confidence

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

You can't make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence.

Please do make your decisions in life and feel confident that they are right.However, if fate is involved, feel just as confident even if they aren__.

I know that mirrors give us a false sense of confidence._ I continued. __he reflection that we see everyday has nothing to do with how others see us. The glass lies.

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

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

Her grandmother had once told her that one of life's best lessons was not being afraid to look foolish -- to just ask the question.

It does, Tennyson, because there__ a fine line between confidence and arrogance. There__ a fine line between being assertive and being a bully. And you__e on the wrong side of both lines.

Don't overestimate everyone else and underestimate yourself

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.

If You believe in yourself you can reach everything you want.

My optimism and confidence come not from feeling I'm luckier than other mortals, and they sure don't come from visualizing victory. They're the result of a lifetime spent visualizing defeat and figuring out how to prevent it. Like most astronauts, I'm pretty sure that I can deal with what life throws at me because I've thought about what to do if things go wrong, as well as right. That's the power of negative thinking.

Be you, love you. All ways, always.

We don__ need self-confidence we need God-confidence

There had been a time when I owned my life and now I felt like I was coming around to myself again. It's like I've finally discovered bones in myself I never knew I had. I discovered that it takes bravery to be one's self. I now know that the only thing I needed to be afraid of was of not finding my true self and having the courage to be me.

There is nothing left but the attempt and not trying is the same as failing.

He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my thick bangs in need of a trim. They are still the pictures of myself I like best, for they convey that confidence of youth I no longer possess, especially in front of a camera.

He had the charm of all people who believe implicitly in themselves, that of integration.