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It is common knowledge among psychologists that most of us underrate ourselves, short-change ourselves, sell ourselves short. Actually, there is no such thing as a superiority complex. People who seem to have one are actually suffering from feelings of inferiority; their "superior" self is a fiction, a coverup, to hide from themselves and others their deep-down feelings of inferiority and insecurity.
— Maxwell Maltz, The New Psycho-Cybernetics: The Original Science of Self-Improvement and Success That Has Changed the Lives of 30 Million People
Yet none of these things gave him confidence. All they gave him was egotism, which is less the conviction of one's worth than the desire for that conviction.
— Jetta Carleton, The Moonflower Vine
He had the charm of all people who believe implicitly in themselves, that of integration.
— John Fowles, The Magus
I walked out. I left. Andy Jankowski had taught me how.
— Nancy Werlin, Black Mirror
At this point in my life, beaming confidence is largely a matter of mind over bladder control
— Josh Stern, And That’s Why I’m Single
I am less blindly confident than I once was, for I have been learning a truer estimate of myself, my failings and limitations, in these dark days. I have learnt to hope that if there be a Judgment Day of some kind, God will not see us with our own eyes, nor judge us as we judge ourselves.
— Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth
I always go for confident girls!
— Kenny Wormald
Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels, suspecting and doubting nothing, and always seeing friends where they are not sure of foes.
— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
I think we can do it.""But you don't know for sure," he said."No.""Geez, Anita.""Don't get rattled on me. We can do this.""But you aren't sure.""I'm not sure we'll survive the plane ride home, but I'm still getting on the plane.""Was that supposed to be comforting?" he asked."Yeah.""It wasn't," he said."Sorry, but this is as good as it gets. You want certainty, be an accountant.""I'm not good at math.""Me either.
— Laurell K. Hamilton, Bloody Bones
Confidence doesn't come from what you think you know, it comes from what you already know.
— Abdulkadir Abdullahi Mohamed Mirre
The flea that doubts doesn't jump nearly as high
— Marty Rubin
The Christian should never have to put others down in order to feel good about himself. Instead, he can simply check out the media's insistent portrayal of Christianity and feel grateful that he isn't as deceived as the masses who really swallow the garbage. Ignorance is ultimately how people put themselves down, and the mere Christian who knows what entails the mere Christian is ultimately free from such.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Ariel sighed. “How are you not self-conscious about that?”Kitty chuckled. “Hey, I got used to it in a hurry, and I kind of like the side perks. I always wanted to … y’know, be superhuman, do some of the things I’ve been able to do with this setup.” She curled her tail up to take it in her hands. “Now I know how the guys feel, having something extra in your pants tends to be awkward after a while.
— Don A. Martinez, The Advance Guard
Our Lord speaks of many coming up to His door confident of admission, whom He yet sends away. Faith is obedience, not confidence.
— George MacDonald, The Marquis' Secret
Well, laddie, if you've let an old buzzard like me hurt you confidence, you couldn't have had much in the first place.
— Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure
There is nothing about you to be embarrassed about
— S.C. Stephens, Thoughtless
There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation
—  refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry.
He inclined his head ever so slightly, displaying with his bearing the supreme confidence, even arrogance, that is the sole providence of cats, dragons, and certain highborn women.
— Christopher Paolini, Inheritance
I don't get it. I'm sexually attractive to a remarkable degree-""And humble.""It's not bragging if it's true. And I'm his-which means, this is in the bag. Or should be.
— Kresley Cole, Kiss of a Demon King
Confidence comes from what you know and not from you don't know.
