Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oprah Winfrey

Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion.

Kim Gandy

At this time, with the country's leadership in turmoil and confidence in the government steadily declining, now more than ever we need stability.

B. C. Forbes

Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, man consumed with earnestness of purpose, with confidence in his powers, with faith in the worthwhileness of his endeavors.

Pope Francis

From the peak of Chimborazo (volcano) to the Pacific coast, from the Amazon rainforest to the Galapagos Islands, may you never lose the ability to thank God for what he has done and is doing for you, may you never lose the ability to protect what is small and simple, to care for your children and your elderly, to have confidence in the young, and to be constantly struck by the nobility of your people and the singular beauty of your country.

Phillips Brooks

Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.

Nathaniel Branden

There is no value-judgment more important to a man--no factor more decisive in his psychological development and motivation--than the estimate he passes on himself.

Nathaniel Branden

If we do have realistic confidence ... if we feel secure within ourselves, we tend to experience the world as open to us and to respond appropriately to challenges and opportunities. Self-esteem empowers, energizes, motivates. It inspires us to achieve and allows us to take pleasure and pride in our achievements.

Kylie Minogue

I don't try to be a sex bomb. I am one.

Thomas a Kempis

Whoever puts his confidence in men or in any creature is very foolish.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self trust is the essence of heroism.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

Karl Rove

You may be right that people say: You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy had great rhetoric, sounded good, looked good, but has turned out to be an utter disaster. I want someone where I have confidence and credibility that they're up to the job and that I can trust what they tell me.

Julius Caesar

As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.

Kamisese Mara

Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs.

Kanye West

Come on now! How could you be me and want to be someone else?

Joyce Meyer

Sadly, if we are not confident about our choices, we can easily let other peoples' comments make us feel guilty and ruin the joy we need to experience in life through doing the little things that mean a lot to us.

Louise Hay

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Madeleine Peyroux

Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

I was discouraged about life, discouraged about people being blind, but I don't think I had a day that I ever questioned creativity. There has never been a day like that.

John C. Maxwell

They can't hurt you unless you let them.

The layoff is always hard and we felt as if we were rusty in the first half as well, and it took us a while to get through that. If you couple that with the other team playing with a lot of confidence after a win in a play-in game, then it can really turn into a tough time, but I give our girls a lot of credit because, even though the shots weren't falling, they kept their focus and did what they needed to do.

The consumer confidence (index) this morning was better than expected, and the lack of negative pre-announcements has given people the impression that first-quarter earnings are going to be good.

Epicurus

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

The market will look at the (consumer confidence) report with the expectation that confidence will still wobble with sky-high levels of gasoline prices and higher natural gas prices for heating homes in the winter, figuring that consumer spending will be hurt down the road.

The market still has confidence in economic fundamentals and corporate earnings outlooks, and it isn't questioning those.

Henrik Ibsen

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.

Herschel Walker

Growing up, I started developing confidence in what I felt. My parents helped me to believe in myself. I wasn't the best looking guy, I wasn't the best athlete in the world, but they made me feel good about myself.

Henry Ward Beecher

The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.

John Dryden

Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts

John Dryden

For they conquer who believe they can.

John Malkovich

I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.