Quotes About Confidence

Skill and attitude are essential. Authority is not.

We choose not to be remarkable because we're worried about criticism. We

We have to trust ourselves and then we have to trust the people we serve.

But all my life she has tried to change me, to make me thinner, prettier, more like the daughter she wishes I had been. I do not want to live the rest of my life trying to change myself to make someone else happy." She'd never actually put her feelings into words before, but as she did, it all became so clear. She wanted to be loved for who she was.

Then she would eat what she liked, wear what she liked, and no one would tell her she had the body of a strumpet and had better take care not to look like one. She almost laughed. Some strumpet she was, considering she spent most of her evenings standing or sitting by a wall while other ladies danced or mingled.

I'm an excellent pastry chef. My pie crust is better than my Zia Rosa's. Come on back to the kitchen. I'll make a chocolate cream pie before your very eyes. I'll feed a piece of it to you by hand. And by the time I'm done, you're not going to be asking me if I'm gay anymore. She cleared her throat, gaze darting down. Is that so. It is, he said. On your feet. Come on back to the kitchen. I mean it. I'm dead serious. It's pie time. And I am so ready for you.

knowledge is indeed highly subjective, but we can quantify it with a bet. The amount we wager shows how much we believe in something.

To look in the mirror and like what you see, even when it doesn't look like your idea of beauty.

Gotta realize that all you are is all you got.

To look in the mirror and like what you see even if it's not your idea of beauty

I'm like superman when I get Charlese's clothes on. I got a new attitude and my teachers sure don't like it none ~page 4

You gotta love yourself, baby. If you don't, who will??

It takes a long time to accept yourself for who you are. To see the poetry in your walk," she says, shaking her hips like she's doing some African dance. Kids bust out laughing. "To look in the mirror and like what you see, even when it doesn't look like anybody else's idea of beauty." For a minute

It puzzled Maud that her male relatives could not see this. Was it that men could not believe a woman might share their ambitions, their need for power? Eleanor saw herself as more than Henry's queen, mother of his children. First and foremost, she was Duchess of Aquitaine, never doubting that she could have ruled as well as any man and better than most.

I would look dreadful in black.

But such was her faith in Simon that it colored her faith in God; unable to conceive of defeat, she never doubted that the Lord, too, willed Simon to win, and falling asleep in Simon's arms, she did not dread the morrow, so secure was she in the strength of her yesterdays.

I believe in me. And my family does. And Mrs. V. It's the rest of the world I'm not so sure of.

I'm at the age where i don't have to kiss arse or play nice!

You are a person worthy of love. You don't have to do anything to prove that.

The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.

When you don't have self-esteem you will hesitate before you do anything in your life. You will hesitate to go for the job you really wanna go for, you will hesitate to ask for a raise Ã¢â'¬Â¦ you will hesitate to report a rape, you will hesitate to defend yourself when you are discriminated against Ã¢â'¬Â¦ You will hesitate to vote, you will hesitate to dream. For us to have self-esteem is truly an act of revolution and our revolution is long overdue.

The personal power of being confident and clear about our actions and saying what we know without holding back is described in the texts as 'the lions roar.

The British ruled nineteenth-century India with unshakeable self-confidence, buttressed by protocol, alcohol and a lot of gall.

It's a matter of respect for yourself, say's Antwon. Because if you act like it's okay, then nobody going to respect you, and you ain't even going to respect yourself, which is worse, 'cause it gives you, like, this smell in the streets where other people can tell that you're weak.