— Abdulkadir Abdullahi Mohamed Mirre
Yes, I'm a man and everyone knows men are great hairy beasts scarcely tamed by civilization-Jermyn, Duke of Northcliff to Amy, Princess Beaumontaigne
— Christina Dodd, The Barefoot Princess
Helping another person will instantly shift your energy. As you go from being self-absorbed to focusing on others, miracles seem to happen. And incredible impressions are made.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Love is not only one of the greatest blessings in your personal life, but when it is extended professionally, the possibilities are endless.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
When you graciously accept something from someone else, you are giving to them in return. By accepting their gift, you're allowing them to act upon what is in their heart.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Begin asking how you may be of service and you will soon discover that the true gift is in your giving.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
When in doubt, give it out. Regardless of what is happening in your life, there is always someone else worse off that needs your help.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Love is the universal language that transcends countries, borders, barriers, and differences.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Doesn’t it feel great when someone does something nice for you? Especially when you’re not expecting it? The irony is that they are getting as much joy by giving as you are by receiving.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
It's simple. You enrich your life when you enrich the lives of others.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
You and I may have never met, but I already know so much of what you want: to be happy and feel valued. We all want love, connection, respect, confidence, health, vitality, passion, kindness, and success.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
You and I may have never met, but I already know much of what you want in your life: to be happy and feel valued. We all want love, connection, respect, confidence, health, vitality, passion, kindness, and success.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
15.	“We all want to be happy and feel valued. We want love, connection, respect, confidence, health, vitality, passion, kindness, and success. When you generously provide these emotions for others, you activate the law of attraction to magnetize the same experiences for you.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
We all want to be happy and feel valued. We want love, connection, respect, confidence, health, vitality, passion, kindness, and success. When you generously provide these emotions for others, you activate the law of attraction to magnetize the same experiences for you.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
For others to be generous it requires that a person accept their generosity for the cycle to be completed.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
When you come to life from a heart of service, you may be surprised by the blessings you will receive in return.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Many people have never discovered the power generated from a heart of service. They show up to life projecting a right of entitlement in which their needs are their first priority and they will do whatever it takes to forward their own agenda without any concern for how it impacts others. This behavior pushes people away, creates barriers to trust and communication, and leaves a bad impression.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
If you’re always taking, you will inevitably experience resistance and struggle. Without realizing it, you may be creating a firewall that is blocking you from receiving exactly the things you most desire.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
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.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Speakers, coaches, consultants, thought-leaders, experts, and authors who dedicate their professional lives for the love of humanity and the betterment of society are making a positive difference in the lives of millions. These messengers of hope make our entire world a better place through their love and generosity.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Love can extend far beyond the people whom we know and it makes us a part of something much greater than ourselves.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Passion gives you direction. It serves as an inner compass that links you to action.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
When you choose a career that is aligned with your passion, the work becomes irrelevant because anticipation and fulfillment can outweigh everything.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
When employees lack passion, it is nearly impossible to deliver excellent customer service. Doesn’t it make you less inclined to want to do business with them as well?
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
When an employee, a team, or a company is passionate about their products and services, I am more inclined to bring them my business. Aren’t you?
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
It can't be taught to all, but people who deliver exceptional work, merely by relaying their passion through what they say and do in the workplace, are priceless.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
When employees are motivated and love what they do you will see higher productivity, less turnover, healthier communication, increased loyalty, and a happier environment.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Put the right people in the right positions to ensure their personal strengths and talents are being utilized and appreciated.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
If you want to improve performance and productivity, set a vision that inspires and delights.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
I simply needed to excavate passion lost by being resilient, resolving the blockages, and healing. As soon as I did, the passion, and joy, burst forth.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Think about the things in life that elicit passion in you and make you happy.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Do you have a dream or desire that is burning a hole in your soul? Something that lights your fire and brings you simple pleasure?
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Passion is at the heart of your motivation. Let it fuel your spirit and feed your joy. It is your catalyst for courageous pursuits—and it will provide you the stamina to stick with it.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Love is one of our most profound emotions and enduring qualities for living a life that matters.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
This feeling of warm personal attachment and deep affection is what connects, unifies, and binds our humanity.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Approaching others with a loving heart enables you to be more caring, compassionate, and empathetic. What’s not to love about that?
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Lack of confidence in yourself,Can allow your enemies to hurt you easily.
— Nikita Dudani
Much to the confusion of small-minded people, confidence does not equate arrogance.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Who cares what insecure people think who are insanely jealous that you are OK with yourself?
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
He just wasn’t into flaunting his awesomeness, but sometimes a person’s awesomeness simply flaunts itself, even when you politely ask it not to.
— Sage Steadman, Ann, Not Annie
Your self-assurance scares me.’'That’s only because you don’t have any.
