Quotes About Confidence

Modesty's for folk with nothing to boast of.

If you judge your thoughts worth hearing, pronounce them proudly, push them to every corner of the chamber, fill the hall with your hopes and desires and make every listener share them! If you are ashamed of your thoughts, better to leave a silence.

Everyone likes me," said Caul Shivers, the most feared man in the North.

Winning made people friendly. Winning too much made them nervous.

You look especially beautiful this morning, Monza.' She sighed, as if that was an accident. As if she hadn't spent an hour preening herself before the mirror. 'Facts are facts. Stating them isn't a gift. You only prove you're not blind.' She yawned, stretched in her saddle, made him wait a moment longer. 'But I'll hear more.

You'd have to be a bold man to bet your life on what I'd dare. How bold are you? -Sand dan Glokta

Better to do it, than to live with the fear of it, and so forth.

If I can live with having this face, they can live with looking at it. That or they can get fucked.

I daresay that's a better-looking man there. A cleverer man.' He ran one hand through his short dark hair, frowning at his reflection. 'Not sure if I trust that bastard, though.

But here's the sorry truth — if you really don't want a thing, you don't have to keep telling yourself so.

Respect costs you nothing, and nothing gets a man killed quicker than confidence.

Anyone can face ease and success with confidence. It is the way we face trouble and misfortune that defines us. Self-pity goes with selfishness, and there is nothing more to be deplored in a leader than that. Selfishness belongs to children, and to half-wits. A great leader puts others before himself. You would be surprised how acting so makes it easier to bear one's own troubles. In order to act like a King, one need only treat everyone else like one.

it was better to do it, than to live with the fear of it.

No one had the answers. Worse. There weren't any. The best you could do was play a long con and act as if you had them. Never show fear. Never show doubt.

You trust her?" asked Forest. "No," said Leo. "But trust is a poor foundation for an alliance.

The greatest responsibility of a commander was not to command, but to look like he knew how to.

Confiar, una palabra solo apta para idiotas

Vurms stopped in his tracks. "You wouldn't dare!" Glokta smiled. His most revolting, leering, gap-toothed smile. "You'd have to be a bold man to bet your life on what I'd dare. How bold are you?

It is when they truly hate you, after all, that you know you have won. So she met the seething dislike with effortless superiority, paraded past with her shoulders back and chin high. If she was to be cast as the villain, so be it. They were always the most interesting characters anyway.

Command was a trick. You had to spread the illusion that you knew what you were doing as deep and as wide through your men as you could. Spread the illusion and hope for the best.

Yolk grinned. "If there's one thing I'm good at, it's doing things badly.

Act as if everything is going exactly according to your plans. As if you are the most confident person in the world. As if you never had a doubt in your life. It works for me.

My name's Cregg.

Amazing how far you can get if you stick to a straight line and look like you've got every reason to be there.