Confidence famous quotes
04-18-2025
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If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.
-- A. A. Milne -
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.
-- Adnan Pachachi -
I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
-- Al Neuharth -
I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.
-- Alain Prost -
Wouldn't it be powerful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do just about anything if you knew it would make you happy? This is precisely how much life loves you and wants you to nurture yourself. The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.
-- Alan Cohen -
Our success at friendship, business, sports, love--indeed, at nearly every enterprise we attempt--is largely determined by our self-image. People who have a confidence in their personal worth seem to be magnets for success and happiness.
-- Alan Loy McGinnis -
We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.
-- Alan Shearer -
Many men are like unto sausages: Whatever you stuff them with, that they will bear in them.
-- Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy -
To lose faith in oneself is to cease to create; to cease to create is to cease to exist.
-- Alice Tisdale Hobart -
Yet you should practice the greatest possible love and confidence in treating with Him.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
Not only is there no need of an intermediary through whom He would want you to speak to Him, but He finds His delight in having you treat with Him personally and in all confidence.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
With such thoughts in your mind, now that you have resolved to love Him and please Him with all your strength, your only fear should be to fear God too much and to place too little confidence in Him.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
Right now I have more confidence in myself. I grew up.
-- Amelie Mauresmo -
There's nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn't.
-- Amy Chua -
Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
-- Andre Maurois -
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
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.
-- Andrew Shue -
The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.
-- Andy Rooney -
Confidence is something you acquire in yourself by believing in self ability with courage and conviction.
-- Anil Sinha -
Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
-- Anna Freud -
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-- Anna Quindlen -
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
-- Ansel Adams -
Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
-- Anthony Trollope -
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
-- Aristotle -
Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.
-- Armstrong Williams -
At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.
-- Arsene Wenger -
I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage.
-- Arsenio Hall -
I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, " he explained. "I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence.
-- Arthur Golden -
Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.
-- Arthur H -
The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.
-- Arthur L. Williams, Jr. -
Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.
-- Avril Lavigne -
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.
-- B. C. Forbes -
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.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.
-- Benjamin Spock -
I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us.
-- Bennie Thompson -
Does everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure. Either I felt completely useless, unattractive, and worthless, or that I was pretty much a success, and everything I did was bound to succeed. When I was confident, I could overcome the hardest challenges. But all it took was the smallest setback for me to be sure that I was utterly worthless. Regaining my self-confidence had nothing to do with success...whether I experienced it as a failure or triumph was utterly dependent on my mood.
-- Bernhard Schlink -
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell -
It was important that I learn that what I wanted was no different from what other artists wanted: confidence that I could be my own censor, audience, and competition.
-- Beverly Pepper -
I have always felt like you really don't have a genuine confidence unless you demonstrate the ability to do something. You can talk about it, but you have to demonstrate it.
-- Bill Parcells -
The bottom line in my view is that America's mothers and fathers deserve to have confidence in law enforcement's ability to ensure that their children are being raised in the safest possible environment.
-- Bob Ney -
In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
-- Boethius -
I love Tina Turner. I'm one of Tina Turner's biggest fans. Tina Turner was a big influence on me to become a singer. A role model and in a way she gave me back my confidence in choosing my material.
-- Bonnie Tyler -
Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied.
-- Boris Trajkovski -
Buddhists have a long-standing tradition of believing that at some level we always know what the best course of action is in any given situation. We just have to be quiet enough to let that course of action present itself to us. And we need the confidence to act when life shows us what we need to do.
-- Brad Warner -
Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.
-- Brené Brown -
You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.
-- Brené Brown -
Believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic.
-- Brené Brown -
I've learned what works and what doesn't, which gives me confidence.
-- Brian Johnson -
The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.
-- Brian Tracy -
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
-- Brian Tracy -
Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem.
-- Brian Tracy -
Self-confidence comes naturally when your inner life and your outer life are in harmony.
-- Brian Tracy -
When you engage in systematic, purposeful actin, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident abut yourself.
-- Brian Tracy -
Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
-- Brian Tracy -
Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.
-- Brian Tracy -
Eight shows a week is daunting, and it can be terrifying. But it just instills such a sense of confidence and growth.
-- Brooke Shields -
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
-- Bruce Lee -
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.
-- Bruce Lee -
I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.
-- Bruce Willis -
The world will provide you with every imaginable obstacle, but the one most difficult to overcome will be the lack of faith in yourself. Leave it to others to have doubts about you.
-- Callie Khouri -
When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world, I love them so deeply for being able to overcome such unbelievable odds.
-- Camryn Manheim -
In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.
-- Carter G. Woodson -
The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.
-- Carter G. Woodson -
Self-assurance doesn't come from looking perfect and having a great title, but from accepting yourself with all you mistakes and eccentricities.
-- Cecelie Berry -
A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
-- Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling -
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
-- Charles Darwin -
All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.
-- Charles Dickens -
Only you can determine your choice of attitude. Choose wisely, choose carefully, choose confidently!
-- Charles R. Swindoll -
There are times we need to tell ourselves, "Good job!" when we know that is true.
-- Charles R. Swindoll -
The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.
-- Charles Rosen -
For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.
-- Charley Pride -
Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements.
-- Chauncey Wright -
I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan.
-- Chen Shui-bian -
Even if I were knocked down by one gunshot it wouldn't affect our democracy and I wasn't knocked down and I have great confidence in our democracy and in Taiwan and in the people of Taiwan.
-- Chen Shui-bian -
You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.
-- Chris Evert -
I think that whatever size or shape body you have, it's important to embrace it and get down!
-- Christina Aguilera -
Having talent isn't merely about being competent; confidence is actually a part of that talent.
-- Claire Shipman -
When I became a Christian my confidence grew.
-- Cliff Richard -
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
-- Coco Chanel -
One of my mottos is flaunt what you've got left.
-- Cybill Shepherd -
If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself.
-- Dan Marino -
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.
-- Dan Rather -
People exaggerate their confidence in their plans - something we call the planning fallacy... The existence of the plan tends to induce overconfidence.
-- Daniel Kahneman -
Sincerity is the surest road to confidence.
-- David Lloyd George -
Never ask for approval in your work. Life is your own, inspiration is your own, you create alone, and the results are your own - and that's good enough.
-- David Luiz -
Nothing can be achieved without hope or confidence. Be sure you always have both!
-- Denise Austin -
I have confidence in people's basic common sense.
-- Dixie Lee Ray -
I had gained so much confidence through my college achievements that I wanted to tackle the world.
-- Donna Rice Hughes -
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.
-- Dr. Seuss -
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
-- e. e. cummings -
It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.
-- E. H. Harriman
