Confidence Quotes

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

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

Julius Henry Marx

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

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

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

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Self - Confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

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 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

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

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

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

I have great faith in fools - - Self confidence my friends call it.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Helen Kelle

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Charles Darwin

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

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

Doug McLeod

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

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

Alice Walke

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.

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

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

Joe Paterno

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

Rene Descartes

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

Baruch Spinoza

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Mark Twain

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

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

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

Abraham Maslow

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

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

Johnson

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

George Washington

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.

Eleanor Rosevelt