The 227 Best Confidence Quotes of All Time
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It is a well known fact that confidence is one of the most important keys to success and happiness. Without confidence, you will struggle to carry out the tasks that will help you become successful and have happiness in your life. Pretty simple, really, but sometimes we all need to get back to executing on the basics.
We here at SelfDevelopmentGuide.com decided it would be a great exercise to put together this list of 99 confidence quotes – we hope that they will be very helpful if you are seeking to greatly improve your confidence!
If you are confident in yourself then you will be confident enough to believe that you are capable of achieving great things. There are many wonderful confidence quotes that will help you immensely with improving your confidence and here are just 3 of our favorite confidence quotes:-
1. “The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do”
This is so very true because the hardest thing you can do with no confidence is to feel the fear and do it anyway. Once you have conquered your fears, you will feel your confidence boost sky high. Not only that, but acting in spite of fear gives you a great positive experience when facing other challenges if the future.
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Every time you feel the fear you face it head on – this way you will not only achieve great things and surprise yourself, but you will never again be afraid to try similar things – - and the more you do face your fears, the more confidence you will gain.
2. “Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you are right“
This is another one of the very important confidence quotes that can help you so much in building your confidence, because if you have the confidence to believe you can achieve great things then you no doubt will but without confidence you start to think you cannot achieve and you won’t, only you have the power to think correctly so convince yourself one hundred percent that you can do whatever you put your mind to and you will be amazed at the results.
3. “The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others”
The third and last of our three main confidence quotes is by no means the least because the way you think about yourself is the way other people will think about you and if you have no confidence and treat yourself badly then you will give other people the chance to treat you equally as badly as you would expect them to. You must realise that you are worth your weight in gold and you treat others as you would wish to be treated.
So if you are struggling with your confidence remember the above confidence quotes and try and see yourself as a good person because when you believe you are a good person and can achieve great things then you are well on your way to becoming a confident and successful person.
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Hold your head up high look people in the eye and let them know that you are a person to be valued and treated with the upmost respect. Confidence is one of the greatest assets you can have and therefore confidence itself should be treated with great respect and not taken for granted so that you become over- confident.
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4. “Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.”
- Stan Smith
5. “Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.”
- William J. H. Boetcker
6. “Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.”
- Barbara Walters
7. “Humility is attentive patience.”
- Simone Weil
8. “The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else.”
- Roy L. Smith
9. “A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
- Mark Twain
10. “Believe that you can whip the enemy, and you have won half the battle.”
- General J. E. B. Stuart
11. “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
12. “People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.”
- Edna Ferber
13. “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.”
- Monica Baldwin
14. “Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.”
- Channing Pollock
15. “The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball-the further I am rolled, the more I gain.”
- Susan B. Anthony
16. “The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance.”
- Gladys Taber
17. “It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.”
- Brigitte Bardot
18. “Oh, yes. I’d do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.”
- Susan B. Anthony
19. “I’m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.”
- Elizabeth Arden
20. “It is sad to grow old, but nice to ripen.”
- Brigitte Bardot
21. “Maturity is coming to terms with that other part of yourself.”
- Dr. Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse
22. “Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.”
- Ben Jonson
23. “The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.”
- Timothy Radcliffe
24. “Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.”
- Timothy Radcliffe
25. “To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.”
- Timothy Radcliffe
26. “I think that if my kids are completely convinced of God’s unfailing love for them, whether they fail or not, they’ll have confidence to persevere in life.”
- Amy Grant
27. “By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don’t hesitate.”
- Joseph Epstein
28. “Confidence doesn’t come out of nowhere. It’s a result of something… hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.”
- Roger Staubach
29. “Confidence and superiority: It’s the usual fundamentalist stuff: I’ve got the truth, and you haven’t.”
- Jeanette Winterson
30. “Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.”
- Roger Staubach
31. “When you’re expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you’re the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence.”
- Scott Hamilton
32. “It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.”
- Lillian Hellman
33. “It’s not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can’t live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn’t describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.”
- Michael Korda
34. “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
35. “I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.”
- Arsenio Hall
36. “Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say and it’s true, I do have a certain fondness for women that have dark hair.”
- Wentworth Miller
37. “The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.”
- Arthur Erickson
38. Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.
- Diana Black
39. Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.
- William Shakespeare
40. The nice thing about egotists is that they don’t talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper
41. There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.
- Helen Hunt Jackson
42. 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
43. In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
- Marya Mannes
44. It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it is ridiculous to show it to others.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
45. If a man doesn’t delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders, how is all life to become important to him?
- Sherwood Anderson
46. Self-esteem isn’t everything; it’s just that there’s nothing without it.
- Gloria Steinem
47. It is often the case with finer natures, that when the fire of the spirit dies out with increasing age, the power of the intellect is unaltered or increased.
