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Quotes About Self-confidence

Luisa had a relaxed self-confidence that made it easy for her to admit that she knew absolutely nothing about such topics as orbital mechanics. But it was more than just that; she knew how to use her own ignorance as an icebreaker in conversations. Izzy was full of people who were skewed toward the Asperger's end of the social spectrum, and there was no better way to get them to start talking than to ask them a technical question.
~ Neal Stephenson
We tend to have things a little bit easier than girls. And we tend to assume therefore that the world was built for us, and that we're, you know, the culmination of everything that came before us. And then we get told that having a little bit of this attitude is called balls, and that balls are good, and we kind of take it from there
~ Ned Vizzini
Being raised, I think, in a household where your parents really taught you never to let people see you sweatin' - that's the motto I live by.
~ Malcolm Brogdon
I had a blind belief in myself and became a music director and an actor.
~ Vijay Antony
I want to say something very clearly. I understand that I'm a self-confident person who might come off with the wrong attitude sometimes, but I don't mean to. I just believe in certain things, and I know exactly what I want. I've always sacrificed things in order to become the best musician I could be.
~ Yngwie Malmsteen
In the 19th century, when Muslims were looking at Europe as an example, they were independent; they were more self-confident. In the early 20th century, with the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the whole Middle East was colonized. And when you have colonization, what do you have? You have anti-colonization.
~ Mustafa Akyol
The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.
~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
I wear menswear all the time. I don't do anything to make myself look more feminine. I naturally look and am more feminine.
~ Shamir
It is as much of a mistake to underestimate yourself as to overestimate yourself
~ Christie Golden
Women, real women do not have to prove anything to men. We already know we're the superior gender.
~ Christine Feehan
My skin cleared up! I don't have a single zit. -Tommy Ding, ding, ding, Jody onomatopeed, signaling that Tommy had hit on the correct answer.
~ Christopher Moore
It's not the wolves out there, it's the wolves in here.
~ Christopher Paolini
If you wear Crocs on a first date
~ Tucker Max
As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: 'This is me playing this character. And aren't I fantastic!' I don't feel that so much now.
~ Kristin Scott Thomas
Transparency allows your children to see you exactly as you are, and promotes the deepest kind of connection. It is also a show of true self-confidence and self-love that you accept yourself as you are, in all of your humanness.
~ Kristine Carlson
A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.
~ La Rochefoucauld
America needs to relearn a lost discipline, self-confident relentlessness...
~ Lance Morrow
I think we have established in so many ways that I am hot enough for the both of us
~ Cassandra Clare
You would make a very ugly woman" "I would not. I would be stunning
~ Cassandra Clare
It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
~ Giacomo Casanova
There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself.
~ Gilda Radner
Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.
~ Gina Carano
Why do only boys get to chase? Nuh-uh! If anything, I think this whole sitting back and waiting thing can be self-sabotaging. We have to send up flares. We have to let guys know we're open for business.
~ Ginnifer Goodwin
I've never let myself dwell on what other people think of me......You can never change their minds so why waste time trying? Why agonize over it? better to concentrate on more important things.
~ Gloria Vanderbilt