#Confidence Quotes

“Boldness be my friend.”

“I can call spirits from the vasty deep.”

“Your wisdom is consum'd in confidence. Do not go forth to-day.”

“The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute.”

“A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.”

“Danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he. We are two lions litter’d in one day, and I the elder and more terrible.”

“Though your views are in straight antagonism to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely thatwhich all think, and in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt.”

“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going”

“Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.”

“If you believe in yourself and have passion, you can succeed.”

“Timid salesmen have skinny kids.”

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

“When your image improves, your performance improves.”

“It's impossible to consistently behave in a manner inconsistent with how we see ourselves. We can do very few things in a positive way if we feel negative about ourselves.”

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

“The way you see yourself today will affect your performance today.”

“If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.”

“Self trust is the essence of heroism.”

“When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.”

“To build your self image, you need to join the smile, firm handshake and compliment club.”

“Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.”

“The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.”

“After every mistake, we need to understand that we can look back and learn-so that we can move forward with confidence and avoid making the same mistake again.”

“When your confidence goes up, your competence goes up the same time.”

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

“When I was asked to make the film, I decided that it was like taking on a new career at the age of sixty-eight. I've never acted before. And taking direction is not something I'm very good at. I've always known who I am and what I was going to do, and I've always just done it.”

“Only the insecure strive for security.”

“Motivation fuels the attitude that builds the Confidence necessary to sustain the Persistence.”

“There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right. That is the only way to deserve and to win the confidence of our great people in these days of trouble.”

“Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral loose, and free-floating - these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything.”

“We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.”

“I have so much confidence in the good sense of man, and his qualifications for self-government, that I am never afraid of the issue where reason is left free to exert her force.”

“Ability is all right but if it is not backed up by honesty and public confidence you will never be a successful person. The best a man can do is to arrive at the top in his chosen profession. I have always maintained that one profession is deserving of as much honor as another provided it is honorable.”

“We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.”

“I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it ever since.”

“Have no fear of the future. Let us go forward into its mysteries, tear away the veils which hide it from our eyes, and move onwards with confidence and courage.”

“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.”

“Psychology saves us from mistakes. It makes us more clear as to what we are about. We gain confidence in respect to any method which we are using as soon as we believe that it has theory as well as practice at its back.”

“Confidence is key. You're not going to put your money - you're not going to leave your money with me unless you're confident I'm going to give it back to you.”

“I am telling folks that the Country as a whole is "Sound," and that all those who's heads are solid are bound to get back into the market again. I tell 'em that this Country is bigger than Wall Street, and if they don't believe it, I show 'em the map.”

“Now I am not unpatriotic, and I want to do my bit, so I hereby offer my services to my President, my country and my friends to do anything, outside of serving on a commission, that I can in this great movement. But you will have to give me some idea of where "confidence" is. And just who you want it restored to.”

“There is something about riding down the street on a prancing horse that makes you feel like something, even when you ain't a thing.”

“If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.”

“You get the most approval when you care the least about it.”

“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.”

“The person with the most certainty in a given situation will influence the other.”

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

“Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.”

“This hour I tell things in confidence/ I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.”

“I lose confidence in other people, all kinds of institutions.”