Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rainer Maria Rilke

May you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people.

Michelle Obama

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

Madonna Ciccone

I don't take drugs. I never did. All the feelings that drugs are supposed to produce in you - confidence or energy - I can produce naturally.

Lucille Ball

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

Lizz Winstead

By some fluke, my folks forgot to ask me the question most crucial to ensuring a lifetime of self-doubt: 'What if you fail?

Mia Hamm

I was given a tremendous gift in terms of athleticism. Maybe it was because I wasn't so confident in other areas.

Michel de Montaigne

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Michel de Montaigne

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

Michel de Montaigne

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

Michel de Montaigne

I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.

Michel de Montaigne

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

Michel de Montaigne

It needs courage to be afraid.

Marianne Williamson

We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone.

Marianne Williamson

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

Marianne Williamson

We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.

Ted Turner

If you think you're a second-class citizen, you are.

Mignon McLaughlin

Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.

Mignon McLaughlin

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.

Mignon McLaughlin

Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.

Mignon McLaughlin

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

Mitch Albom

Accept who you are; and revel in it.

Paul Gauguin

The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain...

Paris Hilton

No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.

Lillian Hellman

Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation

Lillian Hellman

Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.

Lillian Hellman

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Leverett Saltonstall

I have confidence that the Unitarian Church will steadily grow and will help to sustain many of my fellow citizens in these important days that lie ahead of us.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.

Pablo Picasso

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.

Paul Cezanne

I should have wished to possess the intellectual equilibrium that characterizes you and permits you to achieve without fail the desired end... Chance has not favoured me with an equal self-assurance, it is the only regret I have about things of this earth.

Joe Montana

Confidence is a very fragile thing.

Joe Namath

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.