Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Bacon

Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

George Santayana

The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence

George Santayana

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

George Michael

I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song.

George Thorogood

Not to this extent but from day one I had an awful lot of confidence when I got started.

Frank Robinson

I haven't seen a player in this game, as long as I've been in it, that can't be pitched to... Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out.

Hopefully that will have a good showing and then people will get confidence back into Thai equity again. I'm quite skeptical about anything that's government or politically sensitive.

Hopefully it?s only up from here. I don?t know if it?s totally sunk in that I?m playing in the NHL, but I?m playing a lot and it?s helped out and that?s the same for the other young guys. We had a great experience last year with the Calder Cup run and now we have a lot of confidence and it?s working out.

Ron Howard

Hoop can actually play. If he was to get in the game early in the first half, you wouldn't see any drop-off at all. He understands the game and we've got a lot of confidence in him.

Chauncey Billups

He tore the kid's confidence apart. It was tough for him to recover. ... The kid has unbelievable talent.

He's wrestling real well. He's wrestling on the offensive. He just has a lot of confidence right now.

Bryant McKinnie

He's won a Super Bowl. I have confidence in Brad, but I'm not going to say for the next three years.

GDP numbers could surprise a little to the upside, and that may be why the Fed said what it did. Confidence numbers could also be surprising, in light of recent reports.

Jennifer James

Gary has definitely instilled a lot of confidence in the team this year.

Get him back there, be a little more successful, enjoy it again, get his confidence back up, work on the things he needs to work on, then we'll see where we go from there.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Jeanette Winterson

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

Jeannette Walls

I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.

Georges Danton

Boldness, and again boldness, and always boldness!

Sergey Lavrov

Generally and in principle when confidence in the Iranian nuclear program is re-established ... we could come back to the possible implementation of the right that Iran has to develop a nuclear energy sector full scale.

For no other reason than confidence it's a big night for me, ... I've never had three hits in a game and that gives me a lot of confidence.

Erica Jong

You reach a point in life where you realize that you might as well do what you need to do, because your being loved or not being loved is really a function of the people you encounter and not of yourself. That is an immensely liberating insight.

Eoin Colfer

Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.

Pat White

But I have confidence in our guys. They showed what they can do last season.

Before the out, I was looking at first base. It's great for a young player to have that kind of confidence in himself to make that play.

Hannibal Buress

Whenever I eat at a restaurant I never put the napkin in my lap. People say, 'Hannibal, why don't you put the napkin in your lap?' Because I believe in myself. I believe in my ability to not spill food in my pants 'cause I'm a goddamn adult. And I've mastered the art of getting food from my plate to my mouth without messing up my jeans. You need to believe in yourself, too and get your life together, that's for babies. Have some confidence in your eating abilities and hand/eye coordination.

Ari Fleischer

high confidence that there is not an issue here.

He's really starting to take over offensively. He's willing to take the pressure shots and getting more confident with each one.

Jack Nicklaus

Confidence is believing in your own ability, knowing what you have to do to win. My confidence was developed through preparation.

Last week was good for my confidence. I'm in really, really good shape and I'm healthy. And when I'm healthy, I improve a lot.

I think confidence is higher. There's a sense of 'What are we worried about now?' because we got through the rise in interest rates, the election, we're dealing with the energy prices. I think people are feeling better.

That does help our confidence and make us feel better about our performances.

I think this team has a different mentality after the two wins we just picked up at home. You can just feel the difference with the guys. Our confidence is returning and that's something that is going to be very important for us to get a couple of road victories this last week.