Quotes About Confidence

when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear.

Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.

Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic.

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic. ~Rosalind Russell

Once you accept the fact that you're not perfect, then you develop some confidence.

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

She had the kind of radical confidence about her own highly personal expression that people acquire when they understand that performance is not about getting your act together, but about opening up to the energy of the audience and of the music, and letting it sing in your unique voice.

They dance together in a line, murmuring in swift, low voices, smiling carefully as they are too proud to give away their beauty. They are light steppers with a gravity of sure grace.

She didn't use any makeup but lipstick, a bright carmine red that emphasized everything she said.

Something new was at work, she could feel it, an ease with her own mind she'd never felt before, a pleasure in her own wit she'd half hidden or demurred. As Agnes, she'd always felt too inhibited to closely question men. Questions from women to men always raised questions of a different nature. As a man, she found that Father Damien was free to pursue all questions with frankness and ease.

But now he was losing confidence and control. His paintings were hiding from him because Irene was hiding something.

You've been criticising yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

I am in the right place at the right time, doing the right thing.

Non...I am DANCING IN MY NUDDY-PANTS!!!' And we both laughed like loons on loon tablets. I danced for ages round the house in my nuddy-pants. Also, I did this brilliant thing-I danced in the front window just for a second whilst Mr. Across the Road was drawing his curtains. He will never be sure if he saw a mirage or not. That is the kind of person I am. Not really the kind of person who goes and raises elks in Whakatane.

I am not afraid of storms, for I am leaning how to sail my ship.

Girls have to be dauntless," Mathilda said. "And twice as excellent

Girls without mothers either tried too hard or not hard enough; as they got older, they sometimes wore extra makeup, as if it could mask the fact they didn't know what to do, how to act.

the belief they didn't need their

I hope you know that about yourself, that you are perfect on your own. You have to make yourself whole—no one else can.

Never diminish your own worth, not even in jest, or someone will start to believe it.

one could never remind one's own daughter, or one's own self, too often of the power she had within.

What had happened to the girl from Bard? That strong, funny, sexy, smart, sure-of-herself person named Nicola? How could someone so dynamic have turned into a mouse? She was positive that if she ever met her old self, she'd be scared of her. But

hope you know that about yourself, that you are perfect on your own. You have to make yourself whole—no one else can.