Top 100 Quotes About Confidence
#1. Be patient with yourself and take heart. Your self-confidence will grow if you seek challenges and worry less about the initial insecurity.
Wendy Lustbader
#2. I don't have an extraordinary degree of self-confidence, but I know the gift I have been given from God, and I try to share it with as many people as possible.
Andrea Bocelli
#3. I do have insecurities. I don't know if you can tell. I'm not brimming with confidence.
Andy Kindler
#4. What offers immediate pleasure comes to seem like a distraction, an empty entertainment to help pass the time. Real pleasure comes from overcoming challenges, feeling confidence in your abilities, gaining fluency in skills, and experiencing the power this brings.
Robert Greene
#5. If you feel like someone just knows what this is about to their core, they're going to have that special confidence in it.You stop looking at the seams and they start inhabiting the same space and start interacting with each .
Edward Norton
#6. my body, my work, my voice, my confidence, my power, my determination to demand a life as potent, vibrant, public, and complex as any man's.
Lindy West
#7. Today it was win or lose. But my victory yesterday and the downhill globe boosted my confidence. My record in Cortina was also a liberation.
Lindsey Vonn
#8. I think you can tell the difference between "swagger" and real confidence immediately. You can smell it, like bad body spray versus nice cologne.
Stephanie Beatriz
#9. My parents were there: in front of me, behind me, in the middle of my life at all times: reprimanding me, giving me confidence, teaching me valuable lessons, to help make me the man I am today.
Marcus Samuelsson
#10. Life, on confidence, is an extraordinary and powerful thing
Claire Shipman
#12. Books are people,' smiled Miss Marks. 'In every book worth reading, the author is there to meet you, to establish contact with you. He takes you into his confidence and reveals his thoughts to you.
D.E. Stevenson
#13. 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
#14. As you gain experience, you mature as an individual, and along with that comes the confidence that you have the ability to solve problems.
Chuck Noll
#15. The secret of making dreams come true can be summarized in four C's.They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy; and the greatest of these is Confidence.
Walt Disney
#16. Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.
Franklin P. Adams
#17. Even if you haven't encountered great success yet, there is no reason you can't bluff a little and act like you have. Confidence is a magnet in the best sense of the word. It will draw people to you and make your daily life.. and theirs.. a lot more pleasant.
Donald Trump
#18. You can have all the potential in world, but unless you have confidence, you have nothing.
Tyra Banks
#19. Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#20. Women were quite terrifying until I was older. I think that's partly down to confidence.
Jimmy Carr
#21. In school if you're different that's uncool. But I try to maintain confidence in who I am ... because ... you know ... I don't really want to change it.
Taylor Swift
#22. 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
#23. A crisis allows us the opportunity to dig deep into the reservoirs of our very being, to rise to levels of confidence, strength, and resolve that otherwise we didn't think we possessed. Through adversity, we come face to face with who we really are and what really counts.
Jon Huntsman Jr.
#24. The Australian is forcefully loquacious, until the moment of expressing any emotion. He is aggressively committed to equality and equal-opportunity for all men, except for black Australians. He has high assurance in anything he does combined with a gnawing lack of confidence in anything he thinks.
Robin Boyd
#25. 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
#26. Doing begets more doing. It sounds simple, but I'm a firm believer that action can solve so many worries, and just powering through, no matter what, can give you the confidence you need when you feel like you've got nothing to offer.
Reese Witherspoon
#27. 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
#28. I witness that as you gain experience and success in being guided by the spirit, your confidence in the impressions you feel can become more certain than your dependence on what you see or hear.
Richard G. Scott
#29. No activity I know is more of a confidence builder and at the same time more 'humility training' than wrestling.
Jim Leach
#30. There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed.
Calvin Coolidge
#31. Give the people - confidence. Give the people - delight. Give the people - hope. Give the people - the best.
Gautama Buddha
#32. [The] liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute ...
Edward Gibbon
#33. Self-awareness and healthy self-love go hand in hand. When we love what God has given us and share it with others naturally and without expectations for gratitude we are truly people who have spiritual self-confidence and compassion; and isn't that a great way to live?
