Quotes About Confidence

Cats talk to whomever they please.

Her nakedness was not vulnerability, but armour.

Suddenly, everything was easy and clear. I simply did whatever Chade told me to do, and trusted to him to have it turn out right. My spirit rode high on the crest of that wave of faith, and sometime during the night it occurred to me: this was what Burrich had had from Chivalry, and what he missed so badly.

you cannot fend off the enemy if you do not have confidence in those who stand behind you.

For there is a very strange peace in giving over your judgment to someone else, to saying to them, "You lead and I will follow, and I will trust entirely that you will not lead me to death or harm.

Trust is not trust until it is complete.

Attitude and bearing. Believe you are beautiful, and so will everyone else

Nor do I need your pity. I accept my current fortune. I've seen my situation change before, and I will see it change again. I don't need you to change it.

Badgerlock, I rather think …" "Prince FitzChivalry," I corrected him. I looked him up and down. "And do not make that mistake again." "Prince FitzChivalry," he accepted the correction. He opened his mouth and then shut it again. I turned away from him, holding his horse's reins and Thick's. "That wasn't the mistake," I said without looking back. "I meant your trying to think.

She thinks you will succeed. But whether you will know you have succeeded, or if the success will be the one you would have chosen for yourself, well, those are things no one can say now. But she knows you will succeed at whatever you are meant to do." p.613: Paragon to Brashen (about Mother)

a man who bears himself with authority will often have authority ceded to him.

I went from the practice courts still bearing every problem that I had brought there with me, but buoyed with the idea that perhaps I possessed the wherewithal to face them.

Be your blood, boy, and ignore what anyone else thinks of you.

if I fret about it, I shall have pre-judged myself to failure.

She was a dragon, not a mindless mud salamander.

If we cannot anchor ourselves in a belief that we will succeed, we have already been defeated.

Prudent men never trusted their luck. But Kennit had long ago decided that a man had to trust his luck in order for it to grow.

Sa help us all, but I plan to give her free rein and let her be as unpleasant and bitchy as only she knows how.

The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will

Very little worth knowing is taught by fear.

Katie wondered for a moment if part of the reason so many of the young women she knew who had poor self-esteem ended up that way because they had spent their lives gazing at themselves in a mirror instead of being the mirror others gazed into.

Sierra felt full of hope and confidence in God. She knew who she was. And she knew Whose she was. Whatever mysterious plan God had for her life, it would be an interesting one. As Christy had said earlier, God writes a different story for each person. Sierra decided hers might not be a bestseller or even a thriller. It certainly wasn't a romance. But it was turning into a fine mystery. And she could live with that.

Why be the lamb when you can be the lion?

Am I pretty? I must be, I thought, for all girls in love are pretty.