Confidence Quotes - Page 24

If you can establish yourself in the community as a giver, those people with whom you associate yourself will extend your branding far beyond you.

Fear the vulture and the vulture will come. Fear nothing and you are the vulture.

One-night stands were invented to free men from worrying about the size of their penis. And to free women from worrying about the size of their stretch marks.

Only by guarding yourself with righteousness will you feel peace and confidence at the height of success

One of the unexpected and wonderfully fair things I have learned in my career is that if Hollywood were filled just with perfect-looking people, then soap operas would be the most-watched things in the world. But they're not. Looks are great, but they're not compelling enough. I've noticed that successful actors with long careers are usually talented actors with charismatic screen presences, and all of them exude one thing: confidence.

No," said the cat. "Now, you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

When people say, "Oh you're so cocky. You're so arrogant," I feel like they're telling me that I think too highly of myself. My question for them is: "Who are you to tell me that I need to think less of myself?

They programmed you with the best of intentions but unfortunately their best was mediocrity.

The treasures in you must never be threatened by the gifts in others.

Walk amongst the natives by day, but in your heart be Superman.

Stand strong in your worth and don't let anyone talk you out of it.

One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Perfection is the enemy of authenticity.

When haters start to rear their ugly head, just play around with them and throw them a bone so they can go away and chew on it.

I usually can’t stop babbling, just to fill space, but with Julienne, I can see the appeal of just being. Julienne is quiet, obviously, but that’s because she can say what she means to in so few words. She has a commanding presence that’s hard to ignore. Julienne doesn’t seem to feel the same urgency other people do. Everyone else, myself included, is constantly vying for a space to occupy, just for the sake of it. But when Julienne does share, it’s incredible. She has an actual opinion on everything, not just something to say, and I want to hear about all of them.

Don't let a mediocre person tell you what you are capable of or how your future is going to be.

I thought we were celebrating being richer and cleverer than everyone else!

Everyone has to start somewhere. So get out there and start.

I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete. He had finished the work of becoming himself, long before any of us could even imagine such a feat was possible.

I'm stone, nothing touches me-nothing.

Confidence creates courage.

I walk with my head high, shoulders squared. I'm better than them. No matter the whispers and taunts they throw out. Fuck them. Fuck them all.

The spirit of divinity lives in you. The power is unlock by faith, hope and courage.

When we feel that all eyes are upon on us, it is often difficultto take chances in expressing our individuality.

Our self-conceit sustains and always must sustain us.

My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.

It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story.

All we are in possession of is the result of the snowballing attitude of our minds.

Self-love, self-confident and self-determination.

The problems afflicting a nation are always in equal measure spiritual crises.

The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.

When you do anything from a clear judgment that it ought to be done, never shrink from being seen to do it, even though the world should misunderstand it; for if you are not acting rightly, shun the action itself; if you are, why fear those who wrongly censure you?

Sharing your passion with others will not only enlighten them to your dedication and commitment, it can enable you to garner their participation, collaboration, cooperation, and endorsement.

It’s almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I’m just going, ‘Any moment, someone’s going to find out I’m a total fraud, and that I don’t deserve any of what I’ve achieved.’ I can’t possibly live up to what everyone thinks I am and what everyone’s expectations of me are.

My mind may be sober, but my confidence is high!

Being able to unlock your subconscious mind depends on knowing what you want before you can achieve it.

This new thought has turned into a mantra repeating itself in my head: I am a daring, fun, sexy woman.

It is time to stop standing at the edges of rooms. Hugging the walls. Living in my head. Wishing I had something to say.

Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty.

The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

One need not know one's karma, but have faith in life to be able to keep on going. With faith one can let go and let things take its course, embrace life and merge with it. Because she is the way.

The Great Wall of Facebook:Having just visited the Great Wall of China, I'm thinking about the walls we build on FB. They are real. They keep people in and others out.Build your wall carefully by answering this question:What are you building your wall around?

For that genuine smile on your face, find the lost confidence and then that's it!

The odds are, you highly underestimate how awesome you are. Stop doing that.

God may create us but we Define

To turn yourself inside out to impress another human being, you will become a stranger in your own skin. Twisting oneself into knots on behalf of someone else will do two things. It will make you a scattered soul ripped to shreds with stress. And, just make the other person hungry for pretzels. Strength is marrow born. Flip the script and let that opposing force choke on the crushing mound of their own disbelief. " - A.H. Scott4/8/16

She might have come in the gallery faking the stride of a sexual, confident, dangerous woman, but on the way out, it was all real.

When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true

That’s the key, you know, confidence. I know for a fact that if you genuinely like your body, so can others. It doesn’t really matter if it’s short, tall, fat or thin, it just matters that you can find some things to like about it. Even if that means having a good laugh at the bits of it that wobble independently, occasionally, that’s all right. It might take you a while to believe me on this one, lots of people don’t because they seem to suffer from self-hatred that precludes them from imagining that a big woman could ever love herself because they don’t. But I do. I know what I’ve got is a bit strange and difficult to love but those are the very aspects that I love the most! It’s a bit like people. I’ve never been particularly attracted to the uniform of conventional beauty. I’m always a bit suspicious of people who feel compelled to conform. I personally like the adventure of difference. And what’s beauty, anyway?

Never feel intimidated by defeat nor death, but rather intimidate life with your dreams.

If they're friends, then they've got your back . . . whether you're there or not. Friends won't "forget" about you.

A mind that trusts itself is light on its feet.

I was the luckiest girl. Don’t you think because I didn’t have no proper man or husband I was anything else. Wasn’t no place I’d rather be than right there. Even now, I pine for that uncomfortable rock. Because he was watching over me and loneliness was some far off thing, echoing off the Rock from other folks. Wasn’t nothing could ruin it for me.

[I]t would be a niceness that was enforced leniently, patiently and gracefully, with the sort of unflappable self-certainty [they] couldn't help displaying when all its statistics proved that it really was doing the right thing.

...4-5-6: when time escapes the day in its most beautiful way. She starves for that beauty, she longs to quench her limitless thirst, but those moments are so fleeting and their limit is her unrest. Her bones are hollow and heavy as she takes a single step, and in that instant she is gone, blinded by the flash of a stray ray of light, her eyes close in that moment and stars flood her night. She falls forward slow, counting the half seconds of her descent. Her eyes stay closed, her thoughts are spent.

My heart may be bruised and scarred, bleeding slow drip-drip with every thump and every other thump-thump that widens unsealable wounds. My heart is the strongest part of me. It's survived everything I've thrown at it and much more than it should.

Much to the confusion of small-minded people, confidence does not equate arrogance.

Never second guess yourself. Or do, maybe. Whatever you feel good about.