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Like, like, like. My confidence grew with each click.
— Keren David, This is Not a Love Story
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
— Leon Battista Alberti
I have been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I have never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
It was the age of confidence. Arrogance was epidemic.
— David Laskin, The Children's Blizzard
You have to pretend like you know what you’re doing before you know what you’re doing.
— Cody McLain
I am selfish. I am brave.
— Veronica Roth, Divergent
Bend over backward, do a favor, and give and build confidence in people. It's a time to compliment, support and acknowledge the good things people do.
— Erwin K. Thomas, A Weekly Encounter: Fifty-Two Meditations of Hope
People talk about confidence without ever bringing up hard work. That’s a mistake. I know I sound like some dour older spinster on Downton Abbey who has never felt a man’s touch and whose heart has turned to stone, but I don’t understand how you could have self-confidence if you don’t do the work... I have never, ever, ever, met a high confident person and successful person who is not what a movie would call a 'workaholic.' Because confidence is like respect; you have to earn it.
— Mindy Kaling, Why Not Me?
I do a weird thing when I am nervous where I tilt my head back like I am super confident. This is my attempt to fake it until I make it, or at the very least make it easier for someone to slit my throat.
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
I think women are closer to God than we are. They walk right out there like they know what they're doing.
— Barry Hannah, Airships
By voluntarily adopting a dominated body posture you display the fact that you have accepted to be inferior.
— J.F. Bouchard, James Bond`s Unshakable Confidence: Mission Pack
Society does not create nor define my beauty. I do.
— Alicia Emamdee, Aloha Self-Esteem?
Projecting an air of self-assurance will take you a long way.
— Auliq Ice
Ego likes comfort zones, safety, familiarity, boundaries, limits, a god who stays put in a box, and the known vs. the unknown. Ego can be a wimp. Unlike what most people believe, ego is not about too much confidence. Ego is about not enough confidence—confidence in the divine part of ourselves.
— Janet Rebhan, Learn To Be Still
Many people can't sing their praise or feel proud of themselves in front of others because they are scared to be labelled as 'arrogant' or 'big-headed'. Social acceptance is more important than self-esteem in the 21st century - and that’s not good.
— Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
Though the wind was commanding the sand into even ridges, it couldn't control the sea.
— Jennie Nash, The Only True Genius in the Family
You can only be as confident as your repeated interpretations of your self-worth.
I feel it's all wrong to be nervous," said Maria. "I feel it's lack of confidence. One ought to go right ahead, never minding.""Some people do," he said, "but they're the duds. They are the ones that win prizes at school, and you never hear of them again. Go on. Be nervous. Be ill. Be sick down the lavatory pan. It's part of your life from now on. You've got to go through with it. Nothing's worth while if you don't fight for it first, if you haven't a pain in your belly beforehand.
— Daphne du Maurier
Do not allow any negativity or ugliness in your surroundings, or anybody at all, destroy your confidence or affect your growth as a blooming flower. It is very normal for one ugly weed to not want to stand alone.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.
— Anonymous
GOD is determined on you.
— TemitOpe Ibrahim
The treasures in you must never be threatened by the gifts in others.
— TemitOpe Ibrahim
Quality brings security and confidence
— Sunday Adelaja
WHAT DOES YOUR WORLD LOOK LIKE?If your world seems dark and those around you speak doubt or defeat, change your circle. Reposition your life until those around you speak hope, confidence, and paths to success.
— Lorna Jackie Wilson, Black Butterfly: The Journey - The Victory
That word, confidence, was like butter on a hot stove for Darien, what he considered the most attractive quality in a woman.
— Soroosh Shahrivar, The Rise of Shams
Somewhere inside you, I hope you know who you are. I hope you know what you are. I hope you know that you're powerful. We need you.
— Danielle  Paige, The Wicked Will Rise
Those of us who have overcome so many adversities from a very young age, are privileged to be able to communicate profound insights and advice to others, speaking from a place of genuine confidence and knowing.
— Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
Dive deep and make your discovery.
— Fennel Hudson, Wild Carp - Fennel's Journal - No. 4
If there's one thing I know for sure,is that I will be successful.There's no doubt about that . I can see it!I am determined,I am willing and I am able! I'll go through ups and down but that will make success even sweeter . I will lose friends but am prepared but again I got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.The road is time.Confidence is a magnet to success.
— Cerella Sarry
The more we can embrace failure, the more we will be able to open to it and the more confident and resilient we will become.
— Karen Kimsey-House, Co-Active Leadership: Five Ways to Lead
A person who knows spiritual principles will walk confidently in God’s path, to fulfil what God has already planned to do
— Sunday Adelaja
The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them
— Queen Victoria
The victory is not to change the mind of the critic; it is to evaluate what you can learn and discard, yet still walk away with peace in your heart.
