Quotes About Confidence

Although she was fragile in appearance, every prohibition lost substance in her presence.

To carry out any project to which you attach your own name you have to love yourself.

For example, I came to my exams very well prepared, but if the professor were suddenly to ask me, "Do you know from what works I derive the authority on the basis of which I teach this subject in this university?" I wouldn't know what to answer. But the others knew. So I moved among them fearful of saying and doing the wrong things.

Her quickness of mind was like a hiss, a dart, a lethal bite. And there was nothing in her appearance that acted as a corrective.

My breasts are small," I said in a whisper, but immediately despised myself because it sounded as if I were making excuses, excuse me if I can't offer you big tits, I hope you enjoy yourself anyway, idiot that I was, if he liked little tits, good; if not, the worse for him, it was all free, a stroke of luck had fallen to this shit, the best birthday present he could hope for, at his age.

She spoke with a different sort of determination, calmer, as if it were no longer necessary to fight to the death for every little thing.

I gave a nervous laugh, then said, "Thanks, but at a certain point school is over." "Not for you: you're my brilliant friend, you have to be the best of all, boys and girls.

I always have to prove that I can be better

The attentions of Pasquale Peluso consoled me greatly, I liked that he made me laugh. Maybe I'm not so ugly, I thought, maybe I can't see myself.

I have to relearn—I said to myself—the tranquil pace of those who believe they know where they're going and why.

Comment avais-je pu imaginer lui plaire, ne serait-ce que le temps des vacances, moi la petite ronde à lunettes, certes appliquée mais pas intelligente, moi qui prétendais être cultivée et informée mais ne l'étais pas?

The daughter of the shoemaker, who had no bosom and didn't get her period and didn't even have a boyfriend, became in a few days the most reliable dispenser of advice on affairs of the heart.

Devo reimparare il passo tranquillo di chi crede di sapere dove sta andando e perché

Really, go ahead." "No.

Todas las cosas del mundo pendían de un hilo, eran puro riesgo, y quien no aceptaba arriesgarse acababa deteriorándose en un rincón, sin confianza en la vida.

Tal vez no sea tan fea, pensé, tal vez soy yo la que no sé verme.

Frumusetea pe care Cerullo o avea in minte inca de mica nu s-a manifestat, Greco, si i-a ajuns toata pe fata, in piept, pe coaste si pe cur, locuri de unde trece repede si e ca si cum n-ai avut-o niciodata.

Eu nu cheltui o lira daca nu cred ca pot sa scot o suta.

Although I felt I was changed, I had remained the disciplined person who had never avoided anything. And besides, I said to myself, what can she do to me? I'm a woman, not a child. At most she'll bring something good to eat.

Quem te ensinou a ler e a escrever, Cerullo?» Cerullo, pequena, de cabelos e olhos escuros e de bata, com um laço cor de rosa ao pescoço e apenas seis anos de vida, respondeu: «Eu.»

La belleza que Cerullo llevaba en la cabeza desde niña no ha encontrado salidas, Greco, y le ha ido a parar toda en la cara, en el pecho, en los muslos y el culo, sitios donde se pasa muy pronto y después es como si nunca la hubiese tenido".

Fisicamente sei bella" sottolineò Ida, "hai solo un poco di bruttezza dovuta alle preoccupazioni". Angela disse baciandomi: "Succede anche a me: quando mi preoccupo imbruttisco, ma poi passa

It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward.

A ella todo le salía, escogía bien las películas que iban a ver, los libros, los amigos, se manejaba con seguridad. Con ella eran buenas las conversaciones y buenas las comidas. Mucho más madura que las de su edad; llevarla a su lado, ahuecando el pecho, su pelo de lino alborotado, era una certeza equiparable a saber que la tierra gira en torno al sol.