A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

The best fashion advice I’d say would be just to do what makes you comfortable and what makes you feel cute, and that’s how you’re gonna look your best ‚cause when you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.

My fat never made me less money.

You never know with these things when you’re trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

I like to feel blonde all over.

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 lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

There’s a reason that I have confidence out there, and it’s about how I prepare for games and for series and seasons and whatnot, so we’ve got to stick with that kind of thought process.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It’s always sexy, and it’s always with the same result: making women look fantastic.

I think style is being so comfortable and confident in what you’re wearing. That’s what style is, ‚cause everybody’s got different style.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.

I’m ugly.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.

Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That’s the biggest risk I’ve taken so far.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

I don’t have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.

There’s always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There’s an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

I wasn’t a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

Whether I’m wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I’m always the same person inside.

Political courage is not political suicide.

Because of my wrestling background, nothing a director can throw at me on a set can faze me.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

You listen to Charlie Parker or John Coltrane before they found their voice, they sounded different. And when you listen to them after they found their voice on their instruments, they sound more confident and in control. Artists have that, too.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can’t lose.

Most of the stuff I try in a game, in the moment, I have supreme confidence I’m going to execute it.

Boldness be my friend.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.