A Confidence Quotes

#1. A guy who is equipped mentally and educationally doesn't need a confidence check. He is positioned and prepared to GO. Are you?

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

#2. Sometimes you know that you are destined to die, but somehow you are given a parenthesis after the punctuation mark: more years, more time that wasn't meant for you but still was meant for you, a bridge stretching out into the stars, a confidence built of invisible threads, a miracle.

Lene Fogelberg

#3. My theory on Manchester and why it produces the bands it
does is that because the world is willing to listen to
them, it gives the kids a confidence and and a belief that
... what has happened before might happen again. It's something
to aim for.

Jimi Goodwin

#4. Your identity is not equivalent to your biography. There is a place in you where you have never been wounded, where there's a seamlessness in you, and where there is a confidence and tranquility.

John O'Donohue

#5. I thought I was attractive when I shot 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding.' Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them.

Nia Vardalos

#6. It's called a confidence game. Why? Because you give me your confidence? No. Because I give you mine.

David Mamet

#7. When you really believe in God, it gives you a courage, a confidence that enables you to meet the things coming.

Della Reese

#8. I suggest that going to Mars means permanence on the planet - a mission by which we are building up a confidence level to become a two-planet species.

Buzz Aldrin

#9. A confidence that glimmered. Though her station was beneath the head thaumaturge, her posture and faint smile seemed to indicate that she didn't much believe herself to be beneath anyone at all. Levana liked her immediately.

Marissa Meyer

#10. What most people tell you a confidence for is to get something off their chest which hasn't really been on it. They don't necessarily want to hide the truth from you, but they're out to hide it from themselves

Phyllis Bottome

#11. I find it interesting when I look back at songs and it's what I've been thinking and feeling for the past two years. There's some sexual stuff in this record and I'm sometimes like, "Is that too far?" There's a confidence in it. It's over-sharing, but in a really therapeutic way.

Elena Tonra

#12. When you appoint someone, you appoint somebody because of their character, their convictions, their abilities. And not because you have a belief, a confidence, in a foreordained outcome in any given decision.

Karl Rove

#13. Our success at friendship, business, sports, love
indeed, at nearly every enterprise we attempt
is largely determined by our self-image. People who have a confidence in their personal worth seem to be magnets for success and happiness.

Alan Loy McGinnis

#14. I think swagger's a confidence. It's a confidence of you knowing that you work hard for your success. A lot of times, you can't develop swagger if you haven't worked hard to succeed.

Amar'e Stoudemire

#15. I've had teachers that inspired me, yes. I think teachers play a really important role in people's lives. I had one teacher in particular who helped me through high school and really instilled a confidence in me by just holding me up to a standard I wasn't holding myself up to.

Shaun Sipos

#16. It's a confidence booster for me to be known as a female who can take on any action, which is nice, to have that reputation, because then people know that when they hire me, I can actually do the physical stuff.

Rachel Nichols

#17. Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick on himself, needs an ally. Mine has been tobacco.

J.B. Priestley

#18. They said later that Mrs. Merriweather was putting her all into the grand finale, that she had crooned, "Po-ork," with a confidence born of pine trees and butterbeans entering on cue. She waited a few seconds, then called, "Po-ork?" When nothing materialized, she yelled, "Pork!

Harper Lee

#19. Working as a solo artist has given me a confidence that I didn't have with Blondie.

Debbie Harry

#20. Once they got into the idea of seeing directly for themselves they also saw there was no limit to the amount they could say. It was a confidence building assignment too, because what they wrote, even though seemingly trivial, was nevertheless their own thing, not a mimicking of someone else's.

Robert M. Pirsig

#21. There is all this controversy that women and girls are too skinny or too overweight. I say to just do martial arts and everything will be okay. You will tone up your body and find a confidence you can't find just sitting around watching TV and hanging out with friends.

Milla Jovovich

#22. As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.

Bear Grylls

#23. His gentleman's hesitation in the car earlier is gone, replaced with a confidence that provokes.

K.A. Tucker

#24. Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#25. Ne thing you have to develop as an artist is a confidence in what you're doing and that you're right about it.

Robert Barry

#26. Resolved ... that it would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights: that confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism - free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence;

Thomas Jefferson

#27. All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

Angus Wilson

#28. I have a confidence in my understanding of formal aesthetics and I don't want to be aware of it or make that my problem.

Eva Hesse

#29. Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it

William Hazlitt

#30. If you want a confidence, act as if you already have it. Try the "as if" technique.

William James

#31. There's a confidence and a mental toughness that comes from the very highest level of competition, whatever the sport is. Whether it's boxing or wrestling, or whatever.

Joe Rogan

#32. There are cases in which a man would be ashamed not to have been imposed upon. There is a confidence necessary to human intercourse, and without which men are often more injured by their own suspicions than they would be by the perfidy of others.

Edmund Burke

#33. The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

Angela Carter

#34. It's such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone.

Zadie Smith

#35. There's a confidence you find when you finally feel right in your body.

Ariel Winter

#36. There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a confidence building between industry and academics.

