Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nathaniel Branden

If you face life without confidence in your own powers, you succumb too easily to setbacks and adversity; you lack the will to persevere.

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.

Joe Paterno

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

Eric Thomas

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.

John McCain

The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let's extend the tax - the existing tax cuts. And then let's give some more tax breaks to small businesses and large. And then maybe the American people will have some confidence.

John Haggai

Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.

John Osborne

Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years.

John Dewey

Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.

Leo Tolstoy

Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

Lester B. Pearson

We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.

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.

Lauren Bacall

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Confidence is a fine trait. Over-confidence isn't.

Lionel Blue

If a dish doesn't turn out right, change the name and don't bat an eyelid. A fallen souffle is only a risen omelette. It depends on the self-confidence with which you present it.

Lindsey Vonn

I never felt sidelined, I was supported by my friends, my family and my team. I always knew I could do it. I had confidence in myself.

Lindsey Vonn

Today it was win or lose. But my victory yesterday and the downhill globe boosted my confidence. My record in Cortina was also a liberation.

Lord Byron

As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an epitaph Or any other thing that’s false Before you trust in critics.

Lord Mountbatten

The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions.

Lord Chesterfield

We are as often duped by diffidence as by confidence.

Major Taylor

I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing his level best to win, always received an ovation from the gathering.

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.

John Lothrop Motley

Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.

Jim Rohn

To have an incredible increase in self esteem, all you have to do is start doing some little something. You don't have to do spectacularly dramatic things for self esteem to start going off the scale. Just make a commitment to any easy discipline. Then another one and another one.

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.

T. Harv Eker

If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.

T. Harv Eker

Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don't let these feelings stop them.

Thomas Jefferson

I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general.

Vanessa Hudgens

Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.

Robert Ringer

If you are prepared, then you are able to feel confident.