Robert J. Wicks
#34. When we know God personally through faith in His Son, Jesus Christ, we can have confidence that the angels of God will watch over us and assist us because we belong to Him.
Billy Graham
#35. Reality bites. Micron underlines that despite the market run-up recently, there's still no confidence about growth and earnings.
David Thwaites
#37. Confidence sells
people believe in those who believe in themselves. No one wants to be stuck in a room with other people who feel like they don't deserve to be there. Stop wondering if you're good enough. Know you are, and start acting like it.
Simon Black
#38. Our confidence is not in what we have, but He who freely gave us what we have. If God's will is in your little stones, they will surely bring down giant Goliaths ... but you have to make the throw!
Israelmore Ayivor
#39. Confidence can be the first pillar of defense in any situation. If one has confidence, it does not matter what crisis you face. You will overcome or at least minimize the impact of the crisis.
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
#40. We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face ... we must do that which we think we cannot. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Aleatha Romig
#41. Quality assurance (QA) refers to planned and systematic production processes that provide confidence in a product's suitability for its intended purpose.
Christina Hattingh
#42. I do still have dips of confidence or [can think] everything I do is rubbish.
David Toop
#43. I realized that the confidence, power, and wisdom to create changes in our life come from knowing what we really are, from knowing our changeless nature.
Ilchi Lee
#44. We move forward by having confidence within ourselves, with hope for a greater purpose.
Ellen J. Barrier
#45. When you put on a new cloth that fits you well, you put on a new confidence that improves your confidence well
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#46. I want people to consider talent without a last name or a race attached to it. I knew it would be a long path but also worth the struggle. That's when I got my confidence and when I started to figure out what beauty is.
Genesis Rodriguez
#47. "What would I do if?.." By thinking tactically, we can more easily arrive at correct tactical solutions, and practice - even theoretical practice - tends to produce confidence in our solutions which, in turn, makes it easier for us, and thus quicker, to reach a decision.
Jeff Cooper
#48. People wrote me off, but I believed in myself. I got the confidence back, and it grew and grew. I won my first major and my last at the place that changed my life.
Pete Sampras
#49. Carry in your memory, for the rest of your life, the good things that came out of those difficulties. They will serve as a proof of your abilities and will give you confidence when you are faced by other obstacles.
Paulo Coelho
#50. When people began to view their neighborhood as brimming with deprivation and vice, full of "all sorts of shipwrecked humanity," they lost confidence in its political capacity.8
Matthew Desmond
#51. A spider web of 'patriots for profit', operating from the highest positions of special trust and confidence, have successfully circumvented our constitutional system in pursuit of a New World Order.
Bo Gritz
#52. Confidence comes with mastery, and the combination enables me to reach new heights.
Pauline Brown
#54. Do not allow a lack of one's own talent or confidence shackle the door prior to even opening it." (Ginger Susanoo, 2018).
Michael Rogers
#55. Put another way, to be more confident you need to give a whole lot less of a shit about what other people think of you. Confidence is not something you feel or possess; it's something others use to describe what they see when they look at you.
Augusten Burroughs
#56. I know I'm not inspiring much confidence at this point, but there's something else I thought I'd bring up." She lifted her eyes to him. "I love you more than I love books.
Cynthia Hand
#57. Moreover, Christians are born for combat, whereof the greater the vehemence, the more assured, God willing, the triumph: 'Have confidence; I have overcome the world'
Pope Leo XIII
#58. Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts
John Dryden
#59. In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true interest
George Washington
#60. The only investable idea I have real confidence in is farming and forestry. My family owns some forest, and now we're closing on a farm. Make the farming more sustainable and the forestry more sustainable, and everyone benefits.
Jeremy Grantham
#61. We need self-confidence in our ability to build Africa. I trust in Mali and I trust in music.
Rokia Traore
#62. There are benefits in the sense that there's still a certain level of confidence. But there are liabilities because you can coordinate and manipulate better as the instruments of oversight are more under your control. You don't have so many rogue operations.
Ted Gup
#63. Drunkeness, she told us in a rare moment of confidence, is a sin against the fruit, the tree, the wine itself. Wine, distilled and nurtured from bud into fruit; it deserves reverance. Joy. Gentleness.