— Shannon L. Alder
It's not your job to like me, it's mine
— Bryon Katie
Certainly it would be wonderful if we all knew exactly who we were.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
I’d tell you to fetch a match, but you have always had your own spark.
— Courtney Milan, The Countess Conspiracy
But the world hinges on good fathers and those who would be the merchants of confidence.
— Michelle Franklin
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.
— Laura Kasischke, White Bird in a Blizzard
I do not know the word 'quit'. Either I never did, or I have abolished it.
— Susan Butcher
Laugh a little when the joke's on you
— Helen Gurley Brown
Affection is the source of self-confidence, happiness, security, and a comfortable mental state.
— Amanda Mosher, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
When you decide - follow it up with action as spontaneously as possible if not sooner because the quicker you reciprocate with the decision the sooner you shall see results.
— Auliq Ice
Celebrate you! For if you don’t, no one will.
— Bien Sufficient
Yes, I was a badass all right. And I no longer felt like I needed someone, but instead WANTED someone to share this newfound badassery with. I deserved the best. Anything else wouldn't do.
— Becky Ruhter
I didn’t need to be a writer to know that I could. Did you have to become a penis to act like a dick?
— Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 2
My face, body, lifestyle, I chose every aspect of myself with my own will. I don´t want to be ordered around by anyone anymore, and I have no need for a past. I´ve got dreams to fulfill, money to earn, love to find and success do achieve. They may be foolishly simplistic desire for some, but to me, working towards them bit by bit is how I build my confidence.
— Inio Asano, おやすみプンプン 1
Beauty is within
—  you just have to bring it out.
But the compulsive overachievement of today's elite college students - the sense that they need to keep running as fast as they can - is not the only thing that keeps them from forming the deeper relationships that might relieve their anguish. Something more insidious is operating, too: a resistance to vulnerability, a fear of looking like the only one who isn't capable of handling the pressure. These are young people who have always succeeded at everything, in part by projecting the confidence that they always will. Now, as they get to college, the stakes are higher and the competition fiercer. Everybody thinks that they are the only one who's suffering, so nobody says anything, so everybody suffers. Everyone feels like a fraud; everybody thinks that everybody else is smarter than they are.
— William Deresiewicz, Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
Carrying confidence isn't being the person everyone likes, it's being yourself, regardless of who likes you.
— Nikki Rowe
Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
— Alice Walker
How you react doesn’t tell a person about your character, as much as it does your fear or God's fire. Which is it?
— Shannon L. Alder
Confidence comes from relentless pursuit of perfection.
— Debasish Mridha
The knowledge that God is in control should give you confidence for the future.
— Jim George
Cullen was a bully. Bullies are cowards. You plant your feet and stay calm, they don't know what to do.
— Eric Plume, Margin Play
If you have no competition there's no need to debate.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
You don't need to be rich to have high confidence, all you do need is to be proud of yourself and there you'll go with confidence.
— Auliq Ice
You just have to live your life with confidence, not caring what they think. Just shake off the drama because you know you're better than they think you are!
— Karen  Gibbs, A Gallery of Scrapbook Creations
What God has for you, is for you. We can move forward with peace and confidence in that.
— Andrena Sawyer
Pressure has the power to create a diamond, but it has to be the "right" pressure.
— Shannon L. Alder
SOUL SHINEYou know that thingYou do so well,That little sparkYou hideIn the dark,That you thinkNobodyKnowsAboutButYou?Well,Did you knowThatThere'sA sheenThat you beam,When you talkOr doAnything,That everyoneKnowsAboutButYou?
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
I think you find your own way. You have your own rules. You have your own understanding of yourself, and that's what you're going to count on. In the end, it's what feels right to you. Not what your mother told you. Not what some actress told you. Not what anybody else told you but the still, small voice.
— Meryl Streep
Believe in yourself the way God believes in you.
— yel
Walking purposefully, in the knowledge that no one with their sleeves rolled up who walks purposefully with a piece of paper held conspicuously in their hand is ever challenged, he set off across the wood and canvas wonderland of Interesting and Instructive Kinematography.
— Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures
Confidence is always expecting a positive outcome. When you walk into a situation, be it personal or professional, when you expect things to go well, you are confident and more often than not, that confidence you exude is what attracts the positive result.
— Malti Bhojwani, The Mind Spa Ignite Your Inner Life Coach
Her stare was direct and unwavering, full of confidence earned from painful experience...
