Confidence Quotes

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

Charles Darwin

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

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

Epicurus

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.

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

Baruch Spinoza

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

Rene Descartes

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

Helen Kelle

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Johnson

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

Abraham Maslow

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

Groucho 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

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

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

Alice Walke

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.

Joe Namath

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

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

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

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

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

Charles Hodge

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

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

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

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

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

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

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

Samuel Johnson

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

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

Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill - Success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.

Barbara Paley

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

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