Quotes About Assuredness

#1. It was me, only me. Self-contained, self-reliant, and always, unquestionably self-assured.

Max Brooks

#2. I don't think my brand of self-confidence and self-assuredness can come from an outside source. It's got to come from me.

Gabourey Sidibe

#3. The mind can never be satisfied.

Wallace Stevens

#4. Problems form an important part of our lives. They are placed in our path for us to overcome them, not to be overcome by them. We must master them, not let them master us. Every time we overcome a challenge, we grow in experience, in self assuredness, and in faith.

Royden G. Derrick

#5. Someone who is self assured celebrates the accomplishments of others.

Thea Harris

#6. Your weaknesses will never develop, while your strengths will develop infinitely.

Donald O. Clifton

#7. It is better to arrive in time than to be invited.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#8. But now that she had achieved knighthood, and thought and acted as she wanted and decided, for one has to act in this way in order to save this world, she neither noticed nor cared that all the people around her thought she was insane.

Kathy Acker

#9. If you want to improve your self-worth, stop giving other people the calculator.

Tim Fargo

#10. Actually, parts of New Zealand remind me of Suffolk. There's not many flat bits, but just the atmosphere there. There's a kind of a core tranquility about it, a kind of assuredness that this is fairly close to approaching the perfect way to be.

Bernard Hill

#11. New York establishment isn't really a literary establishment. It's just a collection of broken down old newspaper hacks who pass judgment on books that they have not even read, with assuredness of Jehova.

James Purdy

#12. At the atomic level, matter does not even exist with certainty; it only exists as a tendency to exist.

Bruce H. Lipton

#13. The problem lies with us: we've become addicted to experts. We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom.

Noreena Hertz

#14. He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"
the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.

Honore De Balzac

#15. I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#16. Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.

Gerard Way

#17. When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.

John Galsworthy

#18. Sorry. You know I'm winging all of this, but even if I'd been through a dozen prior relationships ... I don't know if any of them would've prepared me for being with you." "They wouldn't," he said with complete assuredness.

Jeaniene Frost

#19. It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

Epicurus

#20. I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#21. Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278 pages that approached perfection. Its tightness of construction and assuredness of style reminded me of 'The Great Gatsby.'

Pat Conroy

#22. The mome rath isn't born that could outgrabe me!

Nicol Williamson

#23. I have an assuredness of myself. I never protect myself against it.

Jacob Lawrence

#24. If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.

Plautus

#25. A worm of fear wriggled in Jaden's stomach, and the ethereal assuredness he channeled moments before evaporated as the worm burrowed deeper. When he next spoke, his own voice of trapped hysteria broke through, the worm having reached journey's end.

Courtney Kirchoff

#26. How rare that an artist should make something which forces us to think, and encourages us to stop and think, to question why we behave the way we do.

Martin Firrell