Quotes About Self-assurance

I'm really lucky that I can control my nerves; it doesn't seem to get to me.

The nerves are still there. I might just do a better job at hiding them.

After doing the first couple scenes and I got used to being in front of a few people it got easier and easier. In Chasing Amy, I wasn't nervous at all. And in Dogma, the same.

A bit of nervousness is essential as in a way it helps you deliver your best.

Everything I do, I build a kind of confidence net - 'I'm able to execute this; it's fine.'

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

I have no doubt who I am.

I was always - and I have no idea where it came from - a confident boy. And when I look at how I've lived my life that's how I've lived it.

Who cares about my cock? It'll fend for itself.

I like to know that there are big places without windows where no one gives a shit. You need confidence to go into small places with regular customers—small bookshops and small music shops and small restaurants and cafés. I'm happiest in the Virgin Megastore and Borders and Starbucks and PizzaExpress, where no one gives a shit, and no one knows who you are.

in order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

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His talent was appearing to understand obvious realities that other people could not see, expressed with the kind of self-assurance that can only come from extreme wealth.

One becomes very strong when one abandons all one's doubts.

You say a thing so often and so well that after a time everyone believes it. Even, finally, yourself.

And I was fairly certain that my strong-enough-for-King-Kong-but-made-for-a-woman deodorant had utterly failed. --Doom with a View

Quienes pueden, pueden porque piensan que pueden.

They start the day confident, braced, believing themselves desired at Miss Smith's tea party; they say to themselves as they go into the room, I am the superior of half the people here, and it is thus that they speak with that self-confidence, that self-assurance, which have had such profound consequences in public life and lead to such curious notes in the margin of the private mind.

Such incidents have convinced me that my heart is basically sound despite recent diagnoses.

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

I knew I was as good as anybody. That's not really bragging; it's just that I'd put the time in.

I am confused at the idea of dressing for someone else. It makes little sense to me.

I began to understand that dancing well had everything to do with believing you could. Like those dreams of flying- dipping gracefully through the air in your weightless body- if in your sleep, you stopped to think about it for more than half a second, you'd crash like a sack of dead ducks onto the roof of a church.

I do it because I can.