Self Confident Quotes - Page 3

• My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.

  Alastair Campbell

  Self, Males, Alpha Male

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• At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?

  Jules Feiffer

  Wise, Confused, Stupid

  "Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History, Second Edition". Book edited by William H. McNeill, Jerry Bentley and David Christian, April 30, 2010.

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• Women, on average, tend to be more aware of their emotions, show more empathy, and are more adept interpersonally. Men on the other hand, are more self-confident and optimistic, adapt more easily, and handle stress better.

  Daniel Goleman

  Stress, Optimistic, Men

  Daniel Goleman (2011). “Working With Emotional Intelligence”, p.7, Bantam

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• I'm really very self-confident when it comes to my work. When I take on a project, I believe in it 100%. I really put my soul into it. I'd die for it. That's how I am.

  Michael Jackson

  Believe, Hard Work, Self

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Apr 17, 2012

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• I came to realize that I was always looking for myself in the women I loved. I looked at their lovely, clean faces, and saw myself reflected in them. They, on the other hand, looked at me and saw the dirt on my face and, however intelligent and self confident they were, they ended up seeing themselves reflected in me and thinking that they were worse than they were. Please don't let that happen to you.

  Paulo Coelho

  Intelligent, Thinking, Self

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• ...Emma Morley wasn't such a paragon either: pretentious, petulant, lazy, speechifying, judgmental. Self-pitying, self righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she had always needed the most.

  David Nicholls

  Self, Lazy, Important

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• Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.

  Sarah Dessen

  Self, Brave, World

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• Everyone thinks you're so strong and self-confident, but inside you're a frightened child, waiting to suffer betrayal again from those who should love you most.

  Christina Dodd

  Strong, Children, Betrayal

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• I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me.

  Hugo Weaving

  Thinking, Self, Today

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• I would argue that we have a generation of young people, particularly minorities, who are no longer putting up with the kinds of things their parents put up with. They're much more self-confident. It's no longer acceptable to make fun of people because of race or sex. But it has always been present in American society.

  Donna Shalala

  Sex, Fun, Race

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• Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Growing Up, Hero

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Writing, Thinking, Self

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• Even the most self-confident people, at one point of their lives, felt like outsiders or felt like they weren't being heard or seen or witnessed in some way.

  Steve Carell

  Self, People, Way

  "Steve Carell Talks DESPICABLE ME 2, the Evolution of the Character, Being Gru on ELLEN, Lying About His Appearance on THE OFFICE Finale, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 23, 2013.

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• Don't be proud of what you know, and don't be self-confident if you are learned. Be open to advice from the unlearned as well as from the learned. Art knows no limit, and the artists will never achieve perfection.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Art, Self, Perfection

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• I just thought I‘d never look good in what everybody else wore. So there’s no point trying. You just have to do what suits you, and it doesn’t matter if you don’t look like everybody else. Be you. That’s our gift and we’ve got to celebrate that, but it does take ages. I was wracked with self-doubt for years. I get spasms of it even now – I’m not indelibly self-confident.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Suits You, Self, Years

  Interview with Tom Mottram, www.stylist.co.uk.

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• To the degree I was too brash, Too self-confident or too pushy, I apologize.

  Newt Gingrich

  Self, Degrees, Apologizing

  "What does Newt's past say about his future?". www.nbcnews.com. December 06, 2011.

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• The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident ... Hitler was afraid.

  Bill Crawford

  Jesus, Self Confidence, Simple

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• Self-confidence is not pride. Just the contrary: only a person or a nation that is self-confident, in the best sense of the word, is capable of listening to others, accepting them as equals, forgiving its enemies and regretting its own guilt.

  Vaclav Havel

  Regret, Self Confidence, Pride

  New Year's Address to the Nation, Prague, January 01, 1990.

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• The great background question about the Labour governments of the sixties is whether with a stronger leader they could have gripped the country's big problems and dealt with them. How did it happen that a cabinet of such brilliant, such clever and self-confident people achieved so little? In part, it was the effect of the whirling court politics demonstrated by 'In Place of Strife'.

  Andrew Marr

  Country, Clever, Government

  Andrew Marr (2009). “A History of Modern Britain”, p.268, Pan Macmillan

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• I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26.

  Jimmy Carr

  Christian, Sex, Self

  "What I know about women". Interview with Jon Bennett, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2008.

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• The truly wise are content to be last. They are, therefore, first. They are indifferent to themselves. They are, therefore self-confident.

  Laozi

  Confidence, Wise, Self

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• I'm a lot more self-confident than I used to be. To some extent I owe that to my children and my husband.

  Claudia Schiffer

  Husband, Children, Self

  "Claudia Schiffer Reaches Kid Limit" (from the National Ledger),

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• Modesty is related to diffidence, diffidence is related to shyness, Shyness is a synonym for timidity, timidity is a characteristic of the meek, the meek do not inherit the Earth, they serve those who are self confident and self assertive.

  Dean Koontz

  Self, Earth, Modesty

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• Justice is always naive and self-confident; believing that it will immediately win once recognized. That is the reason why the forces of Justice are so poorly organized. On the other hand, the Evil is cynic, sly and fantastically organized. It never ever has the illusion of the ability to stand on its own feet and to win in a fair competition. That is why it is ready to use any kind of means without hesitation. And of course it does - under the banners of the most noble ideas.

  Vladimir Bukovsky

  Believe, Mean, Winning

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• If we are safe today, it is because America has stood with us. If we are to remain safe tomorrow, it will be because America remains powerful and self-confident. When, therefore, the Americans face difficulties, we need to say to them more clearly: We are with you.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Powerful, War, Self

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