Famous Confidence Quotes

#1. I was a baseball guy. Mom wouldn't let me play football when I was little because she was scared I'd get hurt. So, I finally convinced her to let me play in 7th grade.

Calvin Johnson

#2. Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#3. You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.

Molly Ivins

#4. Confidence comes from being prepared.

John Wooden

#5. I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.

Bruce Willis

#6. With just a touch more self confidence and a liberal helping of ignorance I could have been a famous evangelist.

Robert A. Heinlein

#7. I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of a poet.

Vladimir Nabokov

#8. An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.

Artie Shaw

#9. I think that objects have memories. I'm always thinking that I'll go to the museum and see something and have a big memory about some other lifetime.

Kiki Smith

#10. In short, all good things are wild and free.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#12. - and since nothing lasts forever, in the end everything that once was good, always hurts like hell.

J.A. Redmerski

#13. I wanted to be famous. It's embarrassing to admit, but I came out to L.A. thinking it would happen in no time. I thought, 'Once they see me, they'll be so glad I came.' I always had a ridiculous amount of self-confidence about what was going to happen to me.

Chelsea Handler

#14. Hello, Consort,' Mauro boomed. He got to his feet, spread his arms, and curtsied.

Ilona Andrews

#15. For the sun, stars, oceans, and all the trees, I'll consider it.

Jandy Nelson

#16. Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it.

Anton Chekhov

#17. No one to love, none to caress, Left all alone in this world's wilderness.

Frank Norris

#18. Terrorists cannot threaten the survival of a great nation.

Conrad Black