Confidence Quotes

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

Groucho Marx

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Helen Kelle

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

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

Charles Hodge

Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.

Unknown

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

Rosalynn Carte

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

Hasidic Saying

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self - Confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

Arnold Bennett

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

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

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao - Tzu

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

Leib Lazarow

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

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 grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

George Washington

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

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

There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.

Cornelius Tacitus

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty - One, little did I suspect that I should be at forty - Nine, what I now am.

Samuel Johnson

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help when in need.

Epicurus

Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.

Bourke Cockran

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

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

Johnson

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

Peter T. McIntyre

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

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

William Pitt

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

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

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

George Washington

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Doug McLeod

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

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

Joe Paterno

Self - Confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk - Running and chance - Taking are the only ways to catch it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

Baruch Spinoza