#fide

You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire. ↗

— Jane Austen

#confidence

Piper had a new entry in her top-ten list of Times Piper Felt Useless. Fighting Shrimpzilla with a dagger and a pretty voice? Not so effective. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#percy-jackson-and-the-olympians #piper-mclean #self-confidence #self-esteem #skolopendra

A great man is always willing to be little. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#greatness #humbleness #humility #modesty #size

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#confidence

So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#lonliness #shyness #confidence

I've always been very confident in my immaturity. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#confidence

You know, I can't stop thinking about you. Oh really? Why you so obsessed about me? Because..you're so full of shit yet still alive. ↗

— Toba Beta

#overconfidence #obsession

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#confidence

The problems afflicting a nation are always in equal measure spiritual crises. ↗