Quotes about Confidence

Cecelia, as with every look and gesture she let us know, was entirely at ease only in the company of her equals—a company that included, besides herself, only her sister. And of course Cecelia held some secret doubts about herself; you can't dislike nearly everybody and be quite certain that you have exempted yourself.

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.

I can stand on my own feet; I don't need any man's mahogany desk to prop me up

that adult trait of being convinced of anything by an assumption of silent superiority

That was the voice of one who knew his own mind.

so I stand here without further deprecatory words.

Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.

Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.