Confidence Quotes:

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

topic: Friendship, Relationship, Confidence, Makes You Stronger, Long Relationship

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

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Confidence, Respect, Honesty, Forfeit, I Respect You

If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Confidence, Perseverance, Half, Salem

I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.

- Adnan Pachachi

topic: Confidence, Thinking, Class

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.

- Al Neuharth

topic: Confidence, Fall, Sky, Building Confidence, Confidence Building

I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.

- Alain Prost

topic: Confidence, Important, Wells

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

topic: Confidence, Powerful, Love You, Inspirational Self Esteem, Building Confidence

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

topic: Confidence, Sports, Self, Personal Worth

We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.

- Alan Shearer

topic: Confidence, Games, Lines, Fine Lines

Many men are like unto sausages: Whatever you stuff them with, that they will bear in them.

- Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy

topic: Confidence, Men, Sausage

To lose faith in oneself is to cease to create; to cease to create is to cease to exist.

- Alice Tisdale Hobart

topic: Confidence, Creativity, Oneself

we are the ones we have been waiting for

- Alice Walker

source: Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.342, The New Press

topic: Confidence, Waiting, African American, Times Have Changed, Inspirational Presidential

Yet you should practice the greatest possible love and confidence in treating with Him.

- Alphonsus Liguori

topic: Confidence, Practice, Possible Love

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

topic: Confidence, Needs, Delight

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

topic: Confidence, Mind, Littles

Right now I have more confidence in myself. I grew up.

- Amelie Mauresmo

source: The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.

topic: Confidence, Grew Up, Grew, Amelie

There's nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn't.

- Amy Chua

source: Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, p.17, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Confidence, Building, Building Confidence

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

- Andre Maurois

topic: Smile, Confidence, Self Confidence, Lack Of Self Confidence

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

- Andrew Carnegie

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Confidence, Put First Things First, True Leader

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

topic: Confidence, Men, Mind, Shades Of Grey

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

topic: Confidence, Thinking, Skills, Community Service

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

topic: Confidence, Blessed, Doors

Confidence is something you acquire in yourself by believing in self ability with courage and conviction.

- Anil Sinha

topic: Confidence, Believe, Self

Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.

- Anna Deavere Smith

topic: Confidence, Hopeful, Disposition

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

- Anna Freud

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Confidence, Inspirational Self Confidence, Inspirational Self Esteem

Confidence is a plant of slow growth ...

- Anna Leonowens

source: Speech in 'Hansard' 14 January 1766, col. 97

topic: Confidence, Growth, Plant, Slow Growth

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

- Anna Quindlen

source: Anna Quindlen (2009). “Being Perfect”, p.15, Random House

topic: Confidence, Letting Go, Being Yourself, Discovering Yourself, Amazing Woman

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

topic: Confidence, Creativity, Men, Building Confidence, Dictating

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

source: 'The Small House at Allington' (1864) ch. 32

topic: Inspirational, Confidence, Men, Reckoning

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

- Aristotle

topic: Inspirational, Encouraging, Confidence, Leadership Courage, Moral Excellence

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

topic: Sports, Confidence, Dream

I set out to be the best and I am.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Confidence, Being The Best

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

source: "Home » Blogs » matthew.robinson's blog » How do world class coaches and the worlds best... How do world class coaches and the worlds best clubs view Youth player Development?". Interview with Alfred Galustian, challengefc.org. May 02, 2015.

topic: Soccer, Confidence, Winning, Young Age

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

topic: Confidence, Self, Actors

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

topic: Confidence, Fighting, Men, Inspirational Career, Memories Of A Geisha

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

topic: Confidence, Discovery, Made, Compton

The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.

- Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

topic: Confidence, Winning, Numbers

Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.

- Avril Lavigne

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Motivational, Confidence, Thinking, Confidence And Love, Confidence Love

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

topic: Faith, Confidence, Courage, Faith And Courage

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

topic: Confidence, Fall, Achievement, Dismay, Easy Tasks

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Confidence, Bundles, Humility And Modesty

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

topic: Confidence, Wisdom, Children

I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us.

- Bennie Thompson

topic: Confidence, Believe, America, Consumer Confidence, Corporate America

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

source: Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.67, Vintage

topic: Confidence, Insecure, Self, Overconfident

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Confidence, Being Yourself, Fear, Inspire Creativity, Love Yourself More

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

topic: Confidence, Artist, Competition

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

topic: Confidence, Like You, Genuine

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

topic: Confidence, Mother, Children

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.

