Confidence Quotes

I could be stranded in any town in the United States with ten cents and within an hour make $20 with the shell game.

Anything I want comes into place.

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

I wouldn’t say I’m a ball hog. I’m a shooter. I don’t necessarily hog the ball, but I put them up though. I definitely much rather shoot it than pass it. That’s just how I am.

Hope is the power that gives a person the confidence to step out and try.

To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.

Confidence equals contentment with self; contentment is knowing you have all you need for the present circumstances.

Confidence allows you to progress in something you're attempting to accomplish, whether it's playing basketball or baseball or whether it's trying to succeed in business.

There is no week, nor day, nor hour, when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their supreme confidence in themselves, and lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. Tyranny may always enter—there is no charm or bar against it.

Remember that the more you know, the less you fear.

Never lead your soldiers to battle if you have not first confirmed their spirit and known them to be without fear and ordered; and never test them except when you see that they hope to win.

Instead of giving in to cynicism and division, let's move forward with the confidence and optimism and unity that define us as a people.

Maybe at the same time as I'm more confident today, I'm also more humble.

If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.

Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? "No," I said, "I can't be mad because nobody's put me away; therefore I'm a genius." Genius is a form of madness and we're all that way. But I used to be coy about it, like me guitar playing. But if there's such a thing as genius - I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care.

When you have a well developed body and you're confident, you see people bending your way, wanting to be on your side, wanting to do things for you.

The way you look on the outside has a definite bearing on how you feel and see yourself on the inside.

I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it.

Every win, regardless a good or bad one, gives you more confidence.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.

One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.

With vision there is no room to be frightened. No reason for intimidation. It's time to march forward! Let's be confident and positive!

I didn't mind being thought of as dumb. I knew I wasn't.

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

You defeat defeatism with confidence.

My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.

Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?

[People] are looking for some means of control and what that means is is that the politics in all of our countries is gonna require us to manage technology and global integration and all these demographic shifts in a way that makes people feel more control, that gives them more confidence in their future.

I don't like myself, I'm crazy about myself.

Confidence is a characteristic of a positive attitude. The greatest achievers and leaders remain confident regardless of circumstances.

I set out to become a comedian, and I said in order to do that the first thing I'll do is become a disc jockey and know my pop music. I like it, my voice is good, and I can start out getting confidence without an audience in front of me.

But even though she was attractive, there was something else about her that caught his eye. She was intelligent, he could sense that right away, and confident, too, as if she were able to move through life on her own terms. To him, these were the things that really mattered. Without them, beauty was nothing.

Be the fearless girl that everyone knows would dare to do anything.

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

If y'all fresh to death, then I'm deceased.

I'm not afraid to look like an idiot on TV.

There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

I know If I score we're going to win the match.

When we can identify a problem and face the problem with confidence and enthusiasm, the solution is on the way.

When I was 15 years old I felt totally confident I would become a world champion and the greatest bodybuilder in the world. The same was true of show business - I knew that one day I would make more money than anyone else in the industry and I did. For that you need the willingness to work and do everything it takes to make the vision turn into reality.

Cats invented self-esteem; there is not an insecure bone in their body.

Once I get the ball, you're at my mercy. There is nothing you can say or do about it. I own the ball.

Learn to hide your need and show your skill.

With silly stuff, it's seventy-five percent confidence. I always tell people that it's because I'm nervous about getting that next laugh and I need to hear it. I always want to condense a joke

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?

There wasn't a time where I felt fearful that I couldn't make the best decisions possible.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I'm arrogant, vain, and whatever. That's all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

What if you're Gaudi and you know you're the best architect and everyone is saying that you're saying you're the best architect the wrong way?

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.