Quotes About Self-confidence

As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.

If you want to wear long hair or wear that dress, as long as you're not hurting yourself or anybody else, I say do it. If you want to go out and have a romantic, sexy affair, do it.

It hurts when people put you down.

You cannot allow whether someone likes you or not to alter your course of action. Sometimes I think, 'Sure, that hurts my feelings.' But it's not so important that I will adjust what I'm doing because someone is not going to like me.

I just don't believe the hype. I just don't take myself too seriously. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

I am as far from a hypochondriac as you could ever be.

It's about believing in yourself and ignoring the fact that men dominate it. In fact, I feel women are as strong as men.

I'm not trying to clean my image to make anyone happy.

I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he didn't have confidence in who he was, but because he never imitated anybody. He was his own person.

Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.

I think the skin is the most important part of a strong makeup look, and if you take care of that, the rest will follow.

I think everyone is most confident when they are just being themselves and not trying to impress others.

I like to impress myself when I dress.

I'd been involved with stand-up before improv, so I already thought highly of myself as being a funny person. I never thought I wasn't funny.

I would say my best feature has to be my legs - they are 41.5 inches long!

Jobs give people a sense of independence, security and self-confidence.

If I'm going out on the town in New York, I always wear Danielle Collins T-shirts - they are expressive, young: independent woman in charge of herself, her body, and her mind.

Emotional abuse is like brainwashing in that it systematically wears away at the victim's self-confidence, sense of self-worth, trust in his or her perceptions, and self-concept. (..) Eventually, the recipient loses all sense of self and all remnants of personal value.

There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm.

Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.

Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. —Karl Lagerfeld

Self-confidence is no greater than self. God confidence, which is called faith, is as big as God.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos.