You don’t carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

I don’t know if I’ve ever cared much what others think.

I should be a postage stamp, because that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked. I’m beautiful. I’m fast. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. I can’t possibly be beat.

I think it’s OK to be confident in yourself.

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I’m a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

Everybody wants to be me. What can I say?

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I’m doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I’ll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

I trust my taste. I trust it completely and I always have done, and I’ve always thought it isn’t that different from everybody else’s.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.

I don’t focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing, then I don’t worry about it.

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.

Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!

I always say that women should wear whatever makes them feel good about themselves. That’s what I always try to do.

It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.

She got her looks from her father. He’s a plastic surgeon.

I’m a woman, and anytime you tell a woman that she looks nice, it’s not going to upset her.

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.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

I will not be triumphed over.

There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.

There’s no reason why I can’t be a mogul. When I step into a room and I’m there to have a conversation, if it pertains to business, I want to be respected as a guy who knows what he’s talking about. And that, to me, holds more weight than anything else.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting – only woman at the table – and I’d think, ‚OK well, I don’t think I’ll say that. It may sound stupid.‘ And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it’s completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.

I would say things like ‚I am the greatest! I’m pretty! If you talk jive, you’ll drop in five! I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee! I’m pretty!‘ When white people heard me talking like this, some said, ‚That black man talks too much. He’s bragging.‘

I tend not to really think about what other people say. I’d rather just try and focus on what I’m doing, try and win basically.

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

I’m odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.

They would not find me changed from him they knew – only more sure of all I thought was true.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

I don’t even know how to speak up for myself, because I don’t really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

I’m not afraid to look like an idiot.

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

I still think I am the greatest.

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.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

If you hear a voice within you say ‚you cannot paint,‘ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Everyone calls me Bruno; they don’t ever call me Peter – that was just my government name.

I’m a bookworm. I know with my physical appearance that I don’t look like the typical reader. I’m in Barnes & Noble all the time, and you can look at people that look like they are supposed to be in there. I am in there, pants sagging, hat backwards.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.