumph glide on through the sea-change of faces and voices and color under the constantly changing light.

When a girl feels that she's perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That's charm. The more parts of yourself you can afford to forget the more charm you have.

the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody

It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

She is one of those girls who need never make the slightest effort to have men fall in love with them. Two types of men seldom do: dull men are usually afraid of her cleverness and intellectual men are usually afraid of her beauty. All others are hers by natural prerogative.

Tell me. I'll believe it. I always believe anything anyone tells about myself – don't you?

idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last—the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.

As for the well-known Amory, he would write immortal literature if he were sure enough about anything to risk telling any one else about it.

It was a huge horse-chestnut tree in full bloom bound for the Champs-Elysees, strapped now into a long truck and simply shaking with laughter-like a lovely person in an undignified position yet confident none the less of being lovely.

and I'll make you a mint julep. Then you won't seem so stupid to yourself. .

She was in the middle thirties, and faintly stout, but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can.

Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body—

I'd be a God Damned fool to live anywhere else.

Don't let yourself feel worthless; often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don't worry about losing your "personality," as you persist in calling it; at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 P.M. If

No child ever receives a box of colored crayons and says, "What's the point? I can't draw." Nor does she reject a jar of modeling dough because sculpture is too complicated. If you give him a guitar, he gets sounds out of it without fuss. If you ask her to sing, she doesn't refuse to because she doesn't know the words or because she hasn't got a perfect voice: she simply takes a breath, opens her mouth and belts it out!

Remember, if people talk about you behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead of them.

Damn, I'm Miss Mississippi!