Quotes About Confidence

She was not stunningly beautiful. She could be pretty when she felt like it.

it is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything

Gay!' he chirped. 'Gay!' It was the way he said his own name.

It is much easier to be brave if you don't know everything.

I'm going to win the girls' race this week.

story?" "Of course you do," Gooney Bird told him.

To be brave came more easily if you knew nothing.

I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!

He's not too short. He's just... concentrated.

You? I know you! You trust beyond reason. She met his eyes steadily. Yes. It's how I get results beyond hope. As you may recall.

Once you had delegated the best people to do a job for you, you had to trust both them and your judgment. What

There is this, about being the sparring partner of the best swordsman in Caribastos. I always lost. But if ever I meet the third best swordsman in Caribastos, he's going to be in very deep trouble.

Roic said nothing, firmly.

the key was to take the initiative from the first moment, and keep it thereafter. He could be as hollow as a drum, so long as he was as loud.

Miles looked up at his father. "Did I do the right thing, sir? Last night?" "Yes," said the Count simply. "A right thing. Perhaps not the best of all possible right things. Three days from now you may think of a cleverer tactic, but you were the man on the ground at the time. I try not to second-guess my field commanders." Miles's heart rose in his aching chest for the first time since he'd left Kyril Island. He nodded, satisfied.

Miles bowed, sitting; his floater bobbed slightly. "My horse would like you fine. He's extremely amiable, not to mention much too old and lazy to stampede anywhere. And I personally guarantee that with a Vorkosigan liveried armsman at your back, not the most benighted backcountry hick would offer you insult." Roic

I've never taught anybody before . . ." He smiled up at her, willing confidence into her face, her eyes, her spine. "Look, you can probably kill the first two days just having them demonstrate what they know on each other, while you stand around and say "Um," and "Hm," and "God help us," and things like that.

Cazaril trusted he appeared scholarly enough to fool the young ladies

Indeed if one had just seen him at the end of the evening with the dusk and the mist of the fenlands close behind him he might have believed that in the dusk and the mist was an army that followed this gay worn confident man. Had the army been there Niv was sane. Had the world accepted that an army was there, still he was sane. But the lonely fancy that had not fact to feed on, nor the fancy of any other for fellowship, was for its loneliness mad.

To protect yourself, you must believe in yourself. Nothing will encourage that belief more than knowing you are prepared.

But don't grovel. Don't apologize. Give him the facts

No one thinks you're an idiot. That's just dumb.

owning your sexuality is a big part of equality.

You're a nice-looking girl Ã¢â'¬Â¦ all over. That's all you need, honey, forget the atmosphere.