— Marianne Curley, Old Magic
Your environment is a social phenomenon that can bolster confidence in you to run your business
— Myra Yadav
Do not let your confidence or love be easily removed or frightened by the rage of a warrior
— Ronie Kendig, Crown of Souls
Philip looked at his own work. How could you tell whether there was anything in it or whether you were wasting your time? It was clear that the will to achieve could not help you and confidence in yourself meantnothing.
— W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
Don't do anything stupid, they said. Well, it's now or never, I suppose, and stupidity and confidence run a fine line.
— Rebecca Harris, Give Up the Ghost
It became so common to hear celebrities saying in flashy interviews: " I had nothing. I started from zero. I had a tough life". It became so common to read books, to watch news about heros, very poor people, that are not afraid to die for their belief.In both situations it can be about a calling, a destiny. But there is a huge courage you cannot pretend to not notice it. An immense difficult to understand courage.When you have riched the lowest level of living, when you have survived in miserable conditions, it is easier to follow your heart, your dreams, your belief.You know why?Because you have that confidence that you have nothing to lose if you have you.
— Dragotel Viorica
Would a bird build its nest if it did not have its instinct for confidence in the world?
— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
But they say that people who aren't confident in themselves tend to be more flashy
— Kanae Hazuki, Suki-tte Ii na yo, Volume 5
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.
— Wu Wei, I Ching Wisdom: More Guidance from the Book of Answers
I have, as it were, constructed a lay-figure for the purposes of a demonstration which I desired to be as rapid and as impressive as possible.
— Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
I just like how [glasses] look on me and how they make me feel more confident. Isn’t that the point of anything we wear, anyway?
— Tommy Tighe, The Catholic Hipster Handbook: Rediscovering Cool Saints, Forgotten Prayers, and Other Weird but Sacred Stuff
Ultimately, I think the #1 thing that draws me to someone is their sense of freedom. Freedom and confidence are two different things, in my book. Confidence is overrated — it can be faked, whereas freedom is fearlessness.
— Emily Weiss
What was it like to be so confident even in your failings that you weren't the least bit bothered when other people pointed them out? I was almost envious.
— Sarah Dessen, Once and for All
I had the luxury of knowing what I wanted to do. So I just sat on the bed and came up with a plan for myself:"I have to go to the Edinburgh Fringe. But I don't have the confidence to do a production there because I've never gone before, and I don't even know how to get there or what to do once I get there. So I will just act as if I do have the confidence to go to the Edinburgh Fringe. I'll just borrow confidence from a future version of myself. Once I've been to the Edinburgh Fringe and performed a show there, then I will have the confidence to go to the Edinburgh Fringe. I will go to the bank manager of confidence (in some part of my brain) and I will borrow that confidence from the future, and then I can wear it like a cloak, and I will talk to everyone with this confidence."It was out there as a concept, but it worked.
— Eddie Izzard, Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens
You aren’t jealous that Agatha gets a boy and a crown and a kingdom and everything else?” Hort pressed in disbelief. “You aren’t jealous that Agatha’s a queen?” He saw her stop at the gates, faced away as students streamed past. “A tiny bit, of course,” she said softly. “But then I remember . .  .” Sophie looked back, smiling bright as a diamond. “I’m me.
— Soman Chainani, The Last Ever After
The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
Bravery wasn’t in protecting myself from everything, it was in daring to trust, daring to love, daring to be me. Sometimes being brave meant letting go.
— Emory R. Frie, Heart of a Lion
Fear is a liar and a good one at that, Fear feeds on self doubt and insecurities both internal and external. Know this, optimism, faith, and resilience are like penicillin to fear if it has been allowed in. But the best course of action is to not feed it in the first place.
— Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army
To all my enemies, I will destroy you.
— Frankie Boyle
When you are feeling stressed, and you keep going over and over the same problem in your mind, with no solution, take action. Do anything to remove your energy from the issue. You will find that when you are proactive, your mind will become more clear, solutions will arise, and you will feel more self-confident. Free yourself from feeling like a victim and become victorious instead!
— Jenni Young
Who knows doesn’t know what the other person knows of them. Have confidence in you.
— Simon Mashalla
My Potentials are 600,000 More Than I Use Right Now_nickc
— nick catricala
I don't mind people talking about me behind my back. It means they know me, and I'm out in front.
— David Lucero, Who's Minding the Store?
People are way too optimistic about the power they assume they have got to control how they are being perceived. They don't realize that none of the armours they wear is free of holes!
— Lukhman Pambra
Knowledge gives you attitude and carriage which IS everything! A woman who knows and feels she is sexy projects sexy and classy. If you are uncertain it can show. Make a list of those things you feel uncertain about and go to work on getting the knowledge to cross them off your list
— JoAnna Nicholson
True ability is undisturbed by pretentious criticism.
— Joyce Rachelle
Sometimes all it takes is one person to speak their truth. Speak yours.
— Catherine Louise Birmingham
Lack of independent thinking is lacking in confidence.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone's Playbook to Unlock Creativity
Confidence, even when under pressure, has a way of turning an impossible situation into just another challenge to be met.
— David Amerland, The Sniper Mind: Eliminate Fear, Deal with Uncertainty, and Make Better Decisions
Perfection is the enemy of authenticity.
— Lisa Braithwaite, Presenting for Humans: Insights for Speakers on Ditching Perfection and Creating Connection
When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.
— Joe Namath
We're all a beautiful, wonderful work in progress....Embrace the process!
— Nanette Mathews
Be confident but with a leashed ego.
— Ben Tolosa, Masterplan Your Success
Confidence is simply knowing what you’re able to do.
— Lolly Daskal
sometimes being tall helps you build self confidence. But knowing that you are small makes you unpredictable thus small things have bigger impact to big things.
— Jinnul Jr.
Who can see twenty-five years into the future?” she had asked. “Your guess is as good as theirs. Confidence is everything.
— John Perkins, The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
The greatest gift a parent can give a child is self-confidence.
— Stewart Stafford
Often, we find ourselves wedged in the middle of a draining conversation. We might desperately want to dislodge ourselves from the interaction, but instead we stay in receiving mode, absorbing their words like a slow-acting poison.
— Michaela Chung, The Irresistible Introvert: Harness the Power of Quiet Charisma in a Loud World
We don't need to be in a designated role to take ownership of our environment. We can simply decide that we will be the giver, the helper, or the greeter wherever we are. We can even make a little game of it. We can tell ourselves: Today, I'm going to make at least three new people feel welcome. Or we can say: At this party, I'm going to gift two people a genuine compliment.
— Michaela Chung, The Irresistible Introvert: Harness the Power of Quiet Charisma in a Loud World
In their huge bedroom that night, Tyr said to Thor, "I hope you know what you are doing.""Of course I do," said Thor. But he didn't. He was just doing whatever he felt like doing. That was what Thor did best.
— Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology
Self-confidence appear your attitude, so be confident
— Noor-us-Sahar
I have no confidence in USA law enforcement.
— Steven Magee
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.
— Victoria Helen Stone, Evelyn, After
To be a mirror of God’s love is to show Jesus by one’s way of living
— Sunday Adelaja
The stories I tell myself about myself are contexts for what I believe is possible. These stories affect not only my attitudes about myself and others, but affect my behavior in what could become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
— Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
The main obstacle to success he soon discovered to be Letty's exceeding distrust of herself. I would not be mistaken to mean that she had too little confidence in herself; of that no one can have too little. Self-distrust will only retard, while self-confidence will betray. The man ignorant in these things will answer me, "But you must have one or the other." "You must have neither," I reply. "You must follow the truth, and, in that pursuit, the less one thinks about himself, the pursuer, the better. Let him so hunger and thirst after the truth that the dim vision of it occupies all his being, and leaves no time to think of his hunger and his thirst. Self-forgetfulness in the reaching out after that which is essential to us is the healthiest of mental conditions. One has to look to his way, to his deeds, to his conduct--not to himself. In such losing of the false, or merely reflected, we find the true self. There is no harm in being stupid, so long as a man does not think himself clever; no good in being clever, if a man thinks himself so, for that is a short way to the worst stupidity. If you think yourself clever, set yourself to do something; then you will have a chance of humiliation. With good faculties, and fine instincts, Letty was always thinking she must be wrong, just because it was she was in it--a lovely fault, no doubt, but a fault greatly impeditive to progress, and tormenting to a teacher.
— George MacDonald, Mary Marston
Confidence is armor you cannot buy.
— Jeffrey Fry
Be honest with who you are, what you want and how you want to be treated. Boundaries only scare off the people that were not meant to be in your life.
— Shannon L. Alder
It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
It was evident that he had nothing around him but the simplest necessaries, for everything that I remarked upon turned out to have been sent in on my account....Yet, having already made his fortune in his own mind, he was so unassuming with it that I felt quite grateful to him for not being puffed up.
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Confidence is not posting endless selfies, or repeatedly protesting how happy or in love we are, it’s a subtle yet noticeable sheen that emanates from our being - our eyes, our words, our body language.
— Sam Owen, 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
God may create us but we Define
— shashidhar sa
Ciro carried himself like a general in full regalia, when in fact he wore secondhand clothes from the donation bin.
— Adriana Trigiani, The Shoemaker's Wife
The Greatest Enemy of Confidence is Inexperience
— Gun Gun Febrianza
wasn’t no bit of me willing to ride shotgun to my own funeral.
— J.D.  Jordan, Calamity: Being an Account of Calamity Jane and Her Gunslinging Green Man
Smile like you are a winner and you will win over people around you. Smile.
— Janna Cachola
It's true, look at Erik Johnson on the dance floor. Seriously-look at him. Six feet tall, one hundred eighty pounds, all of which can be converted by the right clothes and the right song into a mass of headless joy. (the right hair helps, too). He treats his body like it's made of fireworks, each one timed to the beat. Is he dancing alone or dancing with everyone? here is the secret: it doesn't matter. he travelled for two hours to get to the city, and when it's all over, it will take him over two hours to get home. But it's worth it. Freedom isn't just about voting and marrying and kissing on the street, although all of these things are important. Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.
— David Levithan
If you remain in a positive spiral, you will always learn something new to reach your goals.
— MR.Smith
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.
— J.D.  Jordan, Calamity: Being an Account of Calamity Jane and Her Gunslinging Green Man
With confidence, you have won before you have started.
— Marcus Garvey
Whatever the depth of our darkness, God navigated it eons before it was dark. And whatever the duration of our nights, God was there long before it ever turned to night. Therefore, despite our frequent feelings to the contrary, there is no place we might be where God was not lovingly waiting for us an eternity before we got there.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Be humble in your confidence yet courageous in your character.
— Melanie Koulouris
Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.
— Nicole Scherzinger
Ain’t no good ever comes of it, if you ain’t steering yourself.
— J.D.  Jordan, Calamity: Being an Account of Calamity Jane and Her Gunslinging Green Man
What you saw is what I showed you. What you are seeing is what I'm showing you. What you are going to see, you can't even imagine the future me.
— Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
With God, being lost is nothing more than an idea that never has and never will be anything more than an idea.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Be selfish enough to have self love, self worth and self respect.
— Robin Dabhi
The Australian is forcefully loquacious, until the moment of expressing any emotion. He is aggressively committed to equality and equal-opportunity for all men, except for black Australians. He has high assurance in anything he does combined with a gnawing lack of confidence in anything he thinks.
— Robin Boyd, The Australian Ugliness
He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.
— William Congreve
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Was like the Green Man said, some you got to put to the bullet. Some to the tongue. Often the latter, with me. But some, you just got to put behind you.
— J.D.  Jordan, Calamity: Being an Account of Calamity Jane and Her Gunslinging Green Man
Was still between Martha and Jane, then, I was. Between the girl I was and who I wanted to be.
— J.D.  Jordan, Calamity: Being an Account of Calamity Jane and Her Gunslinging Green Man
The challenge is never based on the size of the obstacle that stands before me. Rather, it is dictated by the degree of faith that rests within me.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The umbrella won't stop the rain, but it will help you to get out during rainfall. As well as confidence is not going to guarantee your success, but it will give you the opportunity to achieve it...
— Eyden I., My Precious
I don't want to grow old thinking ''what if I had done...''. I avoid the ''should have's'' and take ACTION.
— Rachel Smets, Awaken Your Confidence: 15 People Share Their Journey To Success
I seem to have to lost confidence in just about everything else. I've come to believe that only a very, very few matters in the world can ever be trusted to make sense.
— Richard Yates, Cold Spring Harbor
You are quite wrong about him," Felix had said. "He has not been atan English school, or English university, and therefore is not like other young men that you know; but he is, I think, well educated and clever. As for conceit, what man will do any good who is notconceited? Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinionof himself.""All the same, my dear fellow, I do not like Lucius Mason.
— Anthony Trollope, Orley Farm
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.
— Pega Rose, The Someday List
I don't have to justify its awesomeness/activeness/healthiness/usefulness to anyone, because it is MINE. Not yours.
— Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
I desperately want to help, but the truth is, I don't know. I used to hate myself; eventually, I didn't anymore. I used to be shy; eventually, I made my living by talking too much.
— Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.
— Blake Lively
Negativity pierces determination like rust. Stay coated with faith and confidence.
— Vikrmn, 10 Golden Steps of Life
Throughout my career I’ve lived in constant fear that I wouldn’t be good enough, that I’d have nothing to say, that I’d be laughed at, humiliated—and I’m old enough to know that fear will follow me to the very last word I’ll ever write. As for now, I feel the first itch of the novel I’m supposed to write—the grain of sand that irritates the soft tissues of the oyster. The beginning of the world as I don’t quite know it. But I trust I’ll begin to know it soon.
— Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
If you are gonna wear it, you need to own it.
— Kelly St. Clare, Fantasy of Flight
The more I thought about the reasons behind my insecurities, the more I realized that my issues with my appearance had nothing to do with reality. I didn’t feel fat because I was sluggish or unable to move my body with ease. I felt fat because I didn’t fit the mold of what society has taught me a woman should looklike.
— Jenn Sadai, Cottage Cheese Thighs
Be Yourself. An original is worth more than a copy
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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.
— Emma Watson
It takes faith to hopelessly pursue hope.
— Auliq-Ice
Once they got into the idea of seeing directly for themselves they also saw there was no limit to the amount they could say. It was a confidence building assignment too, because what they wrote, even though seemingly trivial, was nevertheless their own thing, not a mimicking of someone else’s.
— Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.
— Louis Kronenberger
Don't stand in the way of your own light. Let yourself shine as you were meant to shine, for only you can.
— Karlyle Tomms
I do not care what I labeled, as long as I am heard.
— Hannah Sawyerr
An insecure woman chases love
—  a confident woman invites a man to find her.
[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.
— Iain M. Banks
Bullies were only triumphant when they made other people feel smaller than they themselves felt.
— Jessica Haight and Stephanie Robinson
Choosing to accept yourself is a political act. An act of liberation.
— Francesca Martínez, What the **** is Normal?!
Desperation is not an evidence of hard work, it's a sign of lack of faith
— Constance Friday
And suddenly, lying in bed, I became aware of every inch of my body and I apologised to it, quietly. I apologised for bring so ungrateful for so long. Then I thanked my arms, hands and fingers for always trying so hard. I thanked my legs and feet for holding me up all the time. I thanked my brain for working so amazingly well and conjuring up thoughts and dreams and sentences and images and crazy poems. And I thanked all my organs for working together and giving me life. It had taken four and a half billion years for me to be here. Right now. In this universe. And in that moment, I felt totally overwhelmed at being alive. There could be nothing but there was everything. I didn't want to waste a single second more worrying about trivialities. Worrying that I'd never match up to an ideal that didn't even exist. Nobody is normal. We are all different. I had to make sure that every moment I had left on this planet counted.
— Francesca Martínez
The illusion of confidence is far more important than actually possessing the feeling.
— Aprilynne Pike, Glitter
Some will wear masks their entire life because they care about what other people think, while others remove the mask to be who they truly are. The difference between the two is not the ability to trust others, but to trust in God.
— Shannon L. Alder
Who said you weren't good enough? If it was you then pack up that thought and send it to Mars. If it wasn't you then pack up that thought and send it back to that person.
— Diana Jaber
Light fell, and so did my confidence.
— Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy
In life we have our trophy people. These are the ones we work hard for, we are proud of. We want to show them off to our family, our friends, we want them on our arm at company functions. We take pictures with them to let everyone know we feel like a winner and we are happy.Then you have your participation ribbons, the ribbons you get just for simply showing up. You didn't have to earn it, it was just given to you. These things usually end up in a drawer somewhere, maybe you pick them up again when you are bored and say "that was a fun night, I wonder if they are still handing out these things?" but you don't tell people about it, nothing to be proud of.
