#confide

There is no model, no actress, no Miss America contender that can outshine a happy, confident, secure woman. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#beautiful-confidence #beauty #being-yourself #confident #happiness

He confided his deepest secret to you; be always wary of his secret. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#confide #dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #philosophy

You can turn off the sun but I'm still gonna shine. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#self-belief #self-belief

One-time rival and subsequent usurper Secretary of State Seward finally settled into an assessment of Lincoln that, "His confidence and compassion increase every day. ↗

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

#confidence #empathy #leadership #personal-growth #leadership

The Jedi is a practitioner of mind mastery. He realizes that whatever they are experiencing, they are creating and that they can change their lives in an instant by changing their thoughts, their focus and the way they are observing and engaging the energy of the world around them and the people who they’ve invited into their lives to play whatever roles they’ve chosen them to play. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#confident #empowerment #jedi #motivational #self-confidence

Blackadder was fifty-four and had come to editing Ash out of pique. He was the son and grandson of Scottish schoolmasters. His grandfather recited poetry on firelight evenings: Marmion, Childe Harold, Ragnarok. His father sent him to Downing College in Cambridge to study under F. R. Leavis. Leavis did to Blackadder what he did to serious students; he showed him the terrible, the magnificent importance and urgency of English literature and simultaneously deprived him of any confidence in his own capacity to contribute to, or change it. The young Blackadder wrote poems, imagined Dr Leavis’s comments on them, and burned them. ↗

— A.S. Byatt

#craft #literature #poetry #self-confidence #skill

I'm just a kid, Chiron," I said miserably. "What good is one lousy hero against something like Kronos?" Chiron managed a smile. '"What good is one lousy hero'? Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain said something like that to me once, just before he single-handedly changed the course of your Civil War. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#inspirational #self-confidence #change

Do not go changing in your nature just to satisfy any creature. ↗

— Rawan M. ElBanna

#change

Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#happiness #inspirational #motivational #inspirational

You have a masterpiece inside you, you know. One unlike any that has ever been created, or ever will be. If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it. Only you. ↗

— Gordon MacKenzie

#inspiration #inspirational