Confidence Quotes

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

George Washington

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. Jr. Stevenson

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

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

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.

Luella F. Phean

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

Samuel Johnson

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Anna Freud

If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.

A. Edward Newton

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

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

George Herbert

The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.

Bertrand Russell V. Delong

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Rosevelt

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Leib Lazarow

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

Rene Descartes

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

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

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

George Washington

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

Doug McLeod

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Dale Carnegie

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Marie Curie

Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self - Confidence and your self - Doubt.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Groucho Marx

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

We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1945

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

George Washington

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

Julius Henry Marx

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.

Jules Feiffe

I have great faith in fools; self - Confidence, my friends call it.

Edgar Allan Poe

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

Arnold Palme

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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.

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

Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

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

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