— Dean Koontz, Brother Odd
... he will seek vainly to the right and to the left and in the newspapers for a guarantee that he has actually been amused.For a sophisticated person, on the other hand, who is still unembarrassed enough to dare to be amused all by himself, who has enough self-confidence to know, without seeking advice from anyone else, whether he has been amused, farce will perhaps have a very special meaning, in that now with the spaciousness of abstraction and now with the presentation of a tangible actuality, it will affect his mood differently.He will, of course refrain from bringing a fixed and definite mood with him so that everything affects him in relation to that mood. He will have perfected his mood, in that he will be able to keep himself in a condition where no particular mood is present, but where all moods are possible.
— Søren Kierkegaard, Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs
So you see, I already have everything I want. And what do you get the man who has everything? Why, you get on your knees.
— James Schannep, Superpowered
Never be too confident or ndomdoubtful when everything is uncertain in this world.
— VEERA PRATAP DESU
Having confidence in yourself breaks the chain of doubt
— Marcelle Hinkson
Plans change, Iktomi said. Got a plan that doesn’t require explosives.Are you confident in that? Mangas asked.I’m a god, Iktomi replied. I’m always confident.I’m a human, Mangas thought, and we know shit happens.
— Brandon Nolta, Iron and Smoke
Never be too confident or doubtful when everything is uncertain in life.
— VEERA PRATAP DESU
...but beautiful mosaics are made of broken pieces.
— Lori Jenessa Nelson
Confidence is this: Wearing your triumphs with humility, and wearing your scars with pride. Many of us do precisely the opposite.
— Umair Haque
Often, our relationships become an unrealized quest for what is perfect, unfettered, and free of flaws. We expect our partners, spouses, and our friends to avoid missteps and to be magical mind readers. These secret expectations play a sinister part in many of the great tragedies of our lives: failed marriages, dissipated dreams, abandoned careers, outcast family, deserted children, and discarded friendships.We readily forget what we once knew as children: our flaws are not only natural but integral to our beings. They are interwoven into our soul’s DNA and yet we continually reject the crooked, wrinkled, mushy parts of our life rather than embrace them as the very essence of our beings.I once believed that aiming for perfection would land me in the realm of excellence. This, however, may not be the trajectory of how things happen. In fact, the pursuit of perfection may be the biggest obstacle to becoming whole.It seems essential to value hard work and determination and yet recognize that the road to excellence is littered with mistakes and subsequent lessons. Imperfection and excellence are intertwined. There is joy in our pain, strength in weakness, courage in compassion, and power in forgiveness.
— Ann Brasco
The best thing you can wear is self confidence.
— Auliq Ice
Look those tough and hard decisions in the face and make them
—  keep making them until you are confident in what you see.
All of my insecuritiesshine in the dark.
— Lori Jenessa Nelson
Nay, we sometimes proceed so far as to trust in ourselves, and depend on our own power, strength, and abilities. Then it is that God in mere mercy interposes, and breaks us in pieces; humbles, and confounds us, and so empties us of ourselves, that we may be filled with all the fullness of God. Which we cannot be, without being first emptied of that arrogance and self-conceit which stand in perfect opposition to the grace of God. Hence it appears that hope is a MILITANT VIRTUE, fighting against all that confidence in ourselves; all that self-exaltation upon the score of our own gifts, merits, righteousness, prosperity, honours, and riches, in which the natural man reposes all his confidence. The business of hope is to oppose and conquer all these delusions of the devil, and to seek its rest in the sanctuary of God.
— Johann Arndt, True Christianity
I never stop myself from doing something because I’m afraid of what people might think.
— Zooey Deschanel
I do not run from beauty, my own or anyone else's. If it is a gift, I claim it and I use it. And if it is a curse, well...I claim it and use it." Victoria da Vinci
— Austin Scott Collins, Dicing Time for Gladness
The key to success is our will power full with confidence.
— Kishore Bansal
It seems to make little sense how a person's self-worth or self-confidence should be wrapped up in how much their jacket is worth or what shoe they are wearing. Does a person's round or pointy-tip shoe really say anything of value about who a person is?It seems that true luxury lies in a freedom from needing that red-bottom shoe, that handbag with all the tiny initials and big price tag, or the latest trend to know that a person truly matters. True luxury seems to lie in the separation of confidence and materialism.Authentic luxury flourishes from the untying of self-worth from popular opinion.
— Ann Brasco
Confidence is being scared to death but getting the job done anyway.
— Todd Stocker, Becoming The Fulfilled Leader
The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to understand, and not merely to persuade other people that he understands it; and though his talents may not always be very brilliant, they are always perfectly genuine. He neither endeavours to impose upon you by the cunning devices of an artful impostor, nor by the arrogant airs of an assuming pedant, nor by the confident assertions of a superficial and imprudent pretender. He is not ostentatious even of the abilities which he really possesses. His conversation is simple and modest, and he is averse to all the quackish arts by which other people so frequently thrust themselves into public notice and reputation.
— Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments
They'll try to make you forget who you are or try to make you ashamed. But you mustn't forget and you mustn't be ashamed.
— Stephanie Dray, Lily of the Nile
The only way you will ever be free is when you decide you have had enough of living up to the standards other people force upon you through shame. Never wear their chains of judgment when they can’t break free of their own.
— Shannon L. Alder
They programmed you with the best of intentions but unfortunately their best was mediocrity.
— Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
Our confidence needs to come from within, not without. From the quality of our hearts, not the quantity of things we own. After all, he who dies with the most toys...still dies.
— Sean Covey
One asset every leader, shouldn't risk anything to lose at all cost, is team confidence.
— Unarine Ramaru
It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. It matters what you think of yourself and what your children think. So if anyone is going to ask my advice, I'd say, do what is right for you and don't give a shit what anyone else thinks
— Gwyneth Paltrow
Tomorrow is another opportunity to relentlessly and confidently push harder with your dream. You definitely haven't given it your all until you are living in its reality
You can live each day in the confidence of God’s promises.
— Elizabeth George
Never be ashamed of who you are. True shame always belongs to the person that enjoys being ashamed of who you are.
— Shannon L. Alder
Don't tell a lie to be loved, speak the truth to be hated.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
I'm the biggest critic of my own work, but sometimes you nail a chapter so good that you have to take a step back and admire that bitch.
— R.D. Ronald
Heroes are not made. They are born out of circumstances and rise to the occasion when their spirit can no longer coexist with the hypocrisy of injustice to others.
— Shannon L. Alder
My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.
— Criss Jami, Healology
Someone with a low degree of epistemic arrogance is not too visible, like a shy person at a cocktail party. We are not predisposed to respect humble people, those who try to suspend judgement. Now contemplate epistemic humility. Think of someone heavily introspective, tortured by the awareness of his own ignorance. He lacks the courage of the idiot, yet has the rare guts to say "I don't know." He does not mind looking like a fool or, worse, an ignoramus. He hesitates, he will not commit, and he agonizes over the consequences of being wrong. He introspects, introspects, and introspects until he reaches physical and nervous exhaustion.This does not necessarily mean he lacks confidence, only that he holds his own knowledge to be suspect. I will call such a person an epistemocrat; the province where the laws are structured with this kind of human fallibility in mind I will can an epistemocracy.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Clever women are hard to intimidate.
— Jeffrey Perren, The Lighthouse Pylon
Two times twice now, I have been called arrogant, by the decadent.I'd rather be overly self confident, rather than overly self indulgent.
— Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Take risks, who knows, you may be the next winner.
— Nikita Dudani
Confidence is something you feel before you truly understand the situation
— Julie E Czerneda
Those who are weak, never suck the blood of the enemy, as it is to be done with strength.
— Auliq Ice
In a world of violence
—  Humanity needs more moments of confidence.
Be confident because the odds are in your favor.' He clears his throat, like talking this much hurts him. 'Not because you're a special snowflake.
— Hannah Moskowitz, Gone, Gone, Gone
I had already made a decision early on that I would be a plain girl with lots of personality, and accepting it made everything a lot easier. If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be.
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Never allow yourself to become a choice in any relationship. The moment you do is when you have reduced your loved one's affections to a daily biological question: Should I take a dump here or wait till I get home?
— Shannon L. Alder
be a woman of confidence and self-respect
—  give a man a reason worth fighting for.
Fear the vulture and the vulture will come. Fear nothing and you are the vulture.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
The only way we succeed as a group is not simply following directions, but in keeping each other accountable for our actions.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
When Eleanor was a little girl, she'd thought her mom looked like a queen, like the star of some fairy tale.Not a princess - princesses are just pretty. Eleanor's mother was beautiful. She was tall and stately, with broad shoulders and an elegant waist. All of her bones seemed more purposeful than other people's. Like they weren't just there to hold her up, they were there to make a point.
— Rainbow Rowell
Emperors are not made from cowards
—  they are made from those who take great risk where there stands to be even greater gain.
Picture the person who intimidates you most. Now picture them crouched like a dog, pooping on the sidewalk, looking up at you, all vulnerable. We all poop. Maybe not on the sidewalk, but nobody is better than you and don't let them think they are for a minute.
— Caprice Crane, Confessions of a Hater
I don't want to play; I want to win. But if you give me the rules, I'll take it from there.
— Veronica Rossi, Into the Still Blue
Some people are born to hold keys, while others are born to use them.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
Calmness and confidence are the source of energy brings with itself unlimited opportunities. Let us but ring out the old, ring in the new.
