#confidence

He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest's eyes for signs of boredom or mockery, being intelligent enough to be unable fully to believe in his own claims to significance. He might, in a past life, have been a particularly canny and sharp-tongued royal advisor. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#intelligence #professionalism #significance #vulnerability #intelligence

You seem so clear about who you are. So certain that you are just right as you are, that for all your intelligence and maybe in spite of it, you never seem to need a second opinion. ↗

— Alice Walker

#inspirational

Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidence could be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt. ↗

— Toba Beta

#doubt #facts #lies #life #receptive

I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident person enjoys the journey, the people they meet along the way and sees life not as a competition. They reach the summit last because they know God isn’t at the top waiting for them. He is down below helping his followers to understand that the view is glorious where ever you stand. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#spirituality #life

...Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that the darkness held nothing more terrible than she was... ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#confidence #strength #witches #life

i feel my fear moving away in rings through time for a million years. ↗

— Breece D'J Pancake

#confidence #writing-life #life

the sight of me is good for sore eyes ↗

— Charles Dickens

#self-confidence #life

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#love

I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish. ↗

— Martha Stewart

#goals #love

Do you know what makes someone beautiful? Confidence. You don't have to have this shape eyes or that shape lips. No one seems to be able to decide which shape is best anyway. You can have every kind of blemish. It's confidence that attracts people. That's what everybody's looking for. It's what no potion can really give you. And believe me, Belle, you've got it. You've got it if you want it. ↗

— Daniel Nayeri

#self-confidence #beauty