A confident leader is like a duck. Above the water, he is calm and poised while below the water, he is driven by a flurry of focused activity.
When you are miserable, stressed, doubtful and fearful you are in control. When you are happy, peaceful, confident and faithful God is in control.
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
Confidence is this: Wearing your triumphs with humility, and wearing your scars with pride. Many of us do precisely the opposite.
When the world seems against you then your own confident and willpower will lead you till you reach your goal..
There is always the risk of being over-confident when you are preparing to face a weaker player.
Most of my confidence came from being with ladies, because I certainly wasn't getting any acting jobs.
Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them
Honesty is the great essential. It exalts the individual citizenship, and, without honesty, no man deserves the confidence of the people in private pursuit or in public office.
Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.
I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project.
Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that's too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.
As I get older, I feel better about myself because I've done a lot of spiritual work on myself and balanced myself out, and so I feel more confident about myself as a person and as a woman.
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.
Sexiness is about confidence and individuality. I can't keep my eyes off the women you see in cities like London, New York and Paris - the way they carry themselves and put themselves together are always so unique.
Turning 50 can be difficult, sometimes dangerous, for women. The danger is in that blip that can come from the fact that you become invisible, and if you're not careful and don't embrace that, it can trip you up and you lose confidence.
It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
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