Quotes About Confidence

The question is, do you really want to know what other people think about you—about your talents and prospects—or do you want to be deceived about all that?

Later on in life, I think Kmart, or whatever competition we were facing, just became Jeff City High School, the team we played for the state championship in 1935. It never occurred to me that I might lose; to me, it was almost as if I had a right to win. Thinking like that often seems to turn into sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Mum, since when have you ever decided whether or not to do something based on an assumption that you will fail?" I asked. "If I think everyone else will be better than me, then you're right, I shouldn't try. But if that is my approach, maybe I should just preemptively admit defeat and retire now.

Where are you and what you are doing is something you have done dozens of times before without having any problems. Recognize that you are going to get out of this- that you always get out of this, that you are going to live, that you won't go crazy. I am telling you that you will live, because you always live, because you are strong and beautiful.

She doesn't care what anyone thinks and it is amazing.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.

He that is pleased with himself easily imagines that he shall please others. - On Alexander Pope

Self-confidence if the first requisite to great unertakings. - On Alexander Pope

Our senses, our appetites, and our passions, are our lawful and faithful guides, in most things that relate solely to this life; and, therefore, by the hourly necessity of consulting them, we gradually sink into an implicit submission, and habitual confidence. Every act of compliance with their motions facilitates a second compliance, every new step towards depravity is made with less reluctance than the former, and thus the descent to life merely sensual is perpetually accelerated.

ALLEGER  (ALLE'GER)   n.s.[from allege.]He that alleges. Which narrative, if we may believe it as confidently as the famous alleger of it, Pamphilio, appears to do, would seem to argue, that there is, sometimes, no other principle requisite, than what may result from the lucky mixture of the parts of several bodies.Boyle.

Chi dubita di se stesso di rado sbaglia.

He crossed his legs in a slick way that showed that here was a guy, finally, who really knew how to sit down and cross his legs.

Paradoxically self esteem problems are more common in young people who are in the physical and mental prime of their lives.

True self esteem is not based upon how you think others see you; rather it is based upon the value you put on yourself as a human being.

you can and should believe in yourself even when others don't;

This was partly why she believed what she had been told:

I was glad I wasn't pretty anymore. It was so much easier to do things like this without being pretty.

your body is so much more than a lesson to be learnt

It was a valuable thing, he suddenly realized, to have someone you could count on for honesty.

Its not bragging if its true.

Mom always says that doubt is just another way of expressing faith.

When I'm at my best, my writing identity comes from a deep and quiet place where the noise of approval and disapproval is a neutral background landscape more than a declaration of who I am. Conversely, the times I feel the worst about being a writer are when I'm looking for likes, fishing for approval, or otherwise in search of evidence that I'm somebody, because I've momentarily forgotten I already am.

You'll never make it through life if you let irrational fears freeze you all the time.