Quotes About Confidence

Sometimes it's easy to do brave things in front of a thousand people, but it's hard to do them in front of a handful. It feels so much more exposing.

When the 'greats of all-time' put out their first albums, it wasn't a thousand features on it. And I'm one of the greats in my eyes.

There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself.

It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.

Faith isn't absence of doubt. It's belief without proof, not without question.

I wasn't worried about myself. I didn't consider the possibility that either of the men could catch me. I was all-star varsity soccer. I was Braveheart in Urban Outfitters. I was Supergirl. I was seriously delusional.

More than once in the orphanage, I'd been asked if I wanted to look different. Truth is, I never did. I knew who I was when I looked into the mirror, my mother's daughter.

Oh, he'd be back all right! Giving her the last laugh before she moved out. And that was why she hadn't moved out yet. Just knowing she could, anytime she wanted to, made all the difference, of course. She'd just wait for him to succumb one more time, that was all. One more time -- proving to him that he still wanted her before she disappeared out of his life for good.

blowing on her fingernails and buffing them on the front of her dress, a brief ritual from out of Willow's teens, indicating prowess.

said maybe I will call myself Ross H. Spencer. I said he can't write either.

She walked as she owned the world, or had owned it once and lost it but remembered how it felt.

His eyes held the confident vacancy that comes from the exercise of other people's power.

She was young and small, with a fine small head, its modeling emphasized by a short boyish haircut. She had on a dark business suit which her body filled the way grapes fill their skins.

She held her shoulders straighter, and her breasts were bold.

'Every human being has a bit of gangsta him'

fearing not like I ever.

I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.

There, I've said it, and I said it in front of all these strange and quite scary women and that guy, because I'm less frightened of them than I am of being alone with you and you turning me down.

Head up, chin up, shoulders back, remember the worrior queen

Head up, chin up, shoulders back, remember the warrior queen

It was her "kind of nerve," her ability to transcend her fears, of all sorts, that marked her.

Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place.

Many research findings show that most Americans already hold inflated opinions of themselves.

the higher your opinion of yourself, the more likely you are to get ego threats, and hence the more prone to violence you would be.