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Joanne Harris
#64. If you ask me why I've succeeded, it's because I was in the Royal Marines. You have this unbelievable sense of achievement and of overcoming adversity. That's the confidence it breeds.
Brian McDermott
#65. What comes first, the chicken or the egg? You start out bad, you don't really feel right, you don't have the same explosion, then you start to lose confidence, you start to doubt your ability. It's a snowball effect.
Lance Berkman
#66. Fighters display two things. They display confidence, or they display a look that says, 'I'm not sure.'
Sugar Ray Leonard
#68. Experience alone can give, even to the greatest talent, that confidence in having done all that could be done.
Eugene Delacroix
#69. Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with ourselves as the continuous ability to create; to see things grow and develop under our hand, day in, day out.
Eric Hoffer
#70. We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of, discretionary power.
Thomas Paine
#71. It may be that hidden in the poets and writers we love best is a vital clue about the heaven we are aiming for; that we should stay with and return often and with confidence to those lines and images that have most inspired us, even from our childhood.
Malcolm Guite
#72. One can say with reasonable confidence that the likelihood of something analogous to a human evolving is really pretty high.
Simon Conway Morris
#73. Later in life, as I competed against the banks, I would think back to this moment, and it gave me confidence. All the bankers did was copy what everyone else did.
Ashlee Vance
#74. Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem.
Brian Tracy
#75. One of the ways to make sure policies are more transparent and to help restore people's confidence in politicians ... is to ensure renewal at the highest level of office.
Pauline Marois
#76. Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#77. Making promises and then saddling yourself with a political system and a political union that means that you cannot deliver those promises, I fear, doesn't contribute to an atmosphere of trust and confidence in politics.
Michael Gove
#78. Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
Channing Pollock
#79. You don't need an MBA, a certificate, a fancy suit, a briefcase, or an above-average tolerance for risk. You just need an idea, a touch of confidence, and a push to get started.
Jason Fried
#80. I'm attracted to men who just love what they do, have confidence in what they do and have potential to be on their own if they need to be.
Nadine Velazquez
#81. Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system.
Dirk Kempthorne
#82. Confidence in duration is the antidote to panic and the tonic of demagogy.
Timothy Snyder
#83. People of faith should be able to have confidence in their right to freely express and live their beliefs.
Donald Wuerl
#84. The second-highest honor is playing for your country, and the highest honor is wearing the armband for your country. It shows that the players have confidence in me, and that feels good.
Landon Donovan
#85. A realization of the universal lack of self-confidence strengthens one's own.
Anonymous
#86. The secret is to be prepared, to draw on the strengths of the people around you, and most importantly, to instill confidence that your team will step up and find a solution.
Kevin Allen
#87. Yet you should practice the greatest possible love and confidence in treating with Him.
Alphonsus Liguori
#88. It is the parent's job to see how their child learns and to make sure that the children's self confidence is buoyed at all times, or they will plummet like a stone.
Henry Winkler
#89. The church says the earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence even in a shadow than in the church.
Ferdinand Magellan
#90. Confidence is highly overrated when it comes to creating literature. A writer who is overly confident will not engage in the struggle to get it exactly right on the page - but rather, will assume that she's getting it right without the struggle.
Dani Shapiro
#91. See what I mean? Your confidence is so strong it's obnoxious.
Stacy Kramer
#93. Vulnerability is the cornerstone of confidence.
Brene Brown
#94. 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
#95. Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
Abdallah II Of Jordan
#96. 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
#97. With each year that's gone by, and as I grow up and get older, I've become more mature, of course, but you have a sense of who you are, and you find confidence in that.
Hope Solo
#98. Besides confidence and a smile, we learned, the other characteristics of an alpha male were being well-groomed, possessing a sense of humor, connecting with people, and being seen as the social center of a room.
Neil Strauss
#99. At this point in my life, beaming confidence is largely a matter of mind over bladder control
Josh Stern
#100. I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice. And if you're always the new kid, you never get a chance to adapt, so your confidence is just zilch.
Eminem
