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Confidence Is Sexy

March 6th, 2006 by Laura Moncur in Motivation

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.

Aimee Mullins, Oprah Magazine, May 2004

This quotation is true for men as well as women, but there is one caveat. It has to be true confidence, not that fake kind. When you try to fake confidence, people can see it a mile away. You need to build your own list of things that you are confident about yourself. If you have nothing on your list, then you need to stop worrying about being sexy and start building your strengths.

If you do a Google search on “building confidence” you will find a lot of companies that want you to pay them money to help you out. Instead of trusting them, let’s look what the greats of the past have to say about building self-confidence.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

Brian Adams

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao-Tzu

In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill-success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.

Barbara Paley