I’m never nervous.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

I don’t feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same time. No pressure, no diamonds. I want pressure: pressure creates drama, creates emotion.

I don’t see that my majority opinions are going to be undone.

I never felt settled or calm. You can’t really commit to life when you feel that.

The only thing I know is I ain’t changing my brand. I know what I believe. I’m confident in what I know. And I’m gonna say it. And if folks like it, wonderful. If they don’t like it, I understand.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

I grew up around lots of men – my father, my brothers, my uncles – so I wasn’t intimidated by them.

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

My fat never made me less money.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

Unless someone wants to look funny, I’ll not recommend anyone to copy my bowling action. But on a serious note, with the confidence that I have got from the amount of runs I have been scoring, when I’m thrown the ball to bowl, I am pretty sure of what I have to do. I may not be the most attractive to watch while bowling, but I can be effective.

I’m not trying to be sexy. It’s just my way of expressing myself when I move around.

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

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.

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

I’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?

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.‘

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

It is not so much our friends‘ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

I’m extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that… it sounds, well, I don’t care how it sounds – to me, scoring comes easy. It’s not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can.

When I say something’s going to happen, it’s going to happen.

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

Writing is like anything else – the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you’ll be about what’s going to happen to it, where it’s going, what it sounds like, whether it’s right.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

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.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

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.

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.

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

Success is the child of audacity.

I just don’t feel like I have to explain myself.

I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

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

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

I think I am the greatest fighter in any class. I know I can hold two, maybe even three belts.

I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I’m confidently cocky, you might say.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

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

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.

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

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they’re pretty, even if they aren’t.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.

I won’t be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn’t mean I want them to stop looking.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.

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.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.