Top 100 Quotes About Lack Of Confidence
#1. A legitimate plurality of positions has yielded to an undifferentiated pluralism, based upon the assumption that all positions are equally valid, which is one of today's most widespread symptoms of the lack of confidence in truth.
Pope John Paul II
#2. I'm beating all the weakness out of myself, beating all the give-up out of myself, I'm beating the lack of cardio, I'm beating the lack of confidence - any sign of weakness that's in my heart, I'm getting rid of it
Jon Jones
#3. Posture Power, when interviewing for a job remember. Poor posture shows uncertainty and a lack of confidence and ability. Good posture conveys confidence and an air of capability.
Cindy Ann Peterson
#4. I never suffered for lack of confidence. I knew I would succeed; you have to. I think I couldn't go into any venture any other way.
Brian Williams
#5. Fear is the result of a lack of confidence. A lack of confidence is the result of not knowing what you can do. A lack of knowing what you can do is caused by a lack of experience. A lack of experience is caused by a lack of doing something new.
Dale Carnegie
#6. We still have time to negotiate, we still have time for diplomacy, because there are still a number of issues that have not been clarified, that created a lack of confidence.
Mohamed ElBaradei
#7. The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity, I think, of a lack of confidence.
Douglas Dunn
#8. What offends Him and what wounds His Heart is the lack of confidence ... Your heart is made to love Jesus, to love Him passionately ... We have only the short moments of our life to love Jesus!
Therese Of Lisieux
#9. Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.
Herbert Hoover
#10. It is the misfortune of contemporary leaders, across the whole spectrum of Australian life, that the community's demand for strong leadership is growing in direct proportion to our lack of confidence in ourselves. The end of this century is an unusually difficult time to be a leader in Australia.
Hugh Mackay
#11. I finally made up my mind I wanted to be an actress and I was not going to let my lack of confidence ruin my chances.
Marilyn Monroe
#12. I'm not sure that I want to be without some lack of confidence. If you are too sure of yourself, you don't grow. You may feel confident in some things, but other fields come up as a challenge. And if you don't anticipate trouble, you will be in trouble.
Lucille Ball
#13. Lack of confidence is stunting if it stops us from achievement.
Stephen Richards
#14. It's such a capricious, strange existence, basing your life on the whims of others, and basing your ebbs and flows of confidence and lack of confidence on the fact that people either choose you or don't.
Jon Hamm
#15. Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.
Potter Stewart
#16. Lack of Confidence, low Self-Esteem, and depleted Mojo are symptoms of inadequate Strength Training.
Steve Ilg
#17. Butterflies tickle my insides. "You either have an Olympian-sized sense of self-importance, or you're overcompensating for a lack of confidence.
Amanda Bouchet
#18. Pause and remember - No one is coming to rescue you from yourself; your inner demons, your lack of confidence, your dissatisfaction with yourself and life. Only self-love and good decisions will rescue you.
Jennifer Young
#19. But twentysomethings who hide out in underemployment, especially those who are hiding out because of a lack of confidence, are not serving themselves.
Meg Jay
#21. We also all know people who could do so much more if only they believed in themselves. Like so many things, a lack of confidence can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. I don't know how to convince anyone to believe deep down that she is the best person for the job, not even myself.
Sheryl Sandberg
#22. Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
Vince Lombardi
#23. It's age. It's a diminution of energy and the worry that there are no new ideas. It's an increasing lack of confidence. I'm not the only one. I've checked with other people.
Stephen Sondheim
#24. Your lack of confidence is the number one reason why you're not experiencing success.
Ehab Atalla
#25. Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that lowers confidence levels even further, on and on.
Robert Greene
#26. Doubt is a lack of confidence or assurance that God will keep his promises. Faith is an active confidence that God's promises are always true.
James MacDonald
#27. In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to get results.
Harri Holkeri
#28. Lack of strength is alright, lack of confidence is what we should be worried about.
Sarvesh Jain
#29. I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.
Douglas Adams
#30. Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.
Vanna Bonta
#31. There's no such thing as lack of confidence. You either have it or you don't.
Rob Andrew
#32. All reluctance is a lack of confidence.
Todd Duncan
#33. People rise and fall to meet your level of expectations for them. If you express skepticism and doubt in others, they will return your lack of confidence with mediocrity. But if you believe in them and expect them to do well, they will go the extra mile trying to do their best.
John C. Maxwell
#34. When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#35. I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence
Doug McLeod
#36. Lack of confidence is what makes you want to change somebody else's mind. When you're OK, you don't need to convince anyone else in order to empower yourself.
Jada Pinkett Smith
#37. It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.
Sally Mann
#38. A patient's passivity must not be unilaterally interpreted as lack of motivation, resistance, lack of confidence, or the like. Many times, passivity is a function of inadequate knowledge and/or skills.
Marsha M. Linehan
#39. We need to recognize that lack of confidence does not equal humility. In fact, genuinely humble people have enormous confidence because it rests in a great God.
Beth Moore
#40. It isn't the lack of opportunities you are facing, more so the lack of confidence
Kevin Abdulrahman
#41. A major reason for procrastination is a feeling of inadequacy, a lack of confidence, or an inability in a key area of a task. Feeling weak or deficient in a single area is enough to discourage you from starting the job at all.
Brian Tracy
#42. 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
#43. It is not about which artist is more skilled than which other artist. It is about creating what is in you to create. A lack of confidence in oneself is like a thief, It steals from the world that which might be worthy.
Derek R. Audette
#44. In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.
Wendy Cope
#45. The most common reasons teams or individuals underperform are: Lack of clarity and focus Lack of ability Lack of confidence Lack of direction Lack of motivation
Anonymous
#46. The greatest defect we have in our prayers and in all that happens to us, particularly in that which concerns tribulations, is our lack of confidence ... Faith is great or little according to the measure of our confidence.
Francis De Sales
#47. Nor is faith meritorious; it is simply confidence in the goodness of God, and the lack of it is a reflection upon God's holy character.
A.W. Tozer
#48. It's good to be a little nervous. God compensates those with a lack of talent with an overabundance of self-confidence. -Gigi
Karen White
#49. Evelyn: ...Don't take my negativity for lack of self-confidence. I'm just a realist.
Maddie: Realistically dumb.
Rachel Hera
#50. You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very fine researchers lack intellectual daring. It's human nature to want to be cozy, secure. But that can be a cul de sac.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
#51. God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandalous and holy confidence that God will provide for tomorrow. Then we need not stockpile stuff in barns or a 401(k), especially when there is someone in need.
Shane Claiborne
#52. If, like me, you suffer from lack of self-confidence you'll know that the term is made up of two conflicting words, and that confidence isn't easily found in the self.
Fennel Hudson
#53. In rare moments