- Boethius

source: Boethius, Aeterna Press (2016). “Boethius Collection [2 Books]”, p.216, Aeterna Press

topic: Confidence, Ignorance, Men

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

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Confidence, Role Models, Fans, Turner, Biggest Fan

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

source: "Man of Vision: Interview with the President Of the Republic of Macedonia Mr. Boris Trajkovski". "Macedonia: A Nation at a Crossroads" by Sam Vaknin, February 12, 2009.

topic: Confidence, Community, Identity, Personal Identity

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

topic: Confidence, Buddhist, Believe

Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.

- Brené Brown

topic: Confidence, Someone You Love, Like You, Words Of Confidence, Boost Your Confidence

You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.

- Brené Brown

topic: Confidence, Hustle, Stories, Worthiness

Believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic.

- Brené Brown

topic: Confidence, Believe, Giving

I've learned what works and what doesn't, which gives me confidence.

- Brian Johnson

topic: Confidence, Giving

The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Confidence, Courage, Fear, Innovation And Business, Business Innovation

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Success, Confidence, Needs, Written Goals, Confidence Boosting

Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Confidence, Self Esteem, People, Negative People, Destroyers

Self-confidence comes naturally when your inner life and your outer life are in harmony.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Confidence, Self Confidence, Self

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

topic: Inspirational, Confidence, Systematic, Stretching Yourself, Stretching

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Confidence, Self, Prophecy, Self Fulfilling Prophecy

Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.

- Brian Tracy

source: Brian Tracy (2008). “Universal Laws of Success”, p.15, Jaico Publishing House

topic: Confidence, Ideas, Emotion, Spoken Word, Power Of Words

Eight shows a week is daunting, and it can be terrifying. But it just instills such a sense of confidence and growth.

- Brooke Shields

topic: Confidence, Eight, Scary

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Inspirational, Life, Confidence, Martial Arts Inspirational, Instructors

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

topic: Faith, Confidence, Spiritual, Dominating

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

topic: Confidence, Trouble

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

topic: Confidence, Doubt, Overcoming, Lack Of Faith, Faith In Yourself

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

topic: Confidence, Odds, Understanding

In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.

- Carter G. Woodson

topic: Confidence, People, Facts

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

topic: Confidence, Long, People

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

topic: Confidence, Mistake, Self, Eccentricity, Self Assurance

A timid question will always receive a confident answer.

- Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling

topic: Confidence, Answers

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

topic: Positive, Confidence, Ignorance

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Confidence, Wonder, Evoke, Patriot Day

Only you can determine your choice of attitude. Choose wisely, choose carefully, choose confidently!

- Charles R. Swindoll

topic: Confidence, Attitude, Choices

There are times we need to tell ourselves, "Good job!" when we know that is true.

- Charles R. Swindoll

topic: Confidence, Jobs, Needs

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

topic: Confidence, Past, May

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

source: Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

topic: Confidence, Self, Doubt, Self-doubt, Defining Moments

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

source: Chauncey Wright (2000). “The Evolutionary Philosophy of Chauncey Wright”, p.96, A&C Black

topic: Confidence, Agreement, Mind, Positivism

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

topic: Confidence, Rights, Roots, Great Confidence, Basic Human Rights

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

topic: Confidence, People, Democracy, Great Confidence, Gunshots

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

- Chris Evert

topic: Confidence, Games, Play, Sports Training, Inspirational Training

I think that whatever size or shape body you have, it's important to embrace it and get down!

- Christina Aguilera

topic: Confidence, Thinking, Important, Inspirational Body, Confidence And Love

Having talent isn't merely about being competent; confidence is actually a part of that talent.

- Claire Shipman

topic: Confidence, Talent

When I became a Christian my confidence grew.

- Cliff Richard

topic: Christian, Confidence, Grew

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Inspirational, Confidence, Fashion, Improve Self Esteem, Inspiring Business

One of my mottos is flaunt what you've got left.

- Cybill Shepherd

topic: Confidence, Motto, My Motto

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

topic: Confidence, Player, Special

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

topic: Confidence, Interesting, Curiosity

People exaggerate their confidence in their plans - something we call the planning fallacy... The existence of the plan tends to induce overconfidence.

