Confidence Quotes

Like all vain men, he had moments of unreasonable confidence.

The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

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

William Jennings Bryan

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

In forty hours I shall be in battle with little information and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions but I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that with God's help I shall make them and make them right.

General George S. Patton

Be always sure you're right then go ahead.

I always thought I should be treated like a star.

Madonna

The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Glamour is assurance. It is a kind of knowing that you are all right in every way mentally and physically and in appearance and that whatever the occasion or the situation you are equal to it.

Marlene Dietrich

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

To be confident is to act in faith.

Skill and confidence are an uncon-quered army.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Andrew Carnegie

The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.

François de La Rochefoucauld

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

Anthony Trollope

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem the more likely one will treat others with respect kindness and generosity. People who do not experience self-love have little or no capacity to love others.

Nathaniel Branden

Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast a man consumed with earnestness of purpose with confidence in his powers with faith in the worthwhileness of his endeavors.

Self-reverence self-knowledge self-control. These three alone lead to sovereign power.

Alfred

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

Stephen Spender

Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself and you begin to follow your own instincts-only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied and when you are other people tend to be satisfied by what you do.

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought and not as many of those who worry about their shortcomings believe an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

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

He can inspire a group only if he himself is filled with confidence and hope of success.

Floyd V. Filson

A good sweat with the blood pounding through my body makes me feel alive revitalized. I gain a sense of mastery and assurance. I feel good about myself. Then I can feel good about others.

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

Honoré de Balzac

Measure yourself by your best moments not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.

Oftentimes nothing profits more than self-esteem grounded on what is just and right and well-managed.

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

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Our self-conceit sustains and always must sustain us.

Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures ... they are the weakest however strong who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

Christian Bovee

Faith in oneself ... is the best and safest course.

Might could would-they are contemptible auxiliaries.

You've got to take the initiative and play your game ... confidence makes the difference.

Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.

I felt a comedy ego beginning to grow which gave me the courage to begin tentatively looking into myself for material.

My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

If there be a faith that can move mountains it is faith in one's own power.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

They are able because they think they are able.

Virgil

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.

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

Cicero

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

Sir John Gielgud

I've never had a humble opinion in my life. If you're going to have one why bother to be humble about it?

Joan Baez

They conquer who believe they can.

The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.

Kathleen Turner

Women who are confident of their abilities are more likely to succeed than those who lack confidence even though the latter may be much more competent and talented and industrious.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.

Frances Ridley Havergal

Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Old age is that night of life as night is the old age of day. Still night is full of magnificence and for many it is more brilliant than the day.

Anne-Sophie Swetchine

Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.

Don't buy the garbage that you're over the hill at fifty. This country makes such a big thing about age particularly if you're a woman. What I think is relevant is your experience what you have to offer. I hope people will recognize that and keep going.

I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.

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