Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.
Bryce CourtenayTags: courage pride self-confidence
Reading his autobiography many years later, I was astonished to find that Edward since boyhood had—not unlike Isaiah Berlin—often felt himself ungainly and ill-favored and awkward in bearing. He had always seemed to me quite the reverse: a touch dandyish perhaps but—as the saying goes—perfectly secure in his masculinity. On one occasion, after lunch in Georgetown, he took me with him to a renowned local tobacconist and asked to do something I had never witnessed before: 'try on' a pipe. In case you ever wish to do this, here is the form: a solemn assistant produces a plastic envelope and fits it over the amber or ivory mouthpiece. You then clamp your teeth down to feel if the 'fit' and weight are easy to your jaw. If not, then repeat with various stems until your browsing is complete. In those days I could have inhaled ten cigarettes and drunk three Tanqueray martinis in the time spent on such flaneur flippancy, but I admired the commitment to smoking nonetheless. Taking coffee with him once in a shopping mall in Stanford, I saw him suddenly register something over my shoulder. It was a ladies' dress shop. He excused himself and dashed in, to emerge soon after with some fashionable and costly looking bags. 'Mariam,' he said as if by way of explanation, 'has never worn anything that I have not bought for her.' On another occasion in Manhattan, after acting as a magnificent, encyclopedic guide around the gorgeous Andalusia (Al-Andalus) exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, he was giving lunch to Carol and to me when she noticed that her purse had been lost or stolen. At once, he was at her service, not only suggesting shops in the vicinity where a replacement might be found, but also offering to be her guide and advisor until she had selected a suitable new sac à main. I could no more have proposed myself for such an expedition than suggested myself as a cosmonaut, so what this says about my own heterosexual confidence I leave to others.
Christopher HitchensTags: autobiography self-confidence smoking heterosexuality shyness manhattan masculinity edward-said carol-blue andalusia georgetown-washington museum-of-modern-art pipes purses stanford
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
Marcus AureliusTags: self-confidence inner-strength self-contentment
You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle
David NichollsTags: love self-confidence gifts
If I am not for myself who is for me?
Hillel DanzigerTags: 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. ByattTags: poetry writing literature self-confidence craft skill conficence
Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.
Jess C. ScottTags: humor life truth friendship insightful love women beauty humanity society romance relationships human-nature self self-discovery reflection reflective meaning sense insight self-confidence young-adult humankind postmodern social-change life-and-death reflections modern-society modernism modernity self-love superficiality young-adult-literature thieves sensibility human-behavior superficial series thief-of-love thievery elven thief urban-fantasy young-adult-fiction young-adult-novels rogue thief-at-night elven-charm urban-fantasy-series ya-urban-fantasy young-adult-series
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: fear inspirational self-confidence
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle.
James SurowieckiTags: success procrastination confidence self-confidence
Her grandmother had once told her that one of life's best lessons was not being afraid to look foolish -- to just ask the question.
Melissa SenateTags: confidence curiosity self-confidence fearless
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