- Daniel Kahneman

topic: Confidence, People, Planning, Overconfidence

Sincerity is the surest road to confidence.

- David Lloyd George

source: Speech at Aberystwyth, August 3, 1928.

topic: Confidence, Sincerity

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

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Confidence, Inspiration, Approval

Nothing can be achieved without hope or confidence. Be sure you always have both!

- Denise Austin

source: "Babaji's Teachings". Book by Gaura Devi, p. 7, 1990.

topic: Confidence, Without Hope

I have confidence in people's basic common sense.

- Dixie Lee Ray

topic: Confidence, People, Common Sense

I had gained so much confidence through my college achievements that I wanted to tackle the world.

- Donna Rice Hughes

topic: Confidence, College, Achievement

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

source: Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

topic: Life, Graduation, Confidence, Going To College, Seeing Yourself

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

topic: Friendship, Confidence, Humility, Acclaim

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

- e. e. cummings

topic: Life, Confidence, Believe, Just Believe In Yourself, Inspirational Confidence

It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.

- E. H. Harriman

topic: Confidence, Courage, Fear

When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.

- Eamon de Valera

topic: Confidence, People, Done

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

- Eddie Murphy

source: FaceBook post by Eddie Murphy from Feb 12, 2014

topic: Confidence, Self Confidence, Initiative

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

- Edgar Allan Poe

topic: Life, Friendship, Confidence

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

- Edwin Moses

topic: Confidence, Memories, Hurdle

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Life, Confidence, Thinking, Inspirational Confidence, Belief In Yourself

A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Confidence, Leadership By Great Leaders, Leadership Skills

What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Confidence, Courageous

The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.

- Ella Maillart

topic: Confidence, Dream, Usual

The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.

- Ellen Goodman

topic: Confidence, Hate, Real, Goodman

Oddly, because she has that confidence, the people around her like her more. She becomes more a part of the Reaper family, and she also is able to get along with people more outside of their circle as well.

- Ellen Muth

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Confidence, Circles, People

Security is mortal's chiefest enemy.

- Ellen Terry

topic: Confidence, Enemy, Security

Fortune befriends the bold.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Confidence, Courage, Determination

Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.

- Eoin Colfer

source: Eoin Colfer (2001). “Artemis Fowl”

topic: Confidence, Humorous, Cocky, Artemis Fowl

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

- Epictetus

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Confidence

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

- Epicurus

topic: Confidence, Power, Men, Epicureanism

We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs subordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.

- Eric Hoffer

topic: Change, Confidence, Self Esteem, Drastic Change

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

- Erich Fromm

source: Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.206, Routledge

topic: Faith, Confidence, Able, Being Faithful

The greatest possession is Self-possession.

- Ethel Mumford

topic: Confidence, Self, Possession

If one burdens the future with one's worries, it cannot grow organically. I am filled with confidence, not that I shall succeed in worldly things, but that even when things go badly for me I shall still find life good and worth living.

- Etty Hillesum

topic: Confidence, Good Life, Worry, Worldly Things

I have a confidence in my understanding of formal aesthetics and I don't want to be aware of it or make that my problem.

- Eva Hesse

topic: Confidence, Understanding, Want

Confidence, to my way of thinking, generally is all the magic needed to work miracles.

- Evalyn Walsh McLean

source: Evalyn Walsh McLean (2015). “Father Struck It Rich”, p.206, Pickle Partners Publishing

topic: Confidence, Thinking, Miracle

Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late.

- Fay Weldon

topic: Confidence, Writing, Impossible

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

- Felix Frankfurter

source: Dennis v. United States, 241 U.S. 494, 556, 1951.

topic: Confidence, Men, Mind, Inquiring Minds, Confidence And Strength

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Confidence, Men, Silence

Though confidence is very fine, and makes the future sunny; I want no confidence for mine, I'd rather have the money

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Confidence, Want, Sunny, No Confidence

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

topic: Birthday, Happiness, Confidence, Inspirational Birthday

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.

- Frank Robinson

topic: Confidence, Player, Games

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Confidence, Honesty, Patriotic, Inaugural Address, Unselfish Love

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Confidence, Communication, Mean, Concealment, Concealing

Great parts of our economy are directly dependent upon women having a weak self-concept. A multi-billion dollar fashion-cosmetic industry testifies to the validity of this approach. A woman who does not know who she is can be sold anything.