— Kishore Bansal
You are capable of igniting the flame of light within you.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Greatness is not a gift that one can give to another, but rather is a thief's relic that we must take for ourselves.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
Someone who is self assured celebrates the accomplishments of others.
— Thea Harris, Pour the Oil
Confidence matters a lot than what you want to say, if you are not bold enough.
— Auliq Ice
BeastlyIt's okay to be differentIt's up to you to be magnificentYou are the one that mattersDon't allow yourself to be shatteredDo allow yourself to silence the noiseFeel everything including the joysBeastly doesn't have to be uglyIt's up to you to make it lovely
— Stace Lee
Make sure u have to FEEL your confidence, or you wouldn't be in that case…
— Sil Vereecken
Every time when it rains it stops raining... After darkness there is always a light... Every time you sleep you get up fresh.. Never Give Up at your tough time. You are successful if you have ability to handle your nervousness and go on with confidence..
— Ahad Aadi
It will end in praise, if you are not singing praises, it hasn't ended.
— Flo Falayi
Doormatitis: door-mat-i-tis noun; low self-worth. A learned behavior where the infected person allows others to walk all over them, blame them, treat them terribly, always giving the boundary crossers the benefit of the doubt. They make excuses for them, They will give in to guilt and intimidation and give the boundary crossers what they want again and again." P.A. Speers Dictionary
— P.A. Speers, Type 1 Sociopath - When Difficult People Are More Than Just Difficult People
The secret to happiness, peace, and self-confidence is to forgive yourself and forgive others.
— Debasish Mridha
Probe deeply enough, under the slickest façade of confidence, and you tapped a vein of self-doubt or a hidden fear. Irrational fears and baseless doubts, many of them, but that was precisely why constant reassurance was necessary to the human animal.
— Barbara Michaels
For that genuine smile on your face, find the lost confidence and then that's it!
— Somya Kedia
Voice your opinion and let the confidence in you stand still
— Somya Kedia
Don’t let the fact you haven’t done something before convince you that you can’t do it, or that it cannot be done perfectly the first time you try your hand at it.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
To get to where you need to be, you have to go where you don't feel prepared to go.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
Lack of self-confidence is, more often than not, simple laziness. We feel confused and uncertain because we do not know. But instead of making the effort to investigate, we procrastinate and worry. We tell ourselves we can't instead of learning how we can. If we used the mental energy we expend in worry and fear to get out and find out about what we do not know, we would see our self-confidence grow. Lack of self-confidence is not overcome by faith, but by action. It is a lack, not of certainty, but of effort. Too often we are certain that we can't before we give ourselves a fair chance.
— Laurence G. Boldt
I am not optimistic or pessimistic. I feel that optimism and pessimism are very unbalanced. I am a very hard engineer. I am a mechanic. I am a sailor. I am an air pilot. I don't tell people I can get you across the ocean with my ship unless I know what I'm talking about.
— R. Buckminster Fuller, Only Integrity Is Going to Count: Integrity Day, Los Angeles February 26, 1983
Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
— Diane Arbus
You are caught in the vicious cycle. You are hesitant because you are not used for things going your way. And things will never go your way because you remain hesitant. You see what you want, become hesitant, and the door of opportunity closes. It happens again. And again. And again. With each choice towards Inaction, you reject yourself a little bit more.
— Pook, The Book of Pook
One who is truly confident is able to apologize.
— Olivia Tsoutsoplides
A diminished self-image causes us to slouch, to avoid looking others in the eye, to be unassertive, to be indecisive. On the other hand, a healthy self-image causes us to carry ourselves well, to speak confidently and to portray dignity. If we have not taken the time and thought to create a wonderful self-image for ourselves, we have had less, been less, and done less than was possible for us than if we had. We can improve our self-images at any moment including this one.
— Wu Wei, I Ching Wisdom: More Guidance from the Book of Answers, Volume Two
The ability for a person to operate satisfactorily in a thing is dependent on how much he knows about that thing. Ignorance is a major cause of inability.
— Yusuf A. Leinge
This, Calvin realised, as Joey grinned and told him sweetly to “Suck that dick” was what it was like to be God: utter confidence, utter trust, utter ease with yourself, no move you could not make, no tank top you could not wear, no guy who would not worship you, not ever. This was the end state. Bliss.
— David     Pratt, Looking After Joey
Have confidence. Like the first spark of morning light against the entire night sky recognize the Power and Brilliance within you.
— Marrett Green
This new thought has turned into a mantra repeating itself in my head: I am a daring, fun, sexy woman.
— Anna Bayes, Love Letter
Confidence, darling." He leans across the table and touches a finger to my cheek. "You could learn something from me, you know.
— Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. What matters is you can look in the mirror, and love who you see.
— B. Dave Walters
The elevator to success broke a long time ago, the problem is too many people are too lazy to take the stairs.
— Jacob Maldonado
What if you're chicken? What if you're more chicken than chicken soup?" Malloy said. Kit gave him a long, hard look. "Then you pretend you're not. You pretend so hard it comes true.
— Tania Unsworth, The One Safe Place
Think about the stigma that is attached to the idea that alcoholism is a disease, an incurable illness, and you have it. That's a terrible thing to inflict on someone. Labeling alcoholism as a disease, a cause unto itself, simply no longer fits with what we know today about its causes.
— Chris Prentiss, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure
You have 100% control over yourself, and your life. It is up to you to stop giving your power away, and to decide what you want to be, do, or have...and go after it.
— B. Dave Walters
Naturally, the plague of humanity named confidence (or pride to some), which symptoms often render each person to fiercely believe himself to be above average, let them to believe that it was others who were affected by this case but not them. Everyone thought they had the quintessential ability to detach themselves from the cases they were working, even if the victim looked and behaved exactly like their son, daughter, niece or nephew.
— Bruce Crown, Chronic Passions
Confidence is not some nonphysical quality snatched from the spiritual dimension and installed in the mind. It is the feeling that arises when the body's knowledge of itself is in harmony with a person's dreams.
— Matt Fitzgerald, RUN: The Mind-Body Method of Running by Feel
It is in the center of a stable self-love that you will find the confidence and safety you want.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Ask with Confidence, listen with humility.
— Charlie Van Hecke, The Art of the Q: Build Your Business with Questions
Beginning with End in focus ,a proof of self confidence
— Mohammed Mushtaq GK
Life is unpredictable.But do not allow the difficulties of day-to-day to deprive you of your confidence and hope. Never allow life's disappointments to get you down. Get up any time you fall.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The closer he was the less confident I was.
— Shannon A. Thompson, Take Me Tomorrow
How you carry yourself speaks volumes about how you feel about yourself.
— Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
Proper posture sends a positive message since 90% of all communication occures through body language and how you carry yourself.
— Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
A strong confident person can rule the room with knowledge, personal style, attitude and great posture.
— Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
For there are two reasons why human beings face danger calmly: they may have no experience of it, or they may have means to deal with it: thus when in danger at sea people may feel confident about what will happen either because they have no experience of bad weather, or because their experience gives them the means of dealing with it.
— Aristotle, The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle
Our nonverbal behavior (including posture) gives away our inner personality and reflects our inner attitude.
— Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
his unwavering confidence - but now, it feels like a brand of indifference
— Emily Giffin, Heart of the Matter
Always walk with style and finesse.
— Cindy Ann Peterson
This new resolve gave her a sort of light-headed self-confidence: when she left the dinner-table she felt so easy and careless that she was surprised to see that the glass of champagne beside her plate was untouched. She felt as if all its sparkles were whirling through her.
— Edith Wharton, The Mother's Recompense
Your posture is the key to your personal and professional foundation.
— Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
By taking good care of your posture now, you will enjoy and savor lifelong health benefits and beauty.
— Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
In all areas of your life, striving for proper posture can enhance your career, style and health.
— Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
You project a confident image through good body posture.
— Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
No amount of high fashion can make up for a lifetime of poor posture.
— Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
Great style and posture go hand in hand.
— Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
Victorious troops are those who kill more, and here we were the victims. This put the finishing touch to our demoralisation. The soldiers had lost conviction long ago. Now they lost confidence.
— Gabriel Chevallier, Fear: A Novel of World War I
Confident posture gets you noticed for all the right reasons.
— Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
Great posture is the foundation that always fits.
— Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
Great posture never goes out of style.
— Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
You don't become a runner by winning a morning workout. The only true way is to marshal the ferocity of your ambition over the course of many day, weeks, months, and (if you could finally come to accept it) years. The Trial of Miles; Miles of Trials.
— Matt Fitzgerald, RUN: The Mind-Body Method of Running by Feel
You shouldn't want to be like everyone else. Then you wouldn't be like you.
— Cristina Henriquez, The Book of Unknown Americans
Don't plead with anyone if you were not at fault, you'll only look inferior, stupid and funny, bolster your ego by doing the undoing.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Every morning you are reborn, and prove it worthwhile.
— Jay Doll
When a woman shows confidence and another claims arrogance, she is usually suffering from jealousy.
— Teresa Mummert
Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
A very disturbing feature of overconfidence is that it often appears to be poorly associated with knowledge - that is, the more ignorant the individual, the more confident he or she might be.
