Confidence Quotes
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
Self - Confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.Samuel Johnson
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence - - And then success is sure.Mark Twain
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 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
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.Anna Freud
Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.William Pitt
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.Lao - Tzu
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 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
The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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
I have nothing but confidence in you, and very little of that.Julius Henry Marx
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 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
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.Rene Descartes
Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self - Confidence and your self - Doubt.Kahlil Gibran
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.George Herbert
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
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
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
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
We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help when in need.Epicurus
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.Joe Paterno
I have great faith in fools; self - Confidence, my friends call it.Edgar Allan Poe
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.George Washington
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
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
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
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
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.Eleanor Roosevelt
There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.Cornelius Tacitus
I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow creatures.Basil W. Maturin
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 in something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.Marie Curie
Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.Arnold Palme
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.
I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence.Doug McLeod
