#confident

I wasn't always this confident. Growing up as the awkward gay kid in a small town in Pennsylvania, you're constantly told, 'Don't be yourself, don't be proud of who you are.' ↗

— Carson Kressley

#awkward #be yourself #confident #constantly #gay

When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#approval #because #certainly #confident #dad

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#caution #confidential #selfishness

A hero is defined by what he or she can do, not by what he or she cannot do. ↗

— Damon Throop

#ability #confidence #confident #hero #heroes

If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that. ↗

— Roscoe Mitchell

#done #i #listen #nature #sounds

I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#confident #i #meter #most #myself

You can play a particular sport as long as you take good care of your body and you're confident enough and still have that hunger to where you want to be a part of an organization, a group of individuals where you feel you can contribute to the success of that team. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#care #confident #contribute #enough #feel

I'm not confident with the ladies. I can't just ask someone out in a club. I'd like to say I'm a gentleman. ↗

— Christopher Parker

#club #confident #gentleman #i #just

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#anything #before #confidently #good #good man

I'm confident of what I have to achieve in the buildup to London 2012. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#confident #i #london