Quotes About Self-assurance

To the members of the school board—who, in early 1923, rewarded him with a two-year extension of his contract, with an annual $200 raise15—Huyck's demonstrated success as an administrator derived in large measure from his absolute self-assurance and comfort with exercising authority.16 Those same qualities would also make Huyck the target of one deeply unstable man's deadly and implacable hatred.

Always believe in yourself. Do this and no matter where you are, you will have nothing to fear.

I don't mind my age.

Trusting your inner voice, which is one of the critical steps in developing intuition, is predicated on being truly self-confident.

I am learning how to let my yes be yes and my no mean no without the need to justify why I choose to say either.

The moral of the story is that if you tell yourself you can do something, then you can actually do it, a moral easily disproved if you tell yourself that you can eat nine pints of ice cream in a single sitting, or that you can shipwreck yourself on a distant island simply by setting off in a rented canoe with holes sawed in it.

Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd. As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it.

It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was not part of her disposition.

You have to trust your own abilities, and not doubt them because someone else does. If we do carry out our present plans, you'll have to hold your own sense of integrity in the face of skepticism

A girl who made no mistakes about the right shade of lipstick would always land on her feet.

It is hard to know whether an air of self-confidence precedes or follows success.

There's me and then there's you, and you aren't ever going to be as good as me, Sweet Thing. Ranger

You're no David Niven," Lula

I don't like the feeling of being unhappy. I don't like the feeling of being unsure about myself, or uncertain with where something's going - I would rather turn away. I just can't feel like that ever again. It's just horrible.

If you let yourself believe that you are unsure about what you're doing, then the game is fast. But if you go out there and you're confident and have an idea of what you're supposed to do, then the game slows down for you.

I don't get upset if people think I'm crazy. If you go to a mental hospital and someone calls you a name, would you get upset? Of course not. Well, that's the way I think about the world. They don't know any better.

I just kind of live in that world that everyone's upset with me. That's OK; I'll just go out and try and do what I do.

If a person doesn't like me or doesn't like my game, OK, that's how they feel. Can't be upset with it.

I think that I was being much more uptight about those things before. I feel like I really don't have to prove anything at this point other than what I'm doing.

I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way.

Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.

I'm proud that I was able to start with nothing, plan it and have it work as perfectly as it did... I sleep clearly every night.

I've never had high expectations of my work and I certainly am not going to let that plague my thoughts. I'm just going to continue to choose what feels right for me at the time and go with it.

I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself.