Quotes about self-confidence

When you feel irresistable, you're hard to resist.

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

Many people wonder where my secret lies,

I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model size.

When I try to show them they think I'm telling lies.

I say, it's in the reach of my arms,

the span of my hips,

the stride of my step,

the curl of my lips I'm Woman,

Phenominally .

I walk in a room just as cool as you please,

And to a man the fellows stand,

or fall down on their knees.

And then they swarm around me; a hive of honey bees.

I say,

oh it's the fire in my eyes,

the flash of my teeth,

the swing in my waist,

the joy in my feet.

Men themselves have wondered what they see in me.

They try so much but they can't touch my inner mystery.

When I try to show them they say they still can't see.

I say oh, it's in the arch of my back.

And now you understand just why my head's not bowed.

I don't shout or jump about,

or have to talk too loud.

When you see me walking out it ought to make you proud.

I say it's in the click of my heels.

The bend of my hair.

The palm of my hands.

The need for my care,

because I'm a woman.

Phenomenally.

Phenomenal Woman.

That's my mother,

and all your mothers.

And then my grandmothers.

And all your grandmothers.

And my great grandmothers,

And all your great grandmothers.

And my great great great,

And all your great great...

And all you women here,

And me.

Perhaps you mistake assurance for insolence…Agreed, the qualities sometimes converge.

All through the day I'm so confident. That's why I'm such a good salesman, you know? I have confidence, and I look like I have confidence, and that gives other people confidence.

He exuded confidence without ever looking as if he wanted to make sure everyone else knew how confident he was.

Life for both sexes — and I looked at them, shouldering their way along the pavement — is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigantic courage and strength. More than anything, perhaps, creatures of illusion as we are, it calls for confidence in oneself. Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to one self. By feeling that one has some innate superiority — it may be wealth, or rank, a straight nose, or the portrait of a grandfather by Romney — for there is no end to the pathetic devices of the human imagination — over other people.

"Audacity, always audacity" — soundest principle of strategy. In practicing medicine I learned that when you are most at loss is the time when you must appear confident. In law I had learned that, when your case seems hopeless, you must impress the jury with your relaxed certainty.

As I shall describe, the prospects for finding such a theory seem to be much better now because we know so much more about the universe. But we must beware of overconfidence - we have had false dawns before! At the beginning of this century, for example, it was thought that everything could be explained in terms of the properties of continuous matter, such as elasticity and heat conduction. The discovery of atomic structure and the uncertainty principle put an emphatic end to that. Then again, in 1928, physicist and Nobel Prize winner Max Born told a group of visitors to Gottingen University, "Physics, as we know it, will be over in six months." His confidence was based on the recent discovery by Dirac of the equation that governed the electron. It was thought that a similar equation would govern the proton, which was the only other particle known at the time, and that would be the end of theoretical physics. However, the discovery of the neutron and of nuclear forces knocked that one on the head too. Having said this, I still believe there are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature.

Nourish what makes you feel confident, connected, contented. Opportunity will rise to meet you.

Keep this truth ever before you—Ignorance never did any one any harm, error alone is fatal, and we do not lose our way through ignorance but through self-confidence.