Quotes About Confidence And Independence

#1. When you have kids, you can choose to make them like you, or become like them, and if you've got something that's going to change every six days or six minutes, you can decide to be as awake and alive and learning as they are.

Jez Butterworth

#2. Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

Rumi

#3. What a sense of possession, of confidence, it gave one to have pockets, to shove one's fists into them, as if in simply owning pockets one owned riches, owned independence.

Anita Desai

#4. Having interests translates as confidence to do and be things on your own without expecting a man to do and be for you. And confidence is attractive. Not to mention independence.

Belle De Jour

#5. My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised.

Robin Wright

#6. Denial is a very powerful thing.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#7. There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige

Abraham Maslow

#8. Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence

Albert Camus

#9. American style is about confidence, independence, diversity and free expression.

Tommy Hilfiger

#10. The most important aspect of Christianity is not the work we do, but the relationship we maintain and the surrounding influence and qualities produced by that relationship. That is all God asks us to give our attention to, and it is the one thing that is continually under attack.

Oswald Chambers

#11. And I'm not sure if it's G-d, or fate, or just air masses colliding over water, but I will say this: It feels, finally, like flying.

Una LaMarche

#12. I write what I want to read. If I were to write what I know, I'd be staring at a blank page forever.

R.J. Dennis

#13. Religion is one of the safest places to hide from God.

Richard Rohr

#14. He was a central player in some of the happiest chapters of our lives. Chapters of young love and new beginnings, of budding careers and tiny babies. Of heady successes and crushing disappointments; of discovery and freedom and self-realization.

Anonymous

#15. The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. She put
two-fingered guns to her temples when she saw us: red patch
of smoker's skin around her mouth like a raw sun rising.

Adrian Matejka

#17. The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.

George Bernard Shaw

#18. One by one, drops fell from her eyes like they were on an assembly line - gather, fall, slide ... gather, fall, slide ... each one commemorating something she had lost. Hope. Faith. Confidence. Pride. Security. Trust. Independence. Joy. Beauty. Freedom. Innocence.

Lisi Harrison

#19. The loss of a reliance on others often helpfully forces a more sophisticated rumination that enables the opening of previously unknown avenues.

Pawan Mishra

#20. Embrace the glory of age.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. When I went into film, it never occurred to me that I wouldn't be able to do whatever I wanted to do. Maybe that was a good thing in the beginning. I had blinders on, and I charged forward.

Lesli Linka Glatter

#22. Hospitals strip a lot from you - your independence, your confidence, sometimes your will to live. But pettiness too. Pettiness is the first casualty of the ICU waiting room. No one has the energy for it.

Dennis Lehane

#23. I don't need him to comfort me or tell me it's okay.
I can make it okay, myself.
Maybe that was what happened when you faced the very worst thing in the world.
She'd lost her family and her old life and maybe even her childhood, but she'd found herself.
And that would have to do.

L.J.Smith

#24. She will not bow her head to any woman or man, so why, indeed, should she bow to a needle?

Libbie Hawker

#25. No girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#26. Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.

Ken Robinson

#27. Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them.

Mandy Hale

#28. Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat.
Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.

D.H. Lawrence

#29. We are doing ourselves no favors when we look to the crowd to tell us where we are.

Erin Loechner

#30. When you speak of silent movies, everyone thinks of Charlie Chaplin first.

Michel Hazanavicius

#31. Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.

Al MacInnis

#32. But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope.

Howard Zinn

#33. Phyllis Schlafly speaks for all American women who oppose equal rights for themselves.

Andy Rooney

#34. Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed.

Tiffany Madison

#35. History, like nature, has its own economy, its own balancing of forces in the final accounting. Nothing can be lost, except to awareness.

Helen Foster Snow

#36. Who likes to encounter bad weather? But what if you could take advantage of adverse forces that you run into? What if you could turn adversity into opportunity or leverage it positively?

Karla Robertson