Quotes About Confidence

Do you know hot to drive? he asked. Sure, she said. This one is the gas.

You look like a drug addict," Mom says. "It washes you out completely." "Wow. Thanks, Mom," I tell her, swallowing the lump her words bring up in my throat. "I can always count on you to build up my self-confidence." "Would you feel better if I lied to you?" Mom asks. "Okay, fine. You look like Miss America. There, happy?

For once, you believed in yourself. You believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.

Only a weak person needed someone else around all the time.

I've always known who I am. I might not work perfectly, or be like them, but that's okay. I know I work in my own way.

But all I could think of was how when nothing made sense and hadn't for ages, you just have to grab onto anything you feel sure of.

So he didn't have to prove how he felt about me. Like so much else, I should just know.

And she was good to me: strong, fun, and fiercely loyal. And if I didn't have many other friends because of her-most girls were intimidated by her looks, or thought she was too pushy, or just flat-out feared for their boyfriends-it never bothered me. I never missed having a wide, thick circle of girlfriends: Rina was more than enough. We were comfortable with each other's flaws and weaknesses, so we stuck together and kept to ourselves.

Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you.

Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.

Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine.

Okay. Enough. I got out of the closet, brushing myself off, then turned around to face her. This is happening. So you need to go downstairs, face your fears, and make the best of it, and everything will be okay. She narrowed her eyes at me. When did you suddenly become so positive? Just get out of there.

You know, I told him,if you don't know how to eat a cupcake, that's nothing to be ashamed of. Now he did smile. I know how to eat a cupcake. Sure you do. I do, he said. I just don't want one of those. Yeah? Prove it.

We can all be beautiful girls.

Being self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside. It starts with the rest of the world and leads back to you.

I bet you can't eat ten bananas! I bet you're right.

You knew the truth all along, Colie. That's all matters. You knew.

You just walk over there and into the office and say, 'Hey, be my prom date,' he said. It's that simple.

And don't change for a guy, ever, Leah added. If they're worthy, they'll like you just the way you are.

It hadn't even occured to me that somebody would believe mine.

I don't believe in failure," she was saying in that confident, breezy way. "Because simply by saying you've failed, you've admitted you attempted. And anyone who attempts is not a failure. Those who truly fail in my eyes are the ones who never try at all. The ones who sit on the couch and whine and moan and wait for the world to change for them." – Kiki Sparks

Looking at her, I thought again how beautiful she was - even in jeans and a T-shirt, no makeup, she was breathtaking. So much so that it was hard to believe she could ever have looked at herself and seen anything else.

At the very least you should tell yourself the truth. If you can't trust yourself, who can you trust?

I have boobs! Chloe said again, a bit too loudly— she'd already had a couple of mini bottles at the Spot. My boobs are great, goddammit. You know that? They're fantastic! My boobs are amazing.