Confidence Quotes

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

William Pitt

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

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

Peter T. McIntyre

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

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

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

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

Samuel Johnson

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

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 in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.

Unknown

Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Epicurus

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

Marcus Garvey

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

George Herbert

If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose somber shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace.

Fridjof Nansen

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

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

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

Anna Freud

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

Robert Frost

Every small, positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

Alice Walke

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

Arnold Palme

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

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

George Washington

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lao - Tzu

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

Julius Henry Marx

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

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

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

Cornelius Tacitus