— Robert Trivers, Deceit and Self-Deception: Fooling Yourself the Better to Fool Others
Style is when they're running you out of town and you make it look like you're leading the parade.
— William Battie
There’s only one person to blame for lack of self confidence
— Benny Bellamacina, Philosophical uplifting quotes and poems
Today and tomorrow is an illusion, days are all joined together, and if you are waiting for your time, you are wasting your time.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds
Comfortable in my own skin,I'm madly in love with myself.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, This Is My Life
Your hair is your helmet- wear it well.
— Stacy Snapp Killian aka StacyK
That tide of insecurity would come in and out over the years, sometimes stranding me for a while but occasionally lifting me just beyond what I thought I could accomplish. Either way, it would wash over the same bedrock certainty: ultimately, I know myself. At each stage of my life, I've had a pretty clear notion of my needs and of what I was ready for.
— Sonia Sotomayor, My Beloved World
Its sometimes important to not take life so seriously, so life could woo you by showing you some good time.
— Rupali Rajopadhye Rotti
He looks between the two. "Evie," he starts, as if he's explaining something to a five year old, "You do know that they can say whatever they want to on the package, right? It doesn't mean it's true.""Well, see," I counter, "You're right. But you're also wrong. I think that 95 percent of knowing you're the greatest is all about confidence. You might suspect you're the greatest, you might hope you're the greatest, but if you don't have the balls to proclaim yourself the greatest in bold packaging, and let your critics test you if they dare, then you probably aren't the greatest. Who can resist the guy who really, truly believes in himself?
— Mia Sheridan, Leo
Confidence is the quiet assurance you are enough.
— Ruthie Dean, Real Men Don't Text: A New Approach to Dating
Be deliberate in your choices. We are created to do what we are called to do and what we are born to experience, not what we believe other people expect us to do. Your time is precious.
— Julie Connor, Dreams to Action Trailblazer's Guide
Seeing my mother get back to her studies was all the proof I needed that a chain of emotion can persuade when one forged of logic won't hold. But more important was her example that a surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence. It was something I would remember often in years ahead, whenever faced with fears that I wasn't smart enough to succeed.
— Sonia Sotomayor, My Beloved World
Posture is paramount to your future.
— Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
I don’t even pretend to believe I know everything; I just believe in arguments God told me I had a pretty good chance of winning, while I was traveling through hell.
— Shannon L. Alder
What did the Romans say? “De gustibus non est disputandum”: It is worthless to discuss personal taste. It is called 'personal' for a reason.
— Massimo Marino, Daimones
It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one simply assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best." -Destruction
— Neil Gaiman, The Wake
Confidence is not about being self-centered. It's about being emotionally centered, so you can better see other people.
— Karen C. Eddington, Understanding Self-Worth: Build Confidence and Self-Acceptance
When you bury your head in the sand you leave your backside exposed to those who seek to take advantage.
— Gary   Hopkins
Confidence, just like success, is self made.
— Sergey Shcherbatyuk
I've always felt that I did well as a student because I lacked confidence.
— Denton Cooley
I am not fake, I am just too good to be true (-:
— Mahsati Abdul
Overcoming challenges purifies you like gold to become bold.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
One should try to live with his abilities rather than his deprivals.
— M.H. Rakib, The Cavalier
It's not that I can't express myself,it's that I still feel present when I'm not expressing myself.
— Kim Myungsoo
Time has wings it is flying but it has no shape, no colour ,no dimension so it is invisible.
— Syed Afroz Alam
Confidence confers on you the courage to conquer challenges.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Faith is a process in action. It cannot exist without work.
— Ellen J. Barrier, How to Trust God When All Other Resources Have Failed
Faith is the key to spiritual growth and requires a deep and personal connection with God. He wants to be the head of our hearts, king of our souls, and guide to our spirit. By allowing Him free reign in these areas we create an opportunity for lasting intimacy with the Creator. From intimacy comes confidence – in Him and in us.
— Kristen Clark, Becoming a Woman of Worth: Creating a More Confident You
Time may heal all wounds, but confidence once shattered may never be fully restored.
— Musawir Masood
When we believe we can, we do – even when it seems all odds are against us.
— Kristen Clark
If you want confidence and don’t know how to get it, a really good way is to be confident in other people. When you walk into Starbucks, think, “damn, that barista’s hair is da bomb!” Or when you go to school, think, “my teacher is rocking that skirt!” When you start seeing everyone as being beautiful, at some point you realise that you’re everyone too.
— green-tea-rex
Confidence is what we get when we take fear, face it and replace it.
— Tim Fargo
So you were talking crap about me? Hm. I missed it. I was too busy being fabulous.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
When someone points out your past mistakes, look at them dead in the eyes and follow with, 'and I’d do it all again to have the life I have now.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
If you think you are powerless, then you are
— Monica Ali, Brick Lane
Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.