- Gabrielle Burton

source: Gabrielle Burton (1972). “I'm Running Away from Home, But I'm Not Allowed to Cross the Street: A Primer of Women's Liberation”

topic: Confidence, Fashion, Self, Self Concept

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

- Gene Fowler

topic: Confidence, Men

The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.

- Georg Simmel

topic: Confidence, Secret, Essentials, Reciprocal, Secret Society

When you're young, you tend to believe what people tell you, and that's dangerous. As you get older, you learn that you're never as good or as bad as they say you are. If you understand this, you win.

- George Clooney

topic: Confidence, Believe, Winning

Everybody wants to be somebody. The thing you have to do is give them confidence they can. You have to give a kid a dream.

- George Foreman

topic: Confidence, Dream, Kids

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

- George Herbert

topic: Inspirational, Sports, Confidence

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

- George McGovern

topic: Faith, Confidence, Political

I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song.

- George Michael

topic: Confidence, Song, Views, Serious Issues

The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence

- George Santayana

topic: Confidence, Inspire, Quality

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

- George Santayana

topic: Confidence, Knowledge, Self, Self Assurance

Not to this extent but from day one I had an awful lot of confidence when I got started.

- George Thorogood

topic: Confidence, Awful

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

- George Washington

topic: Friendship, Confidence, Inspiration, Bff, Courteous

Boldness, and again boldness, and always boldness!

- Georges Danton

source: Speech to Legislative Committee of General Defence, 2 Sept. 1792

topic: Confidence, Boldness

We are always the same age inside.

- Gertrude Stein

source: "The American Treasury, 1455-1955". Book edited by Clifton Fadiman, p. 946, 1955.

topic: Happy Birthday, Confidence, Positive Thinking, Staying Young, Inspirational Age

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.

- Gertrude Stein

topic: Confidence, Country, War, War Time

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

- Giacomo Casanova

topic: Confidence, Self, Useless

Well, we all know that self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you.

- Gloria Gaynor

topic: Life, Confidence, Self Esteem, Inspiring Self Esteem

There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Confidence, Courage, Fear, Get Ahead, Rocking The Boat

To anyone that ever told you you're no good.. they're no better.

- Hayley Williams

topic: Motivational, Confidence, Self Confidence, Confidence In Yourself, Confidence Boosting

Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.

- Hedy Lamarr

topic: Birthday, Confidence, Age

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

- Helen Keller

topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Confidence, Inspirational Addiction Recovery, Inspirational Confidence

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.

- Henrik Ibsen

topic: Confidence, Doubt, Doubting Yourself

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

- Henry C. Link

source: Henry C. Link (1945). “The Return to Religion”, p.29, Lulu.com

topic: Confidence, Mistake, Becoming, Making Mistakes And Learning From Them, Funny Swimming

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Confidence, Tyrants, Political

What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Inspirational, Confidence, Lying

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Success, Confidence, Motivation Goal Setting, Definition Of Leadership

Growing up, I started developing confidence in what I felt. My parents helped me to believe in myself. I wasn't the best looking guy, I wasn't the best athlete in the world, but they made me feel good about myself.

- Herschel Walker

topic: Confidence, Growing Up, Believe

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

- Homer

topic: Friendship, Confidence, Decent, Boldness And Courage

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Confidence, Peacefulness, Speech Impediment

Who has self-confidence will lead the rest.

- Horace

topic: Confidence, Self Confidence, Self

In science, mistakes always precede the truth

- Horace Walpole

topic: Confidence, Mistake

Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

- Hubert Green

topic: Confidence, Winning, Too Much Confidence

I say, dress to please yourself. Listen to your inner muse and take a chance. Wear something that says 'Here I am!' today.

- Iris Apfel

topic: Confidence, Today, Dresses, Please Yourself

There are offences given and offences not given but taken.

- Izaak Walton

topic: Confidence, Taken, Given

People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you've figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence.

- Jack Canfield

topic: Motivational, Positive, Confidence, Chicken Soup

Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence. Legitimate self-confidence is a winner. The true test of self-confidence is the courage to be open—to welcome change and new ideas regardless of their source. Self-confident people aren't afraid to have their views challenged. They relish the intellectual combat that enriches ideas.