— Brittany Williams
Don’t worry about a thing,” Tom said.But I worried about all the things.
— Melody J. Bremen, Room 42
Don't beg for approval or expect respect. Respect comes from within and your choice to allow people to take it from you, by how you teach them to treat you.
— Shannon L. Alder
Empowered Women 101: A confident woman knows that forgiving is important, but sticking around for constant abuse isn't being confident; it is called being a doormat.
— Shannon L. Alder
The loss of a reliance on others often helpfully forces a more sophisticated rumination that enables the opening of previously unknown avenues.
— Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
Always trust yerself, lass. There's not a soul in this world that has a heart like yers. Plenty o' smart people here, aye, but logic ain't always the best way to a decision. Can ye remember that? -Alban Dewberry
— E.S. Lowell, The Last Fairy Tale
There is no limitation to what you can achieve, if you can believe.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you really want to talk to the big boss now, make sure you leave your balls here with me, for he likes no balls on people he is talking to.
— Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
If you have to convince someone that you are their soulmate then you didn't realize the thousand other guys applying for the job.
— Shannon L. Alder
I’m so used to planning for guys, dressing and undressing for them and trying to morph myself into their dream girl. I’m so used to it that I don’t really know where that girl ends and the real me begins. I suppose what it comes down to is confidence. I’m confident in that girl, the one who emerges from my walk-in wearing lingerie when I’m done getting ready. But at Faye’s house, I’m not going to be that girl. I’m going to be me. Whoever that is anymore.
— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, Firsts
Now you are laughing aren't you?? You just came from holiday (AS for me I don't really give a shit from holiday, from walk with friends or whatever..)You are thinking about the one fat guy and you think that you are perfect. - If you are perfect you won't be here transcend people don't have what to achieve they know and they will continue to know everything, it's useless!You have health problems, am I right?You have some buds on places which nobody wants to talk, you think that you are a bigger as a personality - but you smoke (Don't you?? You try to stop it, but again the cigarettes say "Smoke one you will be better, smoke another one you will go to heaven..." - this goes to endless does it??You drink Alcohol - don't ya?I don't have words take a look at yourself you drink for what??? For confidence... oh my god you are fuck fagot aren't you??You smoke, but why I know that chimneys smoke, but you?? Are you chimney, it's a joke! :D :D
— Deyth Banger
Empowered Women 101: Confident women know the difference between being a meal ticket and being the meal.
— Shannon L. Alder
Confidence is not "They will like me". Confidence is "I’ll be fine even if they don’t
— Keith Blakemore-Noble
Winston Churchill once said "Never Give Up", little pause..... "Never Give Up" and again pause.... "Never Give Up". This 9 Words, said about success (Bob Proctor from Confidence!)
— Deyth Banger
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
— Gore Vidal
The culture around us knows what it means when they see a church in perpetual bluster and outrage. They know that we are scared.
— Russell D. Moore, Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel
And one of the reasons why he likes her is because she’s so different from him. She’s as big as four-fifths of five-eighths of fuck all, but she takes no bullshit from anyone. She even talks back to the Sarge, which is like watching a mouse bark at a pitbull.
— M.R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts
Yup! I'll live stupid! Because I know what I do, and what we as a species do will one day come together and make a difference. We matter!
— Charles   Lee, The Way To Dawn: Apocryphal
And all that time I was lying to my support group. I told the ladies, "Sure! I'm writing!" when I wasn't. Yes, I could have filled all those newfound minutes with actual work, but I had no confidence in myself. I was a fraud. Who was I to pick up a pen and expect anything good to come out of it? I expected perfection as soon as the pencil hit the paper, and since that's impossible, I couldn't get myself to start. Then I felt guilty about not starting, which made me want to start even less. And with no game to bury the feelings, I got very depressed. No wonder I didn't book any acting jobs in the last half of 2006. No one wanted to hire a clinically depressed person to sell snack foods.
— Felicia Day, You're Never Weird on the Internet
If you believe in your abilities, it will amaze you what you can accomplish.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Alas, my lord, your wisdom is consumed in confidence.
— William Shakespeare
True self confidence happens when you stop blaming others for not seeing what you love about yourself. Not everyone has the same list of needs.
