Confidence Quotes
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.Helen Kelle
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
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.Brian Adams
We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help when in need.Epicurus
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
Meet the sunrise with confidence.Alonzo Newton Benn
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
The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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
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
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.George Washington
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.Lao - Tzu
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non - Being is the greatest joy.The Dhammapada
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence then success is sure.Mark Twain
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
Self - Confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.Samuel Johnson
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
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.George Herbert
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
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.George Washington
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.Dale Carnegie
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
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
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
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
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.Rene Descartes
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
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
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
Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self - Confidence and your self - Doubt.Kahlil Gibran
I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence.Doug McLeod
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
Every small, positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.Alice Walke
Who has confidence in himself will gain the confidene of others.Leib Lazarow
Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves.Marie Curie
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