Pallam Raju

#37. My first two books, I was very close to my main character, stuck inside their head. And then with 'Arrogance,' I broke into many different voices. I introduce many different characters, and that helped me to develop a confidence to move between different characters, between different voices.

Joanna Scott

#38. True ownership can come only from within. It comes from a disdain for anything or anybody that impinges upon your mobility, from a confidence in your own decisions, and from the use of your time in constant pursuit of education and improvement.

Robert Greene

#39. The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

Michel De Montaigne

#40. Rugby gave me a confidence. I was quite shy and relatively timid, but it gave me the confidence to be a little bit more out-going and back myself a bit more.

Brian O'Driscoll

#41. All golfers fear the one-iron. It has no angle, no loft. The one-iron is a confidence-crusher, a fear trip, an almost guarantee of shame, failure, dumbness and humiliation if you ever use it in public.

Hunter S. Thompson

#42. A confidence man knows he's lying; that limits his scope. But a successful shaman ropes himself first; he believes what he says - and such belief is contagious; there is no limit to his scope.

Jubal

#43. Drinkwater had a swagger to him, a confidence bordering on arrogance. He never seemed ill at ease, and even when he did not speak the language, he had ways of making himself understood.

George R R Martin

#44. When salvation is viewed as man's program, it is left up to man as to whether he will let God do this or that, but when it is viewed as God's program, there is a confidence and a certainty that no one whom God regenerates will be a carnal Christian.

Michael Horton

#45. I've always had a process that I do before I even get to set or go to the location. I work privately, and it almost feels like therapy between me and who I'm playing. So I have this inner life that's there and it gives me a confidence, too, that when I'm playing the role I know every question.

Kirsten Dunst

#46. A confidence problem exists on the part of the people of the region who desire democratic rule in principle, but remain suspicious of both the fashion with which democratization is presented and the purposes of the democratic world.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#47. I've always felt a confidence in what I do from the simple fact that I know I represent my own life.

Lazarus Of Bethany

#48. I have found that the only consolation is never regretting anything that you do. Never look back, always look forward and continue moving along with a confidence that everything you're doing and everything you've done is the way it's supposed to be.

Randolph J. Rogers

#49. I'm getting more and more comfortable out on the golf course with the changes I've been making. It's really just a confidence thing in that I love being in contention.

Paula Creamer

#50. For me, it is very important to believe in the kind of movies I do. 'Rang De Basanti' made me feel good about Indian cinema. The movie instilled in me a confidence so strong, that I wanted to be a part of the revolution in Bollywood.

Vir Das

#51. Harry Peake's spine disturbed the people's confidence in the proper shape and form of things, a confidence they had not known they possessed, it was stitched so deep in their sense of the order of the world.

Patrick McGrath

#52. Tall and fair, with blue-green eyes, sandy hair streaked by the sun, and a lean and comely body, Gerris Drinkwater had a swagger to him, a confidence bordering on arrogance.

George R R Martin

#53. It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing is a confidence game by means of which the author cajoles a restless, dull-witted, shallow audience into hearing his point of view. Such an attitude is base, and can only beget base prose.

Robertson Davies

#54. Noble and great. Courageous and determined. Faithful and fearless. That is who you are and who you have always been. And understanding it can change your life, because this knowledge carries a confidence that cannot be duplicated any other way.

Sheri Dew

#55. I grew up thinking anything was possible simply because of seeing women in power - like, you know, running the country. Which is a thought that continues to give Americans indigestion ... Direction is about having a vision, but the practice of being a director is a con game - a confidence game.

Mira Nair

#56. When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate.

Sean Penn

#57. In any career, whether as a surgeon, a musician, or a secretary, one needs to have a confidence that says, I can do anything, and if I can't do it, I know how to get help.

Ben Carson

#58. Taking the obedience of the soldier for the consent of the nation--such a confidence is the destruction of thrones.

Victor Hugo

#59. Don't be crushed under the oncoming tide of adversity that moves in to test your faith. Make sure that your foundation is built on the solid rock of Jesus Christ. Be ready for the storms of life and move forward in a confidence that cannot be shaken by the strong winds of hardship.

Calvin W. Allison

#60. Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

Annie Lennox

#61. I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.

Jane Fonda

#62. Self respect by definition is a confidence and pride in knowing that your behaviour is both honorable and dignified. Therefore when you harass or vilify another person, you not only disrespect them, but you also. -Respect yourself by respecting others.

Miya Yamanouchi

#63. A bank is a confidence trick. If you put up the right signs, the wizards of finance themselves will come in and ask you to take their money.

Christina Stead

#64. Wall Street crime, in part, is a confidence game in which the criminal justice system itself is the mark.

Matt Taibbi

#65. I'm a very cerebral person and I like to do my homework and break it down. I like to feel like I did my due diligence. It's a confidence factor for me, as an actor.

Emmanuelle Chriqui

#66. The point about hope is that it is something that occurs in very dark moments. It is like a flame in the darkness; it isn't like a confidence and a promise.

John Berger

#67. Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.