- Margaret Gatty
48. I’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often, but I’m well preserved.
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
49. The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.
- Madeleine L’Engle
50. Perhaps middle age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
51. Age is totally unimportant. The years are really irrelevant. It’s how you cope with them.
- Shirley Lord
52. As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
- Johann von Goethe
53. It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
- Judith Martin
54. Humility is like underwear, essential but indecent if it shows.
- Helen Nielsen
55. 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.
- Jane O’Reilly
56. I’m glad I never feel important, it does complicate life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
57. More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than by defeat.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
58. Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
- George Sand
59. I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.
- Gertrude Stein
60. Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
- Anne-Sophie Swetchine
61. Be always sure you’re right, then go ahead.
- Davy Crockett
62. I always thought I should be treated like a star.
- Madonna
63. Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
- Thomas Merton
64. The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.
- Nikki Giovanni
65. Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
- Vince Lombardi
66. “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
67. Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller
68. To be confident is to act in faith.
- Bernard Bynion
68. Skill and confidence are an uncon-quered army.
- George Herbert
69. To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything.
- Joan Didion
70. It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.
- Lillian Hellman
71. I’ve always seen myself as a winner, even as a kid. If I hadn’t, I just might have gone down the drain a couple of times. I’ve got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I’m in it ’til the end of the race.
- Truman Capote
72. Success doesn’t necessarily make you a happy person … but without the confidence and security that comes from being totally happy, I believe you cannot achieve your true potential and ultimate success.
- Jinger Heath
73. Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.
- Bertrand Russell
74. Tis the ignorant who boast.
- Carmen Sylva
75. Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
- Margaret Thatcher
76. There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca
77. If arrogance is the heady wine of youth, then humility must be its eternal hangover.
- Helen Van Slyke
78. Conquer but never triumph.
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
79. Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything worth doing.
- Frederick W. Robertson
80. Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
- Stan Smith
81. Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.
- William J. H. Boetcker
82. Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
- Barbara Walters
83. Humility is attentive patience.
- Simone Weil
84. The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else.
- Roy L. Smith
85. Believe that you can whip the enemy, and you have won half the battle.
- General J. E. B. Stuart
86. As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
- William Hazlitt
87. Such to me is the new image of aging; growth in self, and service for all mankind.
- Ethel Percy Andrus
88. There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
- Sophia Loren
89. I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened.
- Flannery O’Connor
90. Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
- Florida Scott-Maxwell
91. We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience, almost beyond our capacity at times, but something to be carried high.
- Florida Scott-Maxwell
92. Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
- Jacqueline Bisset
93. Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
- Muriel Spark
94. Pride … is the direct appreciation of oneself.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
95. Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
- Margaret Fuller
96. Faith in oneself … is the best and safest course.
- Michelangelo
97. Strong people don’t need strong leaders.
- Ella Baker
98. Might, could, would-they are contemptible auxiliaries.
- George Eliot
99. You’ve got to take the initiative and play your game … confidence makes the difference.
- Chris Evert
100. Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.
- Penelope Keith
101. Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
102. Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
103. I felt a comedy ego beginning to grow, which gave me the courage to begin tentatively looking into myself for material.
- Joan Rivers
104. My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.
- Wilma Rudolph
105. If there be a faith that can move mountains, it is faith in one’s own power.
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
106. They are able because they think they are able.
- Virgil
107. Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.
- Bruce Barton
108. Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks on great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Cicero
109. 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
110. 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
111. They conquer who believe they can.
- John Dryden
112. The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.
- Kathleen Turner
113. 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
114. 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.
- B. C. Forbes
115. Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead to sovereign power.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
116. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller
117. Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
- John Milton
118. Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.
- Stephen Spender
119. Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
- Andrew Carnegie
120. 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
121. I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.
Paul Wellstone
122. I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
Edgar Allan Poe
123. If you’re a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that’s dangerously close to arrogance.
Trevor Nunn
124. It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
Giacomo Casanova
125. Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
Thomas Carlyle
126. One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
Arthur Ashe
127. The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
128. The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us.
- Arlene Raven
129. 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.
- Raquel Welch
130. 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.
- Emily Post
131. 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
132. Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
- Anthony Trollope
133. Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
- Erich Fromm
134. He can inspire a group only if he himself is filled with confidence and hope of success.
- Floyd V. Filson
135. 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.
- Arthur Dobrin
136. Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
- Honore de Balzac
137. Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.
- Robert Johnson
138. Oftentimes nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right and well-managed.
- John Milton
139. Confidence … is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.
- John Dewey
140. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.
- Arnold Bennett
141. 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
142. 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
143. Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It’s the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
- Ann Landers
144. 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
145. A great figure or physique is nice, but it’s self-confidence that makes someone really sexy.
Vivica Fox
146. As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.
Alan Thicke
147. Brooke and I share some similarities. We’re both passionate, fiercely loyal people. But she is far more outlandish than I’d ever be, particularly with her body and her sexuality. Brooke has made herself weak for men – she only gained self-confidence from their attention.
