Personal Confidence Quotes

I was in California, and I was going to UCLA, and I knew I certainly didn't have movie star looks. I remember seeing pictures and photos of Ethel Merman and Mary Martin, who were kind of average looking. I said, 'Well, that's for me, then, to go back to New York and try to be in musical comedy on Broadway.'

I have short hair. It doesn't make me more unattractive than a woman or my sisters that have more longer hair and a bit lighter.

I never had any problems with my height. I was always the smallest kid, at school and in my teams.

I've worn a suit and tie for most of my life. And I believe (for me), it makes me more confident navigating the world.

Have confidence in yourself. If you do not, the people will lose confidence in you.

I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.

I'm really not worried about what fans think.

I am an emotional person, but I am not embarrassed by that.

It starts with trusting yourself, even if people are telling you you're too young to trust yourself.

A fella who accepts himself and is relaxed into who he is - that appeals to people.

I'm always onstage, and everyone there already loves me, so I go with this certain confidence.

I'm just confident about where my career is headed.

I'm not slimming down for anyone and losing my figure.

Generally, I've never known quite how to fit in in civilian life, but on set, making a film, I know exactly where to go, how to behave and how I fit.

I knew I could hang on in the NBA, but I wasn't going to play.

Confidence is sexy. So if you're confident in who you are, that's sexier than anything.

When I listen to and play the songs from 'Narrow Stairs' now, that record feels like a record where we had established a style that arguably was more our own than it was in the beginning. Going into that record, I felt a lot more confident in my songwriting. It was a fairly prolific time for me.

I love my legs.

I once gave a workshop and I asked the women poets there, If you went back to that little town you've come from - these were from small towns - would you say, I'm a poet? And one of them said, If I said I was a poet in that town, they'd think I didn't wash my windows. And that stayed with me for so long, the sense of the collective responsibility of someone as against the individual thing it takes to be a poet.

There's probably a certain confidence in your voice, or something, that is validated. You know what I mean? I'm just imagining if people didn't already say that you were cool, that you'd [have] more doubt in what you're doing. That's not so conscious, but that's part of my cosmology now.

I don't have a problem with my body. I don't diet, and I'm not hiding anything. I'm not going to be the subject of a movie of the week 10 years from now.

I trust my taste. I trust it completely and I always have done, and I've always thought it isn't that different from everybody else's.

I'd like to believe that I'm chic yet cool and casual.

As long as I'm respected by my peers and coaches, I'm cool.

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.