Confidence Quotes
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
The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.Samuel Johnson
Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny, he thinks he is in the world for something important and it gives him drive and confidence.Benjamin McLane Spock
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
Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.Abraham Maslow
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
I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - True equals - Only when they both have equal confidence.Arthur S. Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.Cornelius Tacitus
Every small, positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.Alice Walke
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence - - And then success is sure.Mark Twain
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
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self - Confidence.Robert Frost
No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage.J. Lawton Collins
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowlege: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.Charles Darwin
Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.Jules Feiffe
The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.Charles Hodge
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
I have nothing but confidence in you, and very little of that.Julius Henry Marx
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
The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.Hasidic Saying
Self - Confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk - Running and chance - Taking are the only ways to catch it.Arnold Schwarzenegger
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
The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non - Material possessions the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man.Paul Sweezy
Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.Samuel Johnson
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.Lao - Tzu
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.George Washington
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
Who has confidence in himself will gain the confidene of others.Leib Lazarow
Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves.Marie Curie
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
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.Baruch Spinoza
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.Anna Freud
I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence.Doug McLeod