— Bruce Lee
This is the key to the entire universe. You know what this is? It's not a microphone, this right here is your voice. This physical thing just amplifies it. Don't be afraid of your voice. You have a voice without a microphone. Use it and don't let anybody snuff you out and tell you don't have one.
— Hayley Williams
I want to be judged by who I am as a person, not by what happened to me. In fact, all the bad things have only contributed to my confidence and sense of self, because I survived them and became a better and stronger person.
— Jenna Jameson, How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale
Confidence is good, but when they hold their heads high like that, it just makes them look cocky and snobbish.
— Grace Fiorre, The Nothing Spirit: Nothing is Everything
Crap talk
—  Noun. A condition where one's insecurities come spilling out of his mouth making him look like an unconfident idiot.
Confidence
—  Noun. A condition where one knows what he is good at no matter how much you try to convince him otherwise.
You're so good at what you do, keep pushing, success is on the table at all times!
— Sereda Aleta Dailey, The Magnificent Weight Loss System
Remember, Reilly, gossip is just people's insecurity and fear of what they don't really understand," Eilam said. "It is unconsciously propagated to feed their egos.""Doesn't it ever bother you?", Reilly asked as he pulled the top off his yogurt."I've lived too long to put any stock in the external judgements of others,or to take anything personally.
— S.L. Whyte, Stelladaur: Finding Tir Na Nog
She was alive. She was alive, and she had found her power — or it had found her.Tomorrow’s problems she’d take care of tomorrow.
— Elizabeth Bear, Range of Ghosts
A lot of people don't like me. I take that as evidence that I have done something beautifully different or something extraordinary.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
There is something really good to say about humility. Being confident and humble is a great combination, maybe the best of all!
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
When you conquer fear, you unleash a greater power from within you.
— Stephan Labossiere
It happens very often that those whom men esteem highly are more seriously endangered by their own excessive confidence. Hence, for many it is better not to be too free from temptations, but often to be tried lest they become too secure, too filled with pride, or even too eager to fall back upon external comforts.
— Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.
— Guru Nanak, Sri Guru Granth Sahib
Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.
— Charles F. Stanley
He can't value you more than you value yourself.
— Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
This the touch of my lips to yours, this the murmur of yearning,   This the far-off depth and height reflecting my own face,   This the thoughtful merge of myself, and the outlet again.   Do you guess I have some intricate purpose?   Well I have, for the Fourth-month showers have, and the mica on the           side of a rock has.   Do you take it I would astonish?   Does the daylight astonish? does the early redstart twittering           through the woods?   Do I astonish more than they?   This hour I tell things in confidence, I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.
— Walt Whitman
Some party hack decreed that the peoplehad lost the government's confidenceand could only regain it with redoubled effort.If that is the case, would it not be be simpler,If the government simply dissolved the peopleAnd elected another?
— Bertolt Brecht
I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Stop living the life with possibilities and probabilities, live the life with certainties.
— Amit Kalantri
Embracing your true self radiates a natural beauty that cannot be diluted or ignored. Confident, powerful, untamable, badass you!
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
The only known technique to an imitator is to steal and rephrase, then with a mischievous smile, he said, "i did it", without any confidence and prove.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
The best team does not always win, it's the team that plays the best.
— Rob  Bell, The Hinge: The Importance of Mental Toughness
There was no guarantee of victory if I remained the same or just tried to be myself, but there was certain defeat in pretending to be something I was not.
— J.W. Lord
A lie with confidence is more powerful than a truth without it.
— M.F. Moonzajer
There is nothing more worthwhile than knowing that you know...
— Gino Norris, Stress Diary Journal
You have people out here trying to tell you to accept imperfections and that nobody is perfect (except for a dead/make-believe entity?) but if you are telling yourself that you are not perfect, aren't you downgrading your own character? Why would you keep telling yourself you are less than what you are? Why destroy your pride? People, raise your heads and gain some vanity. If you are the best in the world at what you do, and the best in the world in who you are, you are certainly perfect. The only way you are not perfect, is if you let everyone fool you into believing you are not perfect; that you are the same as everyone else - less than what you are and could be.
— Lionel Suggs
Karna gave a mirthless smile and replied evenly,'What is the use of a competition if one cannot be compared with others? Talk is the weapon of the weak; release your arrows instead of hollow words.
— Kavita Kané, Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen
Step forward out of your own lingering residual sense of smallness, take up every inch of life that is your blessed inheritance, and DO YOUR THING.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Never second guess yourself. Or do, maybe. Whatever you feel good about.
— Dan Florence, Zombies Love Pizza