Confidence And Competence Quotes

#1. This jewel is the wisdom and compassion that it takes to act not on behalf of ourselves but for all beings. This is where real confidence and competence come from. Once we possess this jewel, our life becomes blessed.

Sakyong Mipham

#2. Time when learning how to learn (and unlearn) is central to success. Instead of hiding from change, let's embrace it. Each time we try something new, we get better at getting better. Experience builds competence and confidence, so we're ready for the big changes, like re-thinking what we do.

Peter Morville

#3. Healthy mature adults use both Sensing and Intuition but not with equal competence, confidence and conscious control.

Flavil R. Yeakley Jr.

#4. Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.

Lorraine Toussaint

#5. Our confidence ... is not in the competence of our own knowing, but in the faithfulness and reliability of the one who is known.

Lesslie Newbigin

#6. For the social phobic, any kind of performance - musical, sporting, public speaking - can be terrifying because failure will reveal the weakness and inadequacy within. This in turn means constantly projecting an image that feels false - an image of confidence, competence, even perfection.

Scott Stossel

#7. They looked more like day laborers than seamen.

Erik Larson

#8. Obviously, as an adult I realize this girl-on-girl sabotage is the third worst kind of female behavior, right behind saying "like" all the time and leaving your baby in a dumpster. I'm proud to say I would never sabotage a fellow female like that now.

Tina Fey

#9. Your greatest competence are your courage and confident.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit of mind becomes that of a commander who has lost a decisive and calamitous battle. He quite trusts himself thereafter.

H.L. Mencken

#11. Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious mind.

Brian Tracy

#12. Pride in office without competence is as much a sin as competence without confidence.

Peter Tremayne

#13. Confidence believes you are able. Competence knows you are able.

Lolly Daskal

#14. My competence is my complete confidence in Christ.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.

Ron Suskind

#16. We would like to have every middle and high school become a place where there will be lots of examples of youth competence and confidence.

Bill Drayton

#17. Your life is made up of your dreams and your realities, your expectations and your possibilities.

Debasish Mridha

#18. I'd rather go back to waitressing than play a character that I hate.

Julianna Margulies

#19. Competence is a great creator of confidence.

Mary Jo Putney

#20. Bourgeois do not even suspect that we serve them our hearts. The race of gladiators has not died: every artist is one. He amuses the public with his afflictions.

Gustave Flaubert

#21. Trust is the confidence that emerges when character and competence converge.

Kevin Cope

#22. [Invading Iraq] will unite the entire Arab world against the West.

Richard Dawkins

#23. We found that success correlates more closely with confidence than it does with competence. Yes, there is evidence that confidence is more important than ability when it comes to getting ahead. This came as particularly unsettling news to us, having spent our own lives striving toward competence.

Katty Kay

#24. By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.

Michael J. Gelb

#25. Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions.

Susan Maushart

#26. The problem is not lack of competence, it is confidence without competence.

Paul Gibbons

#27. The sweetest song is the beautiful smile of a loving woman.

Debasish Mridha

#28. When your confidence goes up, your competence goes up the same time.

Zig Ziglar

#29. Competence, Courage, Confident!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#30. The episodes all blend together for me, so I don't remember. I can't even remember what I had for breakfast this morning. I always feel I must be such a disappointment to them.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

#31. The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

Andre Malraux