Confidence Quotes

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

George Washington

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

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

Helen Kelle

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

Rosalynn Carte

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

Samuel Johnson

Self - Confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

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

William Pitt

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

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

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

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

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

Anna Freud

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

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

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

Johnson

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

George Herbert

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

Mark Twain

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

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

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

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

Edgar Allan Poe

Who has confidence in himself will gain the confidene of others.

Leib Lazarow

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

Anna Freud

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

Arnold Palme

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

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

Robert Frost

Tell no one the secret that you want to keep, although he may be worthy of confidence; for no one will be so careful of your secret as yourself.

Saadi, On the Duties of Society

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