Quotes About Self-confidence

Fake it till you make it, he reminds himself. This is how he's survived Army life so far.

I always just forced myself to do crazy things in public. In college I would push an overhead projector across campus with my pants just low enough to show my butt. Then my friend would incite the crowd to be like, 'Look at that idiot!' That's how I got over being shy.

I've always been quite shy. Very confident but very shy.

When I was young, I first went into the theatre which opened up across from my house. My mum and dad put me in there, not to become an actor or anything but to get rid of my shyness, which was so bad, to the point it was painful. My time there was all about encouragement and improvisation.

The danger is we're losing sight of what women really want to wear.

People should dress the way they want. Any rules for age or shape are silly.

I don't really listen to the media or anyone's perception of beauty, so it makes me almost immune to silly comments about my body.

I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.

The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

You won't look over your shoulder, will you? She was referring [..] to the terrible inclination we women sometimes had to scurry back to safety. No, I told her. I won't look back.

My father says my mind is weak, and my tongue, weaker, she'd told me then. It seemed now her tongue was not weak, but the fiercest part of her.

La invencibilidad está en uno mismo, la vulnerabilidad en el adversario.

It is a fear that must be defended against at all costs. In an effort to quell his anxiety, he tries to gain control over his partner by destroying her self-confidence, so that she can never leave him and he will be safe.

This is bullshit. You think I care what other people think? What does age have to do with it? Why can't you be that girl? As for what I want to do with my life, why can't I figure that out with you?

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It's all to do with the way you carry yourself, the way you face the world.

As the psychiatrist Kay Redfield Jamison writes, "There is a great deal of evidence to suggest that, compared to 'normal' individuals, artists, writers, and creative people in general are both psychologically 'sicker'—that is, they score higher on a wide variety of measures of psychopathology—and psychologically healthier (for example, they show quite elevated scores on measures of self-confidence and ego strength)

Don't let fear hold you back from pursuing your dreams. Believe in yourself and go for it.

Fear of failure chips away at self-confidence until there is no heart to step into new territory. One needs the mind of a child to forget what happened an hour ago.

At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?

At sixteen I was stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self- confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?

Tu manques de confiance en toi, et je veux te débarrasser de cette infirmité qui fait boiter ton bonheur

There is nothing wrong with doubting yourself, Hermione. Marriage is an enormous undertaking. The biggest choice you will ever make in your life. Once it's done, you can't change your mind.

Don't let anyone make you feel inferior, because you are great. Be comfortable and confident in you skin.