Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Feather

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.

Sarah Kay

My self-confidence can be measured out in teaspoons mixed into my poetry, and it still always tastes funny in my mouth.

Wangari Maathai

Disempowerment - whether defined in terms of a lack of self-confidence , apathy, fear, or an inability to take charge of one's own life - is perhaps the most unrecognised problem in Africa today.

Rokia Traore

We need self-confidence in our ability to build Africa. I trust in Mali and I trust in music.

William Ivey Long

At the level at which I work with people, their great talent is paired with great insecurity. Self-doubt is literally the twin of self-confidence. And I have to be there for both.

William Katt

Cooking gives you the ability to grow as a person and to give yourself confidence. You can invite people around, you can sit down and eat together and it makes you feel about ten feet tall because you've done it with your own hands.

Yves Saint Laurent

Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.

Wen Jiabao

Confidence is the most important thing, more important than gold or currency.

Khalil Gibran

Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.

Ivo Daalder

He has become a symbol of our inability to solve the problems in the Balkans. We would like to get rid of him but at the same time we are not willing to take the kind of military and other measures it probably would take to get rid of him.

Michael Showalter

Their unifying characteristic is they're not romantic. They have this inability to recognize the simple romantic needs of their counterpart. They just never know the right thing!

John Devine

The inability to raise prices requires us to take even tougher measures to reduce costs,

Eric Holder

The inability to pass reasonable gun safety laws after the Newtown massacre is something that weighs heavily on my mind.

Paul Feig

I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.

Bernie Siegel

The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves

Alan Watts

What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present

Brian Tracy

Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.

Scott Reed

There's no question that since Katrina, there have been some missteps that have shaped the president's inability to get a message out. These are no one person's fault. But they happened. And now it's time to get back on the offensive.

Rosalind Murray

I think it's apathy that's been fueled by the feeling like you have the inability to change anything in your life.

Yolanda King

To do peace, you must get up off your apathy.

Tony Leon

The inevitable upshot is increased voter apathy and disengagement with the political process.

Mary Williams

It just seems there is more apathy now and the only time people come forward is to complain.

Publilius Syrus

Apathy borders upon folly.

Michael Maddox

Apathy is why we end up with ridiculous laws. People say, 'That is crazy and will never pass,' but then it does.

Emiliano Salinas

Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something.

John Dos Passos

Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension.

David Briggs

There's a lot of investor apathy out there right now, and I don't see any incentive for people to move until the payrolls report. After that, people who are holding out may be willing to get back in.