Sophia Bush
148. Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
Channing Pollock
149. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
150. Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
Larry David
151. Experts say that if children can’t read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system.
Dirk Kempthorne
152. Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
Jack Welch
153. Humor comes from self-confidence.
Rita Mae Brown
154. I developed a great sense of self-confidence when I was very young.
Christie Hefner
155. 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
156. 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
157. The kind of commitment I find among the best performers across virtually every field is a single-minded passion for what they do, an unwavering desire for excellence in the way they think and the way they work. Genuine confidence is what launches you out of bed in the morning, and through your day with a spring in your step.
Jim Collins
158. It has often and confidently been asserted, that man’s origin can never be known: Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles Darwin
159. Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich. The key, I think, is confidence. Confidence and an unshakable belief it can be done and that you are the one to do it.
Felix Dennis
160. It’s like my mother says: I have a gift of the words. Maybe I’m charming. But it is a gift. I have seven brothers, and they’re introverts. I’m an extrovert. I love people.
Mr T
161. 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
162. A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.
Brian Tracy
163. When you allow yourself to begin to dream big dreams, creatively abandon the activities that are taking up too much of your time, and focus your inward energies on alleviating your main constraints, you start to feel an incredible sense of power and confidence.
Brian Tracy
164. Confidence can get you where you want to go, and getting there is a daily process. It’s so much easier when you feel good about yourself, your abilities and talents.
Donald Trump
165. Even if you haven’t encountered great success yet, there is no reason you can’t bluff a little and act like you have. Confidence is a magnet in the best sense of the word. It will draw people to you and make your daily life.. and theirs.. a lot more pleasant.
Donald Trump
166. The old saying that “success breeds success” has something to it. It’s that feeling of confidence that can banish negativity and procrastination and get you going the right way.
Donald Trump
167. All you need is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
Mark Twain
168. Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Colin Powell
169. Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
Joe Paterno
170. When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
Joe Paterno
171. You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you’ll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.
Joe Paterno
172. Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
Brian Tracy
173. Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
174. 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
175. The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
James Madison
176. Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
James Madison
177. It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
Rene Descartes
178. Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.
Andrew Jackson
179. 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
180. Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.
Pope John Paul II
181. With confidence, you have won before you have started.
Marcus Garvey
182. If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
Marcus Garvey
183. I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.
Robert E. Lee
184. 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 must be attained.
Marie Curie
185. 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.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
186. Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
187. Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
Tennessee Williams
188. Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
Michel de Montaigne
189. The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
Michel de Montaigne
190. Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
Michel de Montaigne
191. 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.
Adlai E. Stevenson
192. Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.
Robert Collier
193. But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.
Ho Chi Minh
194. I’ve had confidence in myself all along. It was just a matter of getting the pieces back in place.
Dale Earnhardt
195. 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
196. In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.
Carter G. Woodson
197. When I wasn’t as attractive as I am now, I suffered at the hands of cruel children and their taunts until I realised that confidence and a bit of aesthetic care can overcome that.
Johnny Vegas
198. And I might add the confidence with which distracted persons do oftentimes, when they are awake, think, they see black fiends in places, where there is no black object in sight without them.
Robert Boyle
199. Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.
William Pitt
200. We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.
Lester B. Pearson
201. The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people.
Paulo Freire
202. Beauty is grace and confidence. I’ve learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.
Lindsay Lohan
203. Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.
Thomas Kempis
204. And I love kick boxing. It’s a lot of fun. It gives you a lot of confidence when you can kick somebody in the head.
Alicia Keys
205. I’ve always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
Eddie Murphy
206. In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.
Gerald R. Ford
207. 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.
Orison Swett Marden
208 As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
William Hazlitt
209. I didn’t have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.
Meryl Streep
210. Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
211. I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you’ve done.
Robert Downey, Jr.
212. I didn’t have that much confidence. Maybe it looks that way. I’m glad it does.
Elia Kazan
213. Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.
Virgil
214. Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
Karl Barth
215. With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you’ve fallen into good hands – someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.
Saul Bellow
216. 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
217. We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
Jacob Bronowski
218. It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.
Arthur Eddington
219. I was a pretty insecure kid, didn’t have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence.
Sarah McLachlan
220. It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.
Ivan Pavlov
221. There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.
Johnny Unitas
222. I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don’t who will?
Johnny Unitas
223. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.
Johnny Unitas
224. I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
Francois Rabelais
225. I wouldn’t describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that – the ghosts you chase you never catch.
John Malkovich
226. I’m fairly competent as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don’t have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with ‘It’s a masterpiece,’ and then tell me what you think could be changed.
Tim Robbins
227. 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
