quotations about confidence
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, Run to Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership
Ours is the one ever-present voice in our lives. Therefore, it is crucial that our self-talk instill confidence within us and is supportive, not submerging, and that our attitudes toward ourselves help keep our spirits afloat through acceptance and trust. We are our own most important and influential buoy.
SUE PATTON THOELE
The Woman's Book of Confidence
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 GOLDEN
Memoirs of a Geisha
The best way for you to gain confidence is to prepare so well on something ... that there can be little chance to fail.
FRANK CUMMINS LOCKWOOD
Public Speaking Today
Low self-confidence is simply a problem of Awareness. Once you are aware of the Truth about yourself, you will be able to understand why you are the way you are and, most importantly, learn to love and accept yourself.
ROBERT ANTHONY
The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence
Confidence is like an aura; it radiates to your outer being and makes other people gravitate toward that light.
NICOLE SCONIERS
California Schemin'
So my confidence doesn't come from not having any fear. It comes from trusting that in spite of my fear, I'm going to act; I'm going to take one step after another toward my goal.
BARBARA DE ANGELIS
Confidence
Confidence is a good name for what is intended by the term directness. It should not be confused, however, with self-confidence which may be a form of self-consciousness -- or of "cheek." Confidence is not a name for what one thinks or feels about his attitude it is not reflex. It denotes the straightforwardness with which one goes at what he has to do. It denotes not conscious trust in the efficacy of one's powers but unconscious faith in the possibilities of the situation. It signifies rising to the needs of the situation.
JOHN DEWEY
Democracy and Education
If you never struggle with confidence, you obviously are not stretching yourself far enough. You are not pressing to the edge of your abilities. In other words, the only way to never struggle with confidence is to play it safe. Play it known. Play it in a way that you achieve stability, but lose opportunity.
TIMOTHY URSINY
The Confidence Plan
Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.
EOIN COLFER
Artemis Fowl
Quiet confidence is like having your very own spotlight.
CHERYL KIMBALL
Horse Showing for Kids
Self-confidence cannot be totally destroyed, for it is an inbuilt ingredient of our growth and evolution. What happens is that self-confidence is suppressed by the conditioning of the mind by external forces. A negative syndrome is formed. We can overcome this syndrome by taking a strong, positive view of life.
P. C. GANESAN
How to Develop Self Confidence
The pleasure that arises from inward serenity is due to the confidence that one has in one's own inner truth.
YI JING
"Tui: Joy," , The Photographic I Ching
Having confidence is like having the keys to the kingdom.
DAG ALBRIGHT
How to Meet and Pick Up Women
Once men's confidence is thoroughly aroused it is likely to run riot.
GEORGE E. PUTNAM
The American Economic Review, Mar. 1920
Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence. Legitimate self-confidence is a winner. The true test of self-confidence is the courage to be open--to welcome change and new ideas regardless of their source. Self-confident people aren't afraid to have their views challenged. They relish the intellectual combat that enriches ideas.
JACK WELCH
Jack: Straight from the Gut
No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.
PARIS HILTON
attributed, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader
Confidence is you've been on that bull before and you know you're gonna ride 'im.
ANNA DEAVERE SMITH
Letters to a Young Artist
Confidence is keeping your chin up; overconfidence is sticking your neck out.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
If you worry about what people think of you, it's because you have more confidence in their opinion than you have in your own.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes