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Quotes About Self-assurance

If I have a bad hair day, I just think, 'Well, it will be an OK hair day tomorrow. Just put your head down and go.'
~ Mitt Romney
I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy.
~ Lara Flynn Boyle
Understanding who you are is saying, 'You're great; you have tons of confidence, and don't ever forget that.' And that helped me, man. Because when things weren't going right, I thought, 'You've got to remember who you are. Don't stray from that. Don't let these things get you down.'
~ Paul Pierce
A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.
~ Pauline Kael
I think imagination can be an incredibly powerful tool and it can help you get more confidence.
~ Kate Nash
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I mean, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
~ Joe Flacco
There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude -- confidence in self.
~ Seneca
confidence. If you pretend you are courageous over and over, you may eventually realize that you have become courageous.
~ Shannon Miller
When you're young, you think you can handle anything. By the time you find out otherwise, it's already too late. You got a stocking wrapped around your neck.
~ Haruki Murakami
Settle down, Princess. It's not my first time.
~ Ilona Andrews
I knew I could do it all this time," said Harry, "Because I'd already done it... does that make sense?
~ J. K. Rowling
I realised something important: whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is safe.
~ Jeanette Winterson
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
~ George Bernard Shaw
You have got to believe in yourself every time you go out there and race. If you have no faith in your ability all that training has been a waste of time.
~ Maurice Greene
Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
Id just like to prove to myself that Im all here and all together and can get the best out of myself. Id also like to prove that to a couple of other people.
~ Roy Harper
However, I did not go home, and I must face him. And I shall do so without a blush or a tremor. I shall not give him the satisfaction of knowing that I even remember yesterday and last night.
~ Mary Balogh
Stevie, how many stories - It's all one story, Stevie said, and the confidence in her voice surprised her. It was about money then, and it's about money now.
~ Maureen Johnson
Dagny leaned back in her chair. The short sentence was a shock. It was not merely relief: it was the sudden realization that nothing else was necessary to guarantee that it would be done; she needed no proofs, no questions, no explanations; a complex problem could rest safely on three syllables pronounced by a man who knew what he was saying.
~ Ayn Rand
The room was full when I walked in, but as soon as I took my place behind the desk, my nervousness left me.
~ Azar Nafisi
I had nothing to escape from except my own inner doubt.
~ Barack Obama
If you're going to do this work, Barack, you've got to stop worrying about whether people like you. They won't." Patronage
~ Barack Obama
Confidence. The secret to a man's success.
~ Barack Obama
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
~ Barbara Kingsolver