Evan Davis

#68. There is a certain mysticism in the Christian's affirmation of the physical universe. There is a confidence that whatever is discovered conforms with Jesus Christ and is a manifestation of His will.

Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#69. I have a confidence because my research shows that I should just really trust my instincts.

Katy Perry

#70. I had a confidence that I hadn't had before. Was that considered a superpower? Could I be like, Yes, I have super-strength, speed, hearing, and super-confidence?

Logan Rutherford

#71. Before the final battle in 'Poison Princess,' Evie remembered how to use her Empress powers, practiced with them to the point of exhaustion, then had a trial by fire. In a way, she earned those powers, as she hadn't before, so that was certainly a confidence builder.

Kresley Cole

#72. The funny thing is I'm actually really insecure. I have a lot of girl issues - 'I'm not pretty enough,' 'I'm not skinny enough' - but there is a confidence I have in what I can do. I did tend to overcompensate to cover up other insecurities that I have.

Lindsay Pearce

#73. Oak was just thinking that whatever he
himself might have suffered from Bathsheba's marriage, here was a
man who had suffered more, when Boldwood spoke in a changed
voice - that of one who yearned to make a confidence and relieve his
heart by an outpouring.

Thomas Hardy

#74. I think the great thing about theatre, and if you start in theatre, is that it does build a confidence in poetic themes and ideas.

Abi Morgan

#75. There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.

Kiefer Sutherland

#76. No activity I know is more of a confidence builder and at the same time more 'humility training' than wrestling.

Jim Leach

#77. As God can protect his people under the greatest despotism, so the utmost civil liberty is no safety to them without the immediate protection of his Almighty arm. I fear that Christians in this country have too great a confidence in political institutions ... [rather] than of the government of God.

Alexander Carson

#78. The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.

Edmund Burke

#79. I've endlessly found myself in rooms of men and had the experience of feeling I wasn't being heard. It's a confidence thing.

Sarah Gavron

#80. You know, when someone prefers their own brother over you, it isn't a confidence booster.

Cassandra Clare

#81. A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party ... Digging beneath a coach's lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it.

Dan Jenkins

#82. On the other side of self-doubt comes a confidence from faith in the process. Even though our destination may be a long way off, each day we rise with a subtle smile as if we have already achieved it, because, when we are truly committed to a task, we already have.

Chris Matakas

#83. Any man shall speak the better when he knows what others have said, and sometimes the consciousness of his inward knowledge gives a confidence to his outward behavior, which of all other is the best thing to grace a man in his carriage.

Owen Feltham

#84. I breath wrestling. It's in my blood. I have kind of a confidence when I walk ...

Kane

#85. To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.

Sophie Swetchine

#86. Your image is your brand and you have only one opportunity to make that first impression. Choose to make a positive first impression.

Cindy Ann Peterson

#87. Over-confidence is the way to give your soul to the devil an inch at a time.

Joe R. Lansdale

#88. The foundation of self-confidence, the basis of boldness and self-assertion, is a deep inner trust, based on living a life of perfect integrity, and disciplining yourself to live consistent with your highest values in every situation.

Brian Tracy

#89. The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy.

James Madison

#90. Her feelings of fear and helplessness had reached such a pitch that they were suddenly transformed into their opposites. Having overcome them, she felt corageous and self-confident enough to tackle any power on earth; more precisely, she had ceased to worry about herself.

Michael Ende

#91. You see, the richest people I know don't always understand what is going on. They don't always like what they see. But they have a quiet confidence that God will put all things together for their good.

Phil Callaway

#92. I always thought of myself as the piano player in the band. That, I suppose, I'm confident about, and I guess my songwriting developed as I went along and I got a certain amount of confidence in that. The songs are like my kids, I'm proud of all of them for one reason or another.

Billy Joel

#93. I wanted to be involved with literature. I certainly wasn't going to be able to write for a living, and I didn't have enough confidence in my talent to think that I should be just doing that. Publishing seemed like fun to me - to be involved with writers. And it did turn out to be.

Jonathan Galassi

#94. Stewart loves me with a tiger's intensity, his need taking my breath away, his confidence in our relationship strong enough to not be bothered by the presence of another man. He stares into my soul as if he owns it, and shows his love with money, sex, and rare moments of time.

Alessandra Torre

#95. Good teaching gains its authority from having consistent and repeated support from multiple scriptural sources, and it builds a firm base for our unity and our confidence in Christ.

Reid A. Ashbaucher

#96. Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.

William Hazlitt

#97. It's all about educating people to value you as much a they value themselves. If you respect your time, others will too.

Sharon Law Tucker

#98. If I had more confidence, I would rock a crop top.

Nikki Reed

#99. I'm looking at a tax process that will allow people to keep more of their money because we know what happens when job creators get to keep more of their money than they're - they have the confidence to go out and spend that money to create jobs that in turn create wealth.

Rick Perry

#100. Walking the walk doesn't begin with a step. It begins with a choice. You can turn fear into action and let doubt become confidence. Find your pride and let it fuel your courage. Turn tomorrow into today and turn today into RIGHT NOW!

Rich Gaspari