Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.
Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.
Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'Stop thinking', swig, 'empty your head', swig, 'now, seriously empty your head'.
Confidence is always the best accessory. Own the moment. Own your space.
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 histori...
Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
Why yes, I can,' said Midas Mulligan, when he was asked whether he could name a person more evil than the man with a heart closed to pity. 'The man who uses another's pity for him as a weapon.
The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance of thei...
And here I was, left with only myself to deal with. It was entirely up to me.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Zaphod marched quickly down the passageway, nervous as hell, but trying to hide it by striding purposefully.
If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, then you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're...
Care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.
Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or...
Commandment #1: Believe in yourself. Commandment #2: Get over yourself.
A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.
Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
Doubt quit stopping by when I started staying out late, dancing in a flood of self assurance discovered when holding your hand.
Sometimes you just know... And then it doesn't even seem scary. Just certain and joyful. Like a deep stream, flowing steady and strong, jumping and splashing and churning as it passes around and over...
Projecting an air of self-assurance will take you a long way.
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