Quotes About Confidence

You tell yourself that you aren't something or that you can't be something, and you know what? It will become true. You have to decide who you are and what you can do and then go after what you want. Because believe me, no one is going to give it to you.

You know who you are you just have to believe it.

My mother taught me to believe in silver, to believe in things, but I think it's more important to believe in me.

And you… do you know what you are?" "Stupid?" "Beautiful," he says, his face turning red.

You can tell yourself that you aren't something or that you can't be something, and you know what? It will become true. You have to decide who you are and what you can do and then go after what you want. Because believe me, no one is going to give it to you.

Don't be scared of your hunger. If you're scared of your hunger, you'll just be one more ninny like everyone else.

I am not invisible no matter how deeply I feel that I am.

You just stood up to your mother.... I should think now you could take on the world.

Watching her, I felt she was telling the truth. There was something about her that seemed deeply—almost fundamentally—comfortable inside herself, the way I think a person is when they have been loved by their parents.

This must be the way most of us maneuver in the world, half knowing, half not, visited by memories that can't possibly be true. But when I see others walking with confidence down the street, as though they are free completely from terror, I realize I don't know how others are. So much of life seems speculation.

No exchange rate for the confidence of youth.

Pam replied that she was too old to worry about being cool, but in fact she did worry about it, and that's one reason it was always nice to see Bobby, who was so uncool as to inhabit—in Pam's mind—his own private condominium of coolness.

There was something about her that seemed deeply—almost fundamentally—comfortable inside herself, the way I think a person is when they have been loved by their parents.

This must be the way most of us maneuver through the world, half knowing, half not, visited by memories that can't possibly be true. But when I see others walking with confidence down the sidewalk, as though they are free completely from terror, I realize I don't know how others are. So much of life seems speculation.

This must be the way most of us maneuver through the world, half knowing, half not, visited by memories that can't possibly be true. But when I see others walking with confidence down the sidewalk, as though they are free completely from terror, I realize I don't know how others are.

Don't be scared of your hunger. If you're scared of your hunger, you'll just be one more ninny like everyone else.

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.

I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, " he explained. "I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence.

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid. It was because I had let fear of failure stop me from trying at all.

as with any leader, it would be a mistake for him to show weakness or exhibit doubts …

For Plato, then, all certain knowledge requires an element of abstraction from concrete reality. Through Socrates, Plato tells us to constantly reach for the highest level of knowledge beyond mere individual examples, toward a universal standard for judgment that will give us a stronger, more confident position for acting in the world.

The man who claimed to be better than anyone else had to be ready to prove it, with his words, his actions, or his fists.

Invincibility is in oneself, vulnerability is in the opponent. —SUN TZU, THE ART OF WAR