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

George Washington

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

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

Peter T. McIntyre

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

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

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

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self - Confidence.

Robert Frost

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

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

Jules Feiffe

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

Abraham Maslow

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

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

Edgar Allan Poe

Self - Confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

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

Johnson

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

Epicurus

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

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

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

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

Doug McLeod

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.

Roosevelt, Eleano

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

Arnold Palme

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

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

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

William Pitt

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

George Washington

All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to make him privy to all particulars.

Francis Beaumont

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

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

Marcus Garvey

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

Charles Hodge

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

Mark Twain

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 admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

Mark Twain

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

Rene Descartes

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

Anna Freud

If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

Swami Sivanada