Personal Growth & Self-Improvement: Confidence Quotes

"I can do anything. In GQ, I appeared as a man"

Boy George, Musician

Cathy Freeman, Athlete

"No, I don't tolerate pressure from anyone about anything"

Ashley Judd, Actress

"I have trouble voicing my thoughts... I can't communicate very well that way"

Ayumi Hamasaki, Musician

"I love the idea of a woman being able to discover the idea of power this way, on such a scale. And I don't know about that, what it means - well, I guess I'd better, or my part's in trouble"

Mary McDonnell, Actress

"I know I work quite hard at making people like me"

Timothy Spall, Actor

"I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try"

Zachary Quinto, Actor

"I'm not the classic type - fair skin, very beautiful women of a classic type, I'm talking about now"

Debra Wilson, Comedian

"I never kept up with the fashions. I believed in wearing what I thought looked good on me"

Bettie Page, Model

"People in Nevada know me from the street to the ring to the Senate chambers. I've never had to prove my manhood to anyone"

Harry Reid, Politician

"You know, it sounds corny, but I believe in myself. And I work hard"

Arthur Godfrey, Entertainer

"I try not to worry about what that's going to look like. If you worry about looking stupid, that's when you look really stupid"

Rob Schneider, Comedian

"Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself"

William J. H. Boetcker, Clergyman

"I was always opinionated"

Kim Novak, Actress

"You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through"

Rosalynn Carter, First Lady

"Fashion is a tool... to compete in life outside the home. People like you better, without knowing why, because people always react well to a person they like the looks of"

Mary Quant, Designer

"I have never known stage-fright at any time"

Kate Smith, Musician

"They think I'm depressed because I look serious in photos. It's usually because I'm just nervous. But I've stopped dressing for other people. If I think I look good, that's the most important thing"

Rose Byrne, Actress

"I was a shy little girl, nothing like what I am now"

Debra Wilson, Comedian

"I never regretted what I turned down"

Angela Lansbury, Actress

"Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter"

Aaron Hill, Poet

"I was always insecure about the way I looked"

Timothy Spall, Actor

"If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself"

Dan Marino, Athlete

"Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of"

Daniel Day-Lewis, Actor

"I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott"

Sam Elliott, Actor

"So many comics have such low self-esteem"

Debra Wilson, Comedian

"I think I'm going to be around awhile"

Dan Marino, Athlete

"Some people can get away with being very sexy to men and not looking like a complete cow, but I didn't think I was in a position where people knew me well enough"

Sophie Ellis Bextor, Musician

"Sometimes just when I say hello the right way, I'm like, whoa, I'm so cool"

Robert Pattinson, Actor

"I've sort of heard that "it" girl thing, but not really. Hearing it from a few people doesn't solidify it in my mind and I wouldn't know how to solidify that title. It's so elusive and what does it mean, I don't know?"

Rachel McAdams, Actress

"Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better"

Margaret Oliphant, Novelist

"You start to look at it with a deeper respect, and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect"

Jimmy Chamberlin, Musician

"It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly"

Ryan Phillippe, Actor

"It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me"

Rosanne Cash, Musician

"I don't think I'm particularly beautiful at all"

Liv Tyler, Actress

"I used to have trouble in front of an audience. I felt uncomfortable"

Robert Goulet, Musician

"It feels like I could go outside with a bikini thong on right now"

Puff Daddy, Musician

"I have a great story to tell... and I tell it well. No holds barred"

Aishwarya Rai, Actress

"Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it"

Sue Townsend, Novelist

"If people like what I do, fine. If they don't, fine"

Robert Goulet, Musician

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