Confidence Quotes

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.

Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

They can do all because they think they can.

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.

I build myself up with confidence with aggression, and confidence to control the game. If you're the bowler and you've got the ball in your hand you're controlling the game, so you've got to make sure the batsmen knows who's boss.

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.

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

With greater confidence in yourself and your abilities, you will set bigger goals, make bigger plans and commit yourself to achieving objectives that today you only dream about.

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

For they conquer who believe they can.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

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 lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.

I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.

I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad.

Community service has taught me all kinds of skills and increased my confidence. You go out there and think on your feet, work with others and create something from nothing. That's what life's all about.

Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.

Confidence is a very fragile thing.

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

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

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.

Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.

I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?

I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.

There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.

I've tried everything. I can say to you with confidence, I know a fair amount about LSD. I've never been a social user of any of these things, but my curiosity has carried me into a lot of interesting areas.

Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.

I don't like myself, I'm crazy about myself.

Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied.

This is how I define grace: you're on the main stage, and it looks like it has been rehearsed 100 times, everything goes so smoothly. That's where I get my confidence and success, from knowing that I have an edge because I know I'm prepared.

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

I don't feel any pressure. I just try to stay calm, follow my game plan, and try not to get overthrown.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.

However, I must say that I am very happy to see that we have such a positive result for our first referendum in our history and that gives me more confidence in Taiwan's democracy.

I haven't seen a player in this game, as long as I've been in it, that can't be pitched to... Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out.

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

Cool is not just one type of cool. Cool is confidence and knowing, i guess, what you are and being fine with it. Some people can be what people call “nerds” and they're cool because they know they're needs. They know what they are and they're so confident in knowing what they are that that makes them cool, and somebody aspires to be like them because they're fine with it. it's confidence, you know.

Insist upon yourself. Be original.

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

Confidence is the only bond of friendship.

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy

I don't try to be a sex bomb. I am one.

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

Confidence is courage at ease.

Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.

The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

I build confidence when I practice a variety of shots - hitting it high or low, working the ball. A lot of golfers go to the range and just hit full shots. That doesn't build on-course confidence, because you won't always hit full shots out there. My confidence is built on knowing I can effectively work the ball in any circumstance.

I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage.

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

I have confidence that the government of Luxembourg will not make any decision that frustrates this transaction.

I don't really see the hurdles. I sense them like a memory.

Strengthening our identity is one way of reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being.

I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.

If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.

Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.

I feel like it's me singing back to myself as a younger person and saying have confidence in being a bit different. I really felt I didn't fit in. My dad was from the Caribbean, my mum was English, we lived in quite a white area but we were quite poor, but also quite brainy, and I was a really, really skinny child so I felt a bit awkward about all these things.

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

Politeness wins the confidence of princes

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, youre in good shape.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face… do the thing you think you cannot do.

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

Don?t back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.

All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.

I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will?

Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom

A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting.

Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.

Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this."

The word feminism has negative connotations for men. Rather, we are wanting to celebrate females and their confidence. There is no political agenda behind my work. I'm just trying to make music that makes me feel good and confident. We've got a cool message.

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.

By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made

Success breeds confidence.

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to the possessor.