Confidence In My Abilities Quotes

#1. I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed.

Tim Robbins

#2. Explorations into chemistry were done in our basement, sometimes with friends, and my parents must have had quite a bit of confidence in my abilities when they allowed me to experiment with explosive mixtures.

Wolfgang Ketterle

#3. There is real danger that, by strengthening our abilities to analyze some questions mathematically, we acquire a general confidence in our beliefs, which extends unjustifiably to those things we're still wrong about.

Jordan Ellenberg

#4. I have a great amount of confidence and faith in my abilities to write. There are other areas of my life where I'm not as confident, and have not as much faith, but when it comes down to writing and working, I don't worry about it. I trust myself to get it right.

James Frey

#5. Every act of self-discipline increases your confidence, trust, and belief in yourself and your abilities.

Brian Tracy

#6. 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

#7. I started to really believe in myself, and my abilities, when I won the World Under-10 championship in Doral, Florida. I was nine and saw for the first time that I was amongst the best players in the world for my age. This was a massive confidence-builder for me.

Rory McIlroy

#8. Don't be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don't let the bastards get you down.

Michael Bloomberg

#9. One thing I have is that I have never been afraid to expose myself in a way, and I really think I got that from my mother. That's a great gift you can give to a child, that they have confidence in their abilities.

John Turturro

#10. I have plenty of information now, but I can't get it into words. I'm afraid it's too big a task for me. I wonder if I will find everything in life too big for my abilities. Well, time will tell. Theodore Roosevelt, writing in naval history in his spare time while in law school

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#11. We can do the work.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. Confidence can get you where you want to go, and getting there is a daily process. It's so much easier when you feel good about yourself, your abilities and talents.

Donald Trump

#13. In the race of life, you need self confidence, courage and faith in your abilities to win the race.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. I want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities.

Tina Fey

#15. Why doubt thyself? Believe in your abilities.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. Real pleasure comes from overcoming challenges, feeling confidence in your abilities, gaining fluency in skills, and experiencing the power this brings. You develop patience. Boredom no longer signals the need for distraction, but rather the need for new challenges to conquer.

Robert Greene

#17. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

Brian Eno

#18. the confidence people express often reflects their personalities rather than their knowledge, memory, or abilities.

Christopher Chabris

#19. In a race between danger and indecision, the difference between life and death comes down to confidence. Faith in our abilities, certainty in ourselves and the trust we put in others.

Emily Thorne

#20. Your are unique.
Have confidence in your abilities.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. Don't let the fact you haven't done something before convince you that you can't do it, or that it cannot be done perfectly the first time you try your hand at it.

A.J. Darkholme

#22. May you find the strength to pursue your dreams.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. When you engage in systematic, purposeful actin, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident abut yourself.

Brian Tracy

#24. Healthy posture is based on natural positions that balance and support your skeletal system's curves and weight-bearing abilities against the force of gravity.

Cindy Ann Peterson

#25. One should try to live with his abilities rather than his deprivals.

M.H. Rakib

#26. Explore your unique skills.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#27. I've always been supremely confident in my abilities. But the biggest confidence boost is when the guys around you, you feel like they have confidence in you.

Aaron Rodgers

#28. I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.
[Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992]

Cormac McCarthy

#29. 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

#30. I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness ... their 'disability.' And I'm certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.

Aimee Mullins

#31. Focusing on who you are, and pursuing opportunities to improve your abilities, allows you to be in acceptance of yourself. This makes you a beautiful person who could care less about what others think of you.

Ellen J. Barrier

#32. If you believe in your abilities, it will amaze you what you can accomplish.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#33. A hero is defined by what he or she can do, not by what he or she cannot do.

Damon Throop

#34. Nothing great could ever be achieved, without personal force, determined spirit and self-confidence.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#35. The most self-damaging words in the English language are: try, might, and if. These are words of uncertainty. Will you fail? That is possible. But continue doubting your abilities and you'll never succeed.

Dannika Dark

#36. With greater confidence in yourself and your abilities, you will set bigger goals, make bigger plans and commit yourself to achieving objectives that today you only dream about.

Brian Tracy

#37. True confidence is firmly planted in reality. To grow your confidence, it's important to do an honest and accurate self-assessment of your abilities. If there are weaknesses in your skill set, make plans for strengthening these skills and find ways to minimize their negative impact.

Travis Bradberry

#38. We can do great things only by the divine grace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#39. As a mathematician, von Neumann was quick, brilliant, efficient, and enormously broad in scientific interests beyond mathematics itself. He knew his technical abilities; his virtuosity in following complicated reasoning and his insights were supreme; yet he lacked absolute self confidence.

Stanislaw Ulam

#40. Pixar's short films convinced Disney that if the company could produce memorable characters within five minutes, then the confidence was there in creating a feature film with those abilities in story and character development.

John Lasseter

#41. It is also true that the less competent a person is in a given domain, the more he will tend to overestimate his abilities. This often produces an ugly marriage of confidence and ignorance that is very difficult to correct for.

Sam Harris

#42. Life is not a competition.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#43. Focus on your strength and maximum its potential.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#44. When we are eager to be shy and humble about our accomplishments, we lose confidence in our abilities.

Claire Shipman