Confidence Quotes - Page 3

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

Humility is like underwear essential but indecent if it shows.

The more important the title the more self-important the person the greater the amount of time spent on the Eastern shuttle the more suspicious the man and the less vitality in the organization.

I'm glad I never feel important it does complicate life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

More people are ruined by victory I imagine than by defeat.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

Anne-Sophie Swetchine

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything.

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long even if it is the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one.

Louisa May Alcott

People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.

What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.

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

Channing Pollock

Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.

Self-love my liege is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

Lucille S. Harper

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

Helen Hunt Jackson

Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt and limps off the field piteous all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another.

Helen Hunt Jackson

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

La Rochefoucauld

Society is built upon trust.

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

George Washington

Insecurity kills more dreams than failure ever will.

If you mean your words, people who lust over your lovely ways won't dare to reject you.

Auliq-Ice

If you know something to be trueSay it onceThose who can, will receive itOnly the foolish believe they can justify a truth to a court of foolsHonor the truthFor even before a just judgeA lie can be proven to be credibleOn the other handTruth will never require a woman or man's justificationIt can stand aloneWhether torn and ridiculedTruth standsEven after all has been stripped away

Gregory C. Warner

What others think of you doesn't matter as much as what you think of yourself.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If there is no one who is perfect,So there is no one better than you

Mohammed Sekouty

An insecure person will attempt to make you think that your strengths are weaknesses so that you can also feel insecure.

Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

Faith is never blind when others see it in our actions.

Charles F. Glassman

When we quit focusing on the wrong in the past or the uncertainty of the future, we get to monitor and determine our emotional states, as we enjoy and surrender to our present moment with confidence that we shall be led to our next destination.

Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

I can't say enough how important is the spiritual lifeto know God is with you all the timegives you confidence

Self-confident people are mindful about spending their time, energy, and interests on things that truly matter.

Get outside your comfort zone. Stretch beyond your norm and try new things.

Set goals to create a clear sense of purpose and direction.

Embrace change and practice flexibility. It will make you more agile in adapting to new people and situations.

Dress confidently in clothes that make you feel great about yourself. When you look better you feel better.

If you want to appear more confident—speak slowly, articulately, clearly, and deliberately. Communicating with clarity will not only help you build more confidence in yourself, but it will inspire respect from others.

Use your body language and posture to project confidence. Shift your physiology into a more powerful pose or position and your mindset will follow.

Think and act positively by focusing on the positives in yourself, other people, and situations.

Self-confident people take the initiative to move forward in the direction of their dreams.

Practice positive and affirming self-talk.

Allow people to walk all over your carpet, not all over you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Do not underrate yourself trying to be somebody else.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Insecurities make girls believe they don't have voices and they can't say what they need to say. The more they know the importance of their voices and gain confidence, the better chances of greatness the world will have.

Posture reflects your attitude.

Cindy Ann Peterson

My hope fuels my determination to overcome any difficulty.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Fake it till you feel it

A hero is defined by what he or she can do, not by what he or she cannot do.

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.

Earl Gray Stevens

You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.

Elusive success is not the same as failure.

Fighting to fit in. Confidence is paper thin.

Fake confidence on the outside often trumps truthful turmoil on the inside.

Rob Lowe

…It's as if they actually think that what other people think of them somehow doesn't matter. I mean, I know we're all supposed to believe that, but obviously, none of us actually do. And nor should we, because it does! It does matter! And the people who genuinely believe it doesn't tend to be the very people who ought to care most what other people think of them, because what the other people are thinking is, 'No, actually, I don't think the Chinese are "up to something,"' or, 'You should use mouthwash,' or, 'Your mania for the collective socialization of agriculture will surely cause the deaths of millions,' or, 'Forty cats is too many cats.

I think my reputation will look after itself," Holmes said. "If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding.

Anthony Horowitz

Self-doubt inflicts the deepest wounds.

Just because you're from a small town doesn't mean that you're small. Don't ever think anyone's more important than you are or has more valid experiences.

Gwendolyn Heasley

Sometimes you just know... And then it doesn't even seem scary. Just certain and joyful. Like a deep stream, flowing steady and strong, jumping and splashing and churning as it passes around and over the land in which it is grounded. And for this knowing, and flowing, I am grateful.

Real confidence has a realistic view of itself. It knows what it is capable of and not capable of. Real confidence does not need to overcompensate for anything, it doesn’t have to try harder to be more than what it already is. Real confidence does not beat itself up when it makes a mistake. Real confidence is secure enough to let someone else take the credit for something, without losing its own identity. Real confidence is humble. Real confidence recognizes its weaknesses and limitations, and is secure enough to admit when it is wrong."'Living With Confidence: From Fear To Love

It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

It’s well to have such a comfortable assurance regarding the worth of those we love. I only wish you may not find your confidence misplaced.

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