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Quotes About Self-confidence

He wanted most of all the people of his own mind, people with whom he could really talk, people he could harangue and scold by the hour, servants, you see, to his fancy. Among these people he was always self-confident and bold. They might talk, to be sure, and even have opinions of their own, but always he talked last and best. He was like a writer busy among the figures of his brain, a kind of tiny blue-eyed king he was, in a six-dollar room facing Washington Square in the city of New York.
~ Sherwood Anderson
I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
So it's kind of nervous to be in this situation, but at the same time you look at all those actors and the work that they've done, I've been in bigger films than all of them and still kept my integrity and still kept my respect.
~ Shia LaBeouf
To lose confidence in one's body is to lose confidence in oneself.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
No one will believe in you if you don't believe in yourself.
~ Sipho P Nkosi
Take criticism and build the bridge of self-confidence, strength and success.
~ Sipho P Nkosi
I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do.
~ Mary Lou Retton
Have the self-confidence to say no when it is necessary and the strength to stand alone. Give yourself the approval to love and respect everything that you are and will become.
~ Jackie Olson
I love getting dressed up and having someone do my make-up and feeling pretty.
~ Amanda Peet
After you develop your Self-confidence and love for God then you can share your experiences with others. But it is a good rule to talk very little, even about God.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Perhaps self-esteem is just the sum of self-love and self-confidence. People with high self-esteem know they deserve a good life and that they can get almost everything they focus on!
~ Mika
I love being able to wear dresses and clothes that make me feel feminine and beautiful, and I love the fact that I don't have to all the time; I can wear a tank and jeans.
~ Portia de Rossi
If you believe in yourself, if you are without fear, you will also be tolerant, non-aggressive and find love.
~ Rollo Armstrong
When I look in the mirror, what do I see? I see a strong, independent, working woman who is very much in love and very happy with the reflection in that mirror.
~ Essence Atkins
Develop Self-confidence, then love will fol­low; it will come naturally from within. And that way the love will be pure.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.
~ Barbara Corcoran
When I put something on, and I stand up much straighter, that's when I love to wear clothes.
~ Bonnie Wright
It is imperative that a woman keep her sense of humor intact and at the ready. She must see, even if only in secret, that she is the funniest, looniest woman in her world, which she should also see as being the most absurd world of all times.
~ Maya Angelou
Only the secure can bear the weight of a joke and only the very secure can join in the laughter.
~ Maya Angelou
my opponent's self-confidence is usually my best asset.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
You have several significant flaws, including that once you are convinced you are capable of one thing of a certain scale, you are equally convinced you can handle more. You do not allow for their cumulative effects upon you. You are doing what you can.
~ Mercedes Lackey
But Mum and Dad just loved me, regardless, and that has helped me so much in my life: to have the confidence to just be myself and to go for things.
~ Bear Grylls
Even the wealthiest professional woman can be brought down by being in a relationship where she longs to be loved and is consistently lied to. To the degree that she trusts her male companion, lying and other forms of betrayal will most likely shatter her self-confidence and self-esteem.
~ bell hooks
Even the wealthiest professional woman can be "brought down" by being in a relationship where she longs to be loved and is consistently lied to. To the degree that she trusts her male companion, lying and other forms of betrayal will most likely shatter her self-confidence and self-esteem.
~ bell hooks