Confidence Quotes - Page 19

What immense satisfaction it must be to fashion a story like [Maupassant's]! One must say 'fashion' because it is not merely writing, but massing and cutting away like a sculptor, chiseling lean and clear. And to put one's work confidently in the crucible of Time; to know that in six perfect pages is the finest form of one's idea: This satisfaction is the only true reward of the artist, and this his highest possible joy on Earth.

Patricia Highsmith

I always wake up early in a strange bed. I looked at Bertrand, I wonder about him. There was a sort of easy grace in whatever he did, He didn't talk much. I watched this boy sleeping beside me. God, was he tall, and handsome. I was surprised, during the night, when he's told me he was only nineteen. I never would have imagined this kind of cool confidence could come so early to a person. But nineteen, after all, wasn't so far off. I remembered how stupid I was in my relations with other people then.

Michèle Bernstein

It's so screwed up, the standards...You should like it, but you shouldn't like it too much or talk about how much you like it. You should do it, but you shouldn't do it with too many people or talk about how much you're doing it. It's like there are so many rules, but none of them make sense.

One-night stands were invented to free men from worrying about the size of their penis. And to free women from worrying about the size of their stretch marks.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I hate society’s notion that there is something wrong with sex. Something wrong with a woman who loves sex.

Alessandra Torre

To try is to invite uncertainty. Where confidence goes, success usually follows.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

If you have confidence, if you believe in yourself, you can go anywhere.

Katie Kacvinsky

Happily Single is permission to CHOOSE your life rather than having it handed to you, and it’s living life on your own terms instead of those that are expected of you.

Here’s a little secret that’s going to save you a LOT of unnecessary grief in life. Are you ready? Your worth is not tied to any person.

It takes guts and bravery and heart to walk a mile in a single girl’s shoes. And sometimes a fabulous pedicure.

That’s the thing about fear. It can only hang around until faith enters the room, then it’s forced to flee.

When you are your own best friend, you don’t endlessly seek out relationships, friendships, and validation from the wrong sources because you realize that the only approval and validation you need is your own.

Next time you hit a speed bump otherwise known as the age-old question “Why are you still single?” look ’em in the eye and say: “Because I’m too fabulous to settle.

A girl who truly knows herself is a girl that everybody else wants to know.

You’ve gotta love yourself enough to look INSIDE you & not BESIDE you for your joy, confidence, & self worth.

Stand strong in your worth and don't let anyone talk you out of it.

You’re beautiful, just the way you are. Shine on. And dare anyone to turn off the lights.

You don't have to knock anyone off their game to win yours. It doesn’t build you up to tear others down.

Look forward with confidence and backwards with attitude.

Be the great person you were always meant to be.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

Nurturing self-confidence is a daily endeavour.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Believe, believe and it shall be!

Lailah Gifty Akita

To do his best, one needs a confidence that says, "I can do anything, and if I can't do it, I know how to get help.

Self-determination is self-reliance.

Lailah Gifty Akita

With patient and perseverance, the mountain is conquered.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Never doubt who you are!

Lailah Gifty Akita

Nothing can replace confidence and single-minded pursuit of purpose.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You are God’s special possession.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not waste your time and life, searching for a job. Utilize your special skills to begin your own work.

Lailah Gifty Akita

May you climb higher heights.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Success requires discipline, dedication and diligence to the very end.

Lailah Gifty Akita

With self-confidence and self-commitment, you will realise your dream.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You are a great soul with a great spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Compare yourself only with the word of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Prophesy positive words into your life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If they say, it can’t be done, Ask, ‘Why not?’ It can be done. It will be done!

Lailah Gifty Akita

Stand tall like a tower of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

To try is to accept the possibility of failure. Simply do.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

Positive mindset leads to positive self esteem.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The key to achieving desired results and gaining freedom from unwanted feelings lies within you.

No truly happy person feels the need to stand in front of a mirror and recite that she's happy. She just is.

When we try to find the good in ourselves and others, we pull those good traits up out of hiding and keep them alive, verses pulling out our bad qualities.

Emilyann Girdner

Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them.

Life is like butter - when things cool down it can be reshaped

The definition of a professional is one who does a job well even when they don't like it.

One concrete way in which we all landscape our sanity is by having our experience of reality confirmed by others. When our experience of reality is disconfirmed by others, our confidence in our own sanity can be undermined. (page 125, Chapter 9, Graeme Galton)

At what point do you no longer need other people to support the decisions you’ve made about your own reality?

Believe is confident hope.Hope is faith.Faith is timeless possibility.Possibility is spiritual.Spiritual is divine

Lailah Gifty Akita

Nobody knows what it is like to be you, how can they? Choose your thoughts, words and actions and enjoy what is your life.

How are you feeling, man?" he asks me."Great," I tell him, and it is purely the truth. Doves clatter up out of a bare tree and turn at the same instant, transforming themselves from steel to silver in the snow-blown light. I know at that moment that the drug is working. Everything before me has become suddenly, radiantly itself. How could Carlton have known this was about to happen? "Oh," I whisper. His hand settles on my shoulder."Stay loose, Frisco," he says. "There's not a thing in this pretty world to be afraid of. I'm here."I am not afraid. I am astonished. I had not realized until this moment how real everything is. A twig lies on the marble at my feet, bearing a cluster of hard brown berries. The broken-off end is raw, white, fleshly. Trees are alive."I'm here," Carlton says again, and he is.

Michael Cunningham

If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.

You are an atheist if you do not believe in yourself

Swaraj Priyadarshi

Passion is that drive, that self-confidence, that enthusiasm that makes one to resist every obstacle that attempts to stop him from attaining his ultimate status in life and guides him to keep trying till the harvest time is due.

Israelmore Ayivor

Refuse to live a settle for it life.

Karen Salmansohn

Begin to pursue your dreams.

Lailah Gifty Akita

When your passion is aligned with your purpose, you are unstoppable! It is in that zone of high octane congruence that you are turned on and "cooking with gas.

Passionate people are great about discovering what lights their fire and going for it. They might be encouraged by others who share their passion, but they don’t rely on others to tell them what they need to do or how they need to do it.

Desire. Enthusiasm. Purpose. Pleasure. Delight. Peace. Power. However you define passion, it is at the heart of your motivation.

Feeling passion fuels your spirit and feeds your joy.

Passion is a catalyst for action and provides you with the emotional stamina to stick with it, regardless of the obstacles.

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