Jeremy Irons Quotes

I didn't excel too highly in school, but I felt that I was moving ahead - and not just in boxing - but in life.

I am confident and I work so hard to be confident. If I wasn't talented, then I wouldn't be as confident.

It drove me as a kid. I couldn't bear the idea that I wasn't the smartest. Then I got put in a B stream for four years at my school. And that was the making of me in a weird way.

I have got lots of confidence in my own ability and I know I have got to keep up my standards.

I didn't know I was good enough to be a pro growing up.

Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.

For the first time in my life, I'm proud of myself.

When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough.

I wasn't always someone who was talented. It was more that I was loud and loved a challenge.

I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.

I think we should be unapologetic that we excel - and look beautiful while doing it.

By affirming your own gifts and accomplishments, you build your confidence and increase your ability to build a brighter future.

I've become more confident as I have got older. I care less what others think.

I'm stupidly proud of myself.

I'm learning to embrace who I am and what I look like.

Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

I've lost a lot of teeth and square yards of hide. But I've never lost my self-respect, and I've kept what I find in few men of my age - my enthusiasm.

I gain a lot of confidence through study.

Self-esteem, the kind that comes from finding the sweet spot between a healthy fondness for yourself and healthy self-skepticism, tends to get harder to come by the older we get.

Whatever it is that gives you that confidence will vary from person to person, but I do believe that it is the key to succeeding at anything in life - career, relationships, anything.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.

The older I get, the more I'm starting to believe in myself.

Everybody has an inferiority complex when they step into a room. But then when you have children and you get older, it doesn't really matter. When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't train.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.