— Shannon L. Alder
10 Reasons Why Authentic People Are Successful: 1. They live fearlessly on the road less traveled.2. They communicate from a place of love.3. They use their intuition.4. They quickly create boundaries.5. They love alone time.6. They trust the process of life.7. They see through the eyes of love.8. They bring out the best in others.9. They love deep conversations.10. They're confident
— Maria Flynn
Life is like theatre. Each new day is a new scene with new acts and roles to portray. The sets always change. You come across new dialogue and lines to exchange between others. Scripts are improvised. But the beauty in it is that everyday, you are constantly learning who you are and how others around you are. Express yourself and empathize. It's okay to wear a mask every now and then but remember that you'll eventually meet fellow thespians who will find a way to break down your walls and barriers. Remember another thing: this isn't a dress rehearsal. And God is your ultimate Director. Let Him write your script and call the cuts. Allow Him to provide you with the applause that truly matters. Let Him open up your heart to real self discovery. He is the best playwright that never dies. He lives. And so do you when you learn to let go and step on the stage of life.
— Melody Joy
Being confident simply means believing that you have what it takes to do the job.
— Josh Shipp, The Teen's Guide to World Domination: Advice on Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Awesomeness
Never speak unless you can improve upon the stupidness of people's silence.
— Shannon L. Alder
~Have NO fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with YOU, therefore NO harm can befall YOU; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence~
— John Paul II
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?
— Ronda Rousey, My Fight / Your Fight
They looked more like day laborers than seamen.
— Erik Larson, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Never allow anyone embarrass you without your consent.
— Maggy Mae, Getting Away With It
This is your life, not someone else's. It is your own feeling of what is important, not what people will say. Sooner or later, you are bound to discover that you cannot please all of the people around you all of the time. Some of t hem will attribute to you motives you never dreamed of. Some of them will misinterpret your words and actions, making them completely alien to you. So you had better learn fairly early that you must not expect to have everyone understand what you say and what you do.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
— Mindy Kaling, Why Not Me?
I should pursue only those habits that would make me feel freer and stronger.
— Gretchen Rubin, Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives
Feeling LOW? Go on mountains.
— Prajakta Mhadnak
Yeah, yeah, success is a ladder, a marathon instead of a sprint and all that crap. Everyone can TELL you stuff like that, but you really have to understand advice in relation to YOURSELF, or it's all just nice intellectual theory.
— Felicia Day, You're Never Weird on the Internet
As we age, we feel less like leaves and more like trees. We have roots that ground us and sturdy trunks that may sway, but don't break, in the wind.
— Meg Jay, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now
Never forget the first three letters of confidence.
— Anthony Marra, The Tsar of Love and Techno
Rule 1: The actions of confidence come first
—  the feelings of confidence come later.
That, my dear Liv, was confidence. Talk to someone. Make jokes with them. Seem interested in what they are saying even if they're dull as mud.” He shrugged. “Anyone... anyone at all, can be glamoured if you know how.
— Danika Stone, All the Feels
You have to let people see what you wrote. It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated.
— Tina Fey
Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
— Paul Silway, Heaven I - Paradise: The City and Throne
A person who is confident and capablewill never feel insecure.
— Abhishek Ratna, No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!
Some women are built by the fire. Yet, there are some that are the FIRE!
— Shannon L. Alder
When you don't know yourself, who you are and what you want, you just become a product of your environment - a leaf that gets blown each and every way until it just lands, in a big pile of mud, and gets stuck.
— Evan Sutter, Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World
You cannot become good enough for your own approval just like you can't become good enough to have hair. You cannot earn your own self-acceptance just like you can't earn your own ears. You can't become what you are. Stop looking out there. Look in the mirror. You're already everything you've ever wanted to be.
— Vironika Tugaleva
You have to make your own choices in life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
When it comes to your looks, the only option in this world that matters is yours.
— Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, Fugly
Self respect by definition is a confidence and pride in feeling that you are behaving in an honorable and dignified manner. -Respect yourself by respecting others.
— Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
Self respect by definition is a confidence and pride in knowing that your behaviour is both honorable and dignified. -Respect yourself by respecting others.
— Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
Self respect by definition is a confidence and pride in knowing that your behaviour is both honorable and dignified. Therefore when you harass or vilify another person, you not only disrespect them, but you also. -Respect yourself by respecting others.
— Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women