Famous Quotes & Sayings

All the evidence on consumer confidence would tell us that all spending on big-ticket items is liable to plummet in the next month or two.

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.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

You'll have to learn that public life takes a lot of sweat; but it doesn't need to worry you. You won't always be right, but you mustn't suffer from being wrong. That's what kills people like us.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

George Foreman

Everybody wants to be somebody. The thing you have to do is give them confidence they can. You have to give a kid a dream.

Johnny Unitas

There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

Johnny Vegas

When I wasn't as attractive as I am now, I suffered at the hands of cruel children and their taunts until I realised that confidence and a bit of aesthetic care can overcome that.

John Churton Collins

No one who deserves confidence ever solicits it.

Jack Welch

Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence. Legitimate self-confidence is a winner. The true test of self-confidence is the courage to be open—to welcome change and new ideas regardless of their source. Self-confident people aren't afraid to have their views challenged. They relish the intellectual combat that enriches ideas.

The employment picture remains fairly grim, and that's having a dampening effect on measures of consumer confidence. And we have higher energy prices, which is another drag on consumer confidence and a 'tax' on consumer spending.

The evidence was sufficient for us. We no longer have confidence in the Ugandan program management unit.

Jeb Bush

The emergency operations folks are doing their job, and they do it well here, irrespective of what people write, ... I've got total confidence in that at the end of this, our reputations will be intact. ... We've worked our asses off.

The enhanced security features in this series of notes help ensure that U.S. currency will continue to represent the trust, value and confidence that people all over the world have grown to rely on and expect.

Dwane Casey

The guys had lost confidence a little bit. I thought we got it back today.

Brian Elliott

The guys count on you to be that wall and I think fortitude goes into that. You just want to exude that confidence so the guys can get the job done in front of you and they don't have to worry about anything else.

The guys are really positive. They've got confidence in me. I've just got to get confidence in myself, and we'll be all right. It doesn't feel too good. I feel like I let my team down and the fans down.

The guys are really excited, fired up and energetic. They have confidence in themselves and we feel we are in a good position.

The guys are doing a nice job and they keep battling. We're just in a little defensive funk right now. It's more mentally than any thing. They just have to keep their confidence levels up there.

Ken Whisenhunt

The guy won 13 or 14 games for us, so obviously, your confidence level in him is much higher. He's been so diligent in how he's prepared and how he's studied. If there's a route we want to put in, he now understands the concept, and it can be successful. That's the exciting part.

Lawrence Summers

The Harvard Crimson did such a good job defending me when I was in trouble, I have full confidence that it can defend the institutional principles of the Ivy League.

The guy has the most talent I've ever seen in one body. Once he gets back 100 percent healthy, that confidence will shoot up and everything will fall into place for him." ()

Maya Angelou

I'm young as morning and fresh as dew. Everybody loves me and so do you.

May Sinclair

if you don't believe in yourself, you'll have some difficulty in making other people believe in you.

Jonathan Swift

I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.

Og Mandino

If our lives are truly plans of God, someone had better call a meeting soon to remind us, once more, what great miracles we really are.

Orison Swett Marden

Be larger than your task.

Orison Swett Marden

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

Orison Swett Marden

There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

Jim Tressel

These kids are competitive; I thought the hitting and enthusiasm (on defense) was good. But real confidence happens over time. Perhaps we made a small step in that regard. These kids want to be good and uphold the tradition of excellent Ohio State defense.

These games mean a lot to us especially for guys who normally don't play to get their confidence.