#fide

Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels, suspecting and doubting nothing, and always seeing friends where they are not sure of foes. ↗

— Emily Brontë

#heathcliff #wuthering-heights #change

It’s such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone. ↗

— Zadie Smith

#writing #writing-process #change

Self-consciousness kills communication. ↗

— Rick Steves

#communication #confidence #self-consciousness #speech #travel

All individuals have moral deficiencies, and when introducing these to reality one not only strengthens himself but also the confidence of others in the human exigency for Christ due to a reflection throughout the body of Christ. ↗

— Criss Jami

#brokenness #christ #christianity #communication #confidence

There had been a time when I owned my life and now I felt like I was coming around to myself again. It's like I've finally discovered bones in myself I never knew I had. I discovered that it takes bravery to be one's self. I now know that the only thing I needed to be afraid of was of not finding my true self and having the courage to be me. ↗

— Benilde Little

#awareness #confidence #inspirational #knowledge-of-self #courage

Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#confidence #courage #dread #joseph-heller #positive

When you have the courage to follow your talents into the dark unknown places they lead, often God will send angels to light your way. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#confidence #skills #talents #courage

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!" (William Strunk) ... Why compound ignorance with inaudibility? ↗

— E.B. White

#courage #pronunciation #courage

Successful continual learning means maintaining a balance and variety of success-oriented attributes, the most prominent being awareness, confidence, persistence, determination, courage, and focus. But curiosity, ingenuity, and creativity may be even more important as it is these traits that fuel the desire to continue to question and challenge the status quo. ↗

— Lorii Myers

#confidence #courage #creativity #determination #focus-curiosity

I aine never seen a fox before. So, why should I be scared of you and I don't even-now know you a real fox for a fact? ↗

— Patricia C. McKissack

#courage #courage