Quotes About Self-assurance

Not like the me was some tough somebody, or somebody she had put together for show. But like, like somebody she favored and could count on. A secret somebody you didn't have to feel sorry for or have to fight for. -Felice

Not like 'me' was some tough somebody, or somebody she had put together for show. But like somebody she favored and could count on. A secret somebody you didn't have to feel sorry for or have to fight for.

She wondered, briefly, if she was beautiful, decided she was and blew a kiss to her reflection

And if I may give you a piece of advice: a clever woman succeeds in concealing her jealousy. Otherwise we men always feel so sure of ourselves.…

if you believe you can, or believe you can't - either way you're right

The only part of her that she had to leave behind was the part of her that doubted what she was capable of.

I knew that until I truly believed that whatever I did was the exact right thing, I'd keep doing the wrong thing.

In contrast, solid self-esteem depends on nothing outside the self.

She was wrong." I shrugged. "I can say that," I said. "It's harder to believe it.

I shrugged. "I can say that," I said. "It's harder to believe it.

If you don't buy into your story, nobody else will.

when you do not seek or need external approval, you are at your most powerful.

Your boat's not like to sink, I don't think. Boats only sink when I'm aboard.

The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence.

[Self-]assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

There are innumerable instances suggesting that modern intellectuals do not believe themselves, that they don't really believe what they say, that they say certain things only in order to assure themselves that they possess opinions and ideas that are different from those that are entertained by the common herd of men.

When you've got the personality, you don't need the nudity.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Man's security comes from within himself.

To succeed is nothing-it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.

We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think that we can!

I may have faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.