Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Rosen

The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.

Beyonce Knowles

Do what you were born to do. You just have to trust yourself.

Bernhard Schlink

Does everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure. Either I felt completely useless, unattractive, and worthless, or that I was pretty much a success, and everything I did was bound to succeed. When I was confident, I could overcome the hardest challenges. But all it took was the smallest setback for me to be sure that I was utterly worthless. Regaining my self-confidence had nothing to do with success...whether I experienced it as a failure or triumph was utterly dependent on my mood.

Eddie Murphy

I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Self-confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk-running and chance-taking are the only ways to catch it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I set out to be the best and I am.

We always have confidence but to have the success that we did on the ground today was a little surprising. The line provided a lot of holes and seams. We did a good job of keeping them guessing.

Gary Bettman

We always had confidence in the game and our fans,

The positive consumer confidence could have been a negative.

The point is that mounting layoffs and weak consumer confidence will keep consumer spending fairly weak.

Kathleen Blanco

We are seeing a show of force. It's putting confidence back in our hearts and in the minds of our people, ... We're going to make it through.

John Danforth

We are pleased with this ruling and look forward to proceeding to the patent phase of our case. We have great confidence in our intellectual property position and are pleased with the opportunity to present our position to a jury.

We started the season with a little setback because we had to have two seniors move to the setter position where they haven't ever played. I know I have the hitters that I can use to run some plays and we're just now getting the confidence in the setters.

We started the season slow, but our intensity and determination have really improved. Once we started winning some games we got our confidence back. Now we know we can do it.

We started the game very well. I don't know that we got timid to let them back in the game. I just think they got their confidence going and they made a run at us. I am just glad that my team got the job done.

We struggled this weekend. We didn't play with any effort or emotion last night and Princeton took advantage. Tonight, we had better effort but our confidence and execution wasn't good enough.

Allen Iverson

We are looking forward to trying to get in the playoffs and make something happen. It's all a matter of confidence and we have that now. We can still make the playoffs, it's all up to us.

Yolanda King

We stood in the sunshine of her being. Through her inexhaustible giving, we learned to give. Through her faith, we learned the confidence of knowing that peace on Earth is inevitable.

We started out making shots, and that gave us confidence. For the most part, we fed off our defense and were able to finish plays.

When you've had as many wins as we've had, our confidence has been up. But they've got a great team. This district is going to be anybody's.

William Shakespeare

Be as just and gracious unto me, As I am confident and kind to thee.

William Shakespeare

A very little little let us do And all is done.

Until we regain a defensive swagger we are going to continue to struggle. It's a mystery to me why we have lost our confidence to play defensive with intensity. Letting another team shoot nearly 60 percent from the field is a tragedy.

Nelly Furtado

It's just kind of empowering when you become a mother. You just get overwhelmed with this new confidence and you feel really in control of your life. It's been beautiful.

We'd like to be winning, but the thing I like about my guys is that they're playing hard and don't quit. I think the win at Shaw helped us get some confidence we can win on the road.

Watching them, they're very well coached, ... The game's at their place and they're playing pretty good right now, so their confidence will be high.

Doug Williams

Watching James do what he did gave me the confidence to pursue my dream. He handled the situation so perfectly.

Pat Burrell

We've been able to get it done, and that's important. That's important to the confidence of this team, knowing we can always come back.

We've been able to get a strong team on the field and confidence comes from that.

We've always said it's about us, and it's about us getting better, ... We've got a lot of confidence right now. We're playing well, the defense is playing unbelievable, and I want to get back out there and keep that going.

We've always had a lot of confidence in their care.

Bob Black

We're going to take this one year at a time. Our kids have a lot of confidence that they can swim fast when they have to.

We're going to hang tough. The majority of it is mental. Once you start winning you get confidence going. You can't get used to losing.