Quotes about Self-assuredness

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.

Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have courage to complain, that's their problem.

No one is going to pay much attention to the person who has no confidence in himself.

If a lion turned every time small dogs barked at it, it would be the laughing stock of the jungle.

One must strut, like a swan among geese.

She was reasonably sure her remarks were not entirely foolish, and did not wish to be ignored, much less ignored and patronized alternately. Part of it—but only a part—she knew was due to the softness of her voice. So she developed a physics voice, a professional voice: clear, competent, and many decibels above conversational. With such a voice it was important to be right. She had to pick her moments

Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.

Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.