Unconfident Quotes

#1. I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love.

Olivia Colman

#2. Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that ours is a weak culture so unconfident and insecure that if you bomb us and kill us our first urge is to find a way to flatter and apologize to you.

Mark Steyn

#3. But who are we, really? Just a bundle of good genes and bad genes mixed with good habits and bad habits. And since there's no gene for coolness or confidence, then being uncool and unconfident are just bad habits, which can be changed with enough guidance and will power.

Neil Strauss

#4. Then how unconfident of Itself this Deity was, Who didn't want Its finest creations to know right from wrong; and Who reigned by terror, insisting upon the unqualified submission of even Its closest associates, packing off all dissidents to Its blazing Siberias, the gulag-infernos of Hell ...

Salman Rushdie

#5. Voice mail was invented by confident people to make unconfident people say stupid shit that gets taped and haunts us forever.

A.S. King

#6. A lot of unconfident kids do tricks because it's the quickest route to impressing people," he explains. "You can stand behind something amazing and people think you're amazing.

Derren Brown

#7. The difference between a confident person and an unconfident person is simply that the confident person acts on their ambitions and desires and doesn't let fear of failure stop them.

Katty Kay

#8. I was a very unconfident teenager. I wanted desperately to fit in.

Trinny Woodall

#9. The very common error of young or unconfident cooks is to keep putting more of their own personal ideology into a plate until there's so much noise that you really can't even hear a tune. You can say more in an empty space than you can in a crowded one.

Mario Batali

#10. Crap talk; Noun. A condition where one's insecurities come spilling out of his mouth making him look like an unconfident idiot.

Dan Pearce

#11. Oh, of course, I always feel unconfident.

Katherine Dunn

#12. Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

C.L.R. James

#13. Many Americans follow pro basketball from November through June, for reasons that I found unexplainable, other than the fact that they were overly fascinated with soaring armpits.

Dan Jenkins

#14. If I give a book as a gift, it is invariably a children's book with beautiful artwork and a simple text. I adore the feel of them, the care taken in the artwork, and the high visual stimulation that sets off the simple but often powerful message the text conveys.

Kim Harrison

#15. So many things can drive you mad as a child, not only music.

Itzhak Perlman

#16. Man aspires to govern nature, but the more one studies ecology, the
more absurd it seems to speak of any one feature of an organism, or of
an organism/environment field, as governing or ruling others.

Alan W. Watts

#17. Probing the corners of the room like a caged cat, fly caught in a jar, fart in an elevator.

Dennis Vickers

#18. money? It would be difficult.

John Grisham

#19. Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.

Booth Tarkington

#20. But Ahab's glance was averted; like a blighted fruit tree he shook, and cast his last, cindered apple to the soil.

Herman Melville