Confidence Quotes

Who has confidence in himself will gain the confidene of others.

Leib Lazarow

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence - - And then success is sure.

Mark Twain

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill - Success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.

Barbara Paley

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

Baltasar Gracian

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.

Peter T. McIntyre

Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.

Unknown

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Charles Darwin

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

Marcus Garvey

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

Mark Twain, Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.

William Pitt

The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I have nothing but confidence in you. And very little of that.

Groucho Marx

Tell no one the secret that you want to keep, although he may be worthy of confidence; for no one will be so careful of your secret as yourself.

Saadi, On the Duties of Society

Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves.

Marie Curie

Confidence is Going after Moby Dick in a rowboat, And taking the tarter sauce with you. A Bullfighter who goes in the ring with mustard on his sword.

Zig Zigla

I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence.

Doug McLeod

The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.

Charles Hodge

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

Joe Paterno

You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it is going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, its always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.

Robert M. Pirsig

The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.

Hasidic Saying

Meet the sunrise with confidence.

Alonzo Newton Benn

The way to develop self - Confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Helen Kelle

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

Erik H. Erikson

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.

Abraham Maslow

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

Brian Adams

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.

Johnson

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

Arnold Palme

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

Joe Namath

Were there but one virtuous man in the world, he would hold up his head with confidence and honor; he would shame the world, and not the world him.

South

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

Ansel Adams

It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.

Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Magazine, May 2004

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Baruch Spinoza

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.

Eleanor Roosevelt