- Jack Welch

topic: Confidence, Ambition, Self, Fine Lines

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

- Jack Welch

topic: Leadership, Confidence, Self

Lack of confidence is what makes you want to change somebody else's mind. When you're OK, you don't need to convince anyone else in order to empower yourself.

- Jada Pinkett Smith

topic: Confidence, Order, Empowering, Empower Yourself, Lack Of Confidence

But failure has to be an option in art and in exploration - because it's a leap of faith. And no important endeavor that required innovation was done without risk. You have to be willing to take those risks....

- James Cameron

topic: Confidence, Art, Risk, Boost Your Confidence, Self Confidence Motivational

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

- James Cash Penney

topic: Leadership, Confidence, Trust No One

The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence.

- James Fisher

topic: Loyalty, Confidence, Integrity, Effective Leadership

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

- James Madison

topic: Confidence, Money, Self Esteem, Circulation, No Confidence

Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach.

- James Wolfe

topic: Confidence, Rocks, Enemy, Steep

A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself

- Jan Smuts

topic: Confidence, Men, Opponents

Where there is any good disposition, confidence begets faithfulness; but distrust, if it do not produce treachery; never fails to destroy every inclination to evince fidelity. Most people disdain to clear themselves from the accusations of mere suspicion.

- Jane Porter

topic: Confidence, People, Failing

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.

- Janeane Garofalo

topic: Confidence, Courage, Funny Inspirational

I am iron butterfly ... / I am she/we / of flesh / and iron / and silk wings, / healing, flying / into a gentle blue sky.

- Janice Mirikitani

topic: Confidence, Healing, Butterfly

Being awesome really comes down to having confidence.

- Jason Ellis

source: Jason Ellis (2014). “The Awesome Guide to Life: Get Fit, Get Laid, Get Your Sh*t Together”, p.11, Harper Collins

topic: Confidence, Being Awesome

Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.

- Jean Sibelius

topic: Inspirational, Confidence, Courage, Statues

Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.

- Jeremy Collier

topic: Confidence, Ignorance, Self, Self Opinion

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Life, Motivational, Confidence, Information And Communication, Language And Communication

We simply must have faith in each other, faith in our ability to govern ourselves, and faith in the future of this Nation. Restoring that faith and that confidence to America is now the most important task we face.

- Jimmy Carter

topic: Faith, Confidence, America

The unlived life is not worth examining. ... Self-awareness, self-examination, self-consciousness are for the quiet moments. In the arena they are paralyzing. The self must not be held out of the arena until living skills have been learned.

- Jo Coudert

topic: Confidence, Self, Skills, Quiet Moments

Confidence is a belief in myself and my ability. I built my confidence through hard training. I believed there was no one out there working any harder than me.

- Joan Benoit

topic: Confidence, Training, Belief

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Motivational, Confidence, Self Esteem, Inspiring Self Esteem, Words Of Confidence

Confidence is a very fragile thing.

- Joe Montana

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Confidence, Fragile Things

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

- Joe Namath

topic: Confidence, Fun, Self Esteem, Confidence In Yourself, Words Of Confidence

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

- Joe Paterno

topic: Teamwork, Confidence, Reality, Individual Performance, Individual Work

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

- Joe Paterno

topic: Confidence, Play, Needs, Sports Spirit, Sportsman Spirit

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

- John Calvin

topic: Confidence, Block, Christian Inspirational

No one who deserves confidence ever solicits it.

- John Churton Collins

topic: Confidence, Deserve

Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.

- John Dewey

topic: Confidence, Facts, Facts Of Life, Confidence And Courage

For they conquer who believe they can.

- John Dryden

topic: Confidence, Believe, Literature

One's self-image is very important because if that's in good shape, then you can do anything, or practically anything.

- John Gielgud

topic: Confidence, Self, Important

Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.

- John Haggai

topic: Confidence, Focus, Energy

Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.

- John Lothrop Motley

source: John Lothrop Motley (1863). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume”, p.16

topic: Confidence, Wealth, Confidence And Strength

I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.

- John Malkovich

topic: Confidence, Ghost, Lacking

In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.

- John of the Cross

topic: Confidence, Enlightenment, Instruction, Tribulation

I know that once I get a good rhythm and a good feel, no one can stop me.

- John Starks

topic: Basketball, Confidence, Rhythm

Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.

- John Tillotson

topic: Confidence, Hurt, Men

Live in your hopes and not in your fears.

- Johnny Majors

topic: Confidence, Courage, Fear