Confidence In Quotes

#1. Our expanding Canadian operations are concrete evidence of General Motors confidence in Canada.

Charles E. Wilson

#2. Using your intelligence and your compassion, you'll be able to find your way out of any difficulty that arises in daily life. This gives you greater confidence in your own capability, making you even more solid.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#3. Have confidence in your strengths, dear writer, or give it all up now and create apps instead.

Dave Morris

#4. Con" is short for "confidence game" or "confidence trick." The term comes from the idea that you gain someone's confidence in order to take advantage of them.

Jason Mosberg

#5. I had the benefit of being guided by Lew Wasserman. I think part of being a mentor is you have to have confidence in the people you're guiding and mentoring.

Sidney Sheinberg

#6. I look forward to continuing to be a role model to women across the country and helping them have confidence in all they do in the ring, on the court or in the game of life!

Marlen Esparza

#7. There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

John Calvin

#8. Education jargon is the language of pedants; it identifies those who have so little confidence in themselves and their work that they seek to create a veil of words to hide them.

Ted Sizer

#9. I love Tina Turner. I'm one of Tina Turner's biggest fans. Tina Turner was a big influence on me to become a singer. A role model and in a way she gave me back my confidence in choosing my material.

Bonnie Tyler

#10. You know, we just buy music now. We don't make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it's so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.

Tom Waits

#11. Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains.

Giraldus Cambrensis

#12. If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

Marcus Garvey

#13. If you face life without confidence in your own powers, you succumb too easily to setbacks and adversity; you lack the will to persevere.

Nathaniel Branden

#14. One of the greatest fruits of obedience is bold confidence in prayer.

Karen Wheaton

#15. A great leader has the ability to instill within his people confidence in themselves.

John C. Maxwell

#16. Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in me and Mike and Ed and Leslie and Steve, that we're not going go out and do stories that will put people to sleep.

Morley Safer

#17. Confidence in oneself stems from the trust one has in knowledge.

Nelly Mazloum

#18. Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist,

Biz Stone

#19. The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#20. If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things?

George S. Clason

#21. I have total confidence in Beaute Prestige International to accompany me in creating a perfume that interprets my work and my world.

Azzedine Alaia

#22. 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

#23. The confidence of the entire global financial system rests on the U.S. dollar. Confidence in the dollar rests on the solvency of the Fed's balance sheet. And that solvency rests on a thin sliver of . . . gold.

James Rickards

#24. We must not pick and choose which commandments we think are important to keep but acknowledge all of God's commandments. We must stand firm and steadfast, having perfect confidence in the Lord's consistency and perfect trust in His promises.

L. Tom Perry

#25. Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.

Thomas A Kempis

#26. All authority belongs to the people ... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief with chains of the Constitution.

Thomas Jefferson

#27. puzzling limitation of our mind: our excessive confidence in what we believe we know, and our apparent inability to acknowledge the full extent of our ignorance and the uncertainty of the world we live in. We

Daniel Kahneman

#28. Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

Abraham Lincoln

#29. At times of distress, we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me was to keep faith and deep confidence in the potential of the Greek people; nurture the belief that they can do things.

George Papandreou

#30. Be a light unto the world, a standard to others. You can live in the world and not partake of the sins of the world. You can live life joyously, beautifully, unmarred by the ugliness of sin. This is our confidence in you.

Ezra Taft Benson

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

Michael Bloomberg

#32. If you have confidence in your own words, aspirations, thoughts, and actions and do your very best, you will have no need to regret the outcome of what you do. Fear and trembling are lot of the person who, while stinting effort, hopes that everything will come out precisely as he wants.

Mas Oyama

#33. The dinosaurs invented Jesus to test our confidence in science.

Karl Hess

#34. If you don't have the confidence in baking, commit to making the recipe three times. The first two, do it exactly the way I've told you to make it. Twice. The first time you'll screw it up. The second time it will come out pretty good, and then the third time, make your adjustments.

Tom Douglas

#35. I have a lot of confidence in myself, a lot of confidence in the race team, our equipment and if my mind plays games on me, I just fall back on the team.

Jimmie Johnson

#36. You are blessed with a good mind. You just have to have confidence in it and talk when people call on you.

Ned Vizzini

#37. Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.

Epictetus

#38. Beauty draws the seer towards the person seen; it invites them to know and have confidence in that person even without knowing the person intimately.

Pia De Solenni

#39. When someone reacts violently and aggressively, it only goes to demonstrate the lack of truth, trust and confidence in oneself and issue that we are defending. It rather portrays the guilt, shame and self anger for defending the indefensible.

Vishwas Chavan

#40. You will never have confidence in your prayers if you fail to be prudent with your words.

Neil Kennedy

#41. A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid of, what it's trying to hide - then write that.

M. John Harrison

#42. South Australia has transformed. There has been a range of changes to our economy over the past 10 years in which we have genuinely set ourselves up for the future. I think we have to start behaving like that's real and project a quiet confidence in the future of our state.

Jay Weatherill

#43. 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

#44. Don't compare yourself to others. That's when you start to lose confidence in yourself.

Will Smith

#45. Not that I lack confidence in the outcome," Ferrin said, "but would you consider entrusting the piece of my neck to somebody who is not about to confront one of the most deadly beings in the world?

Brandon Mull

#46. I obviously want to give a healthy body image to my own daughter. I think having good examples, eating properly, that's all one can do - and just be really loving around her. I've tried to give her confidence in who she is. I think she's all right in the confidence department.

Geri Halliwell

#47. Between optimism and pessimism, there is confidence in God.

Edmund Campion

#48. The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. The masks have fallen.

Jose Rizal

#49. You may have confidence in the Lord's service. The Savior will help you do what He has called you to do, be it for a time as a worker in the Church or forever as a parent. You may pray for help enough to do the work and know that it will come.

Henry B. Eyring

#50. The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#51. Faith is a living, unshakable confidence in God's grace; it is so certain that someone would die a thousand times for it.

Martin Luther

#52. I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he didn't have confidence in who he was, but because he never imitated anybody. He was his own person.

Patti Davis

#53. The naked pinch hitter takes only one thing to the plate: his raw, and somewhat irrational, confidence in himself. That this confidence is so unreasonable adds to its dignity.

Thomas Boswell

#54. We must rest, he told himself, on our confidence in His design. Design was clear enough in the stars, the seasons, in the woods and fields. But in human affairs - ? Perhaps our bewilderment came from a fault in our perceptions; we could never see what was behind the next turn of the road.

Willa Cather

#55. By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority.

Gene Sharp

#56. I'm not being evasive but I am saying I'm not a scientist and I'm not directly involved in the consultation however the science must be sound, it must be agreed and the consultation must be of a high quality or no one will have any confidence in the process.

John Anderson

#57. No matter where you are or who you're with, don't forget to smile. A smile makes the world go round. It becomes your strength and confidence in this world. Because that's the secret to true beauty.

Jo Ah-ra

#58. If somebody says they are going to do something - and then later they don't - it affects me a lot, and I lose confidence in them.

Royston Drenthe

#59. It's one of the reasons [professional politicians] why people's confidence in the electoral system has declined so much. They have all become shadowy political creatures

Geoffrey Howe

#60. The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#61. To restore and keep the public's confidence in the integrity of their government, state government and its officials must be open, honest and transparent.

John Lynch

#62. I came to L.A. with confidence in my craft, and I was very offended when I didn't get a part. It took me awhile to understand that it is not always about your acting.

Zoe McLellan

#63. Sincerity w the most compendious wisdom, an excellent instrument for the speedy despatch of business. It creates confidence in those we have to deal with, saves the labor of many inquiries, and brings things to an issue in few words.

Lord Chesterfield

#64. Tim Robbins had real confidence in college. He literally stole actors from the theater department at UCLA to be in his plays. The department heads got so mad at him.

Daphne Zuniga

#65. Every great risk in God's name begins with confidence in the goodness and trustworthiness of God.

J.D. Greear

#66. Never yield to gloomy anticipation. Place your hope and confidence in God. He has no record of failure

Lettie Cowman

#67. What would you do if you put your trust and confidence in the Lord ? That he would never leave you, nor forsake you, and that he will do what he promises. Think about it.

Amanda Penland

#68. A humble man is not afraid of failure. In fact, he is not afraid of anything, even himself, since perfect humility implies perfect confidence in the power of God.

Thomas Merton

#69. We have to be careful not to look for confidence in the acceptance of others because true confidence only comes from knowing God.

Victoria Osteen

#70. Expressiveness in others enriched Mrs. Singer's confidence in her own interpretations, possibly because a certain fear that she had not accomplished anything in her life left her all the more desirous of discovering easy clues to less consequential questions.

William T. Vollmann

#71. People will not follow a leader who does not have confidence in himself.

John C. Maxwell

#72. One of the most important qualities for any young athlete is the ability to believe in oneself. If you have confidence in yourself, in your teammates and your coach, you will succeed.

Chuck Knox

#73. People exaggerate their confidence in their plans - something we call the planning fallacy ... The existence of the plan tends to induce overconfidence.

Daniel Kahneman

#74. To lose confidence in one's body is to lose confidence in oneself.

Simone De Beauvoir

#75. It is not that we don't have confidence in our God to save us from hell; we just don't have confidence in Him to do everything else he has promised to do while we are still on Earth.

Leslie Ludy

#76. It is very easy to slowly lose your self confidence in a business where rejection is a possibility with every trial. It is a business after all and there are so many amazing actors out there that you'll never really see or hear of simply because they don't have someone of influence backing them.

Irena A. Hoffman

#77. Suicide is an extreme vote of no confidence in a society that doesn't work.

Sharif Abdullah

#78. I have confidence in mining. I see exciting opportunities in it.

Patrice Motsepe

#79. I want to have conversations, because they give you confidence in your choices. I learned it first on Boyz n the Hood, but it is not a race-based experience - it is part of the artistic process.

Nia Long

#80. American civilization, from its beginnings, had combined a dogmatic confidence in the future with a naive puzzlement over what the future might bring.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#81. The freethinker has the same right to discredit the beliefs of Christians that the Orthodox Christians enjoy in destroying reverence, respect, and confidence in Mohammedanism, Mormonism, Christian Science, or Atheism.

Theodore Schroeder

#82. With such thoughts in your mind, now that you have resolved to love Him and please Him with all your strength, your only fear should be to fear God too much and to place too little confidence in Him.

Alphonsus Liguori

#83. When, you know, when you're playing basketball, you have to have confidence in your moves if they're gonna work.

O'Shea Jackson Jr.

#84. We're kindred spirits. And you're strong, Nikki. There's a core of strength and confidence in you that's damn sexy.

J. Kenner

#85. 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

#86. I believe that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act must be reformed. We must improve the American public's confidence in, and perception of, our national security programs, by increasing transparency, strengthening oversight, and safeguarding civil liberties.

Dutch Ruppersberger

#87. When there's ever a breakthrough, a true breakthrough, you can go back and find a time period when the consensus was 'well, that's nonsense!' so what that means is that a true creative researcher has to have confidence in nonsense.

Burt Rutan

#88. Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety and no doubt - just absolute confidence in yourself.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#89. I do not have much confidence in the political system and never did. My goal has always been to change people's minds because as long as people demand more government, they will get it.

Ron Paul

#90. I tell them that the most important aspect is to be yourself and have confidence in yourself.

Wilma Rudolph

#91. He said, The main thing that you bring the church is the person that you become, and that's what everybody will see; that's what will get reproduced; that's what people will believe. Arrange your life so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.

Dallas Willard

#92. Be confident enough to encourage confidence in others.

Ron Kaufman

#93. When an actor doesn't face a conflict, he loses confidence in himself. I always want to have a struggle because I believe it will help me accomplish more.

John Garfield

#94. I knew Manuel Pellegrini from my time in Spain. I'd only heard good things about him, that he was someone who instilled the confidence in his players to go out and play good, attacking football.

Sergio Aguero

#95. There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them.

Bertrand Russell

#96. I never felt sidelined, I was supported by my friends, my family and my team. I always knew I could do it. I had confidence in myself.

Lindsey Vonn

#97. Making anything a success rests with people and commitment; strong will to always do the best, confidence in one another.. and absolute determination.

Jorgen Roed

#98. When we approach fundraising in a spirit of gratitude, our confidence in our mission does not depend on how the person we are with responds to our request! We are free to remain secure in God's love with our hearts set joyfully on the kingdom.

Henri Nouwen

#99. My first impression when I made it through was 'Good, because I'm going to prove to you that I deserve to be here', because they told me that sometimes I lack confidence in my performance and sometimes I'm not as consistent as they'd like me to be.

Naima Adedapo

#100. One reason citizens, politicians and university donors sometimes lack confidence in the social sciences is that social scientists too often miss the chance to declare victory and move on to new frontiers.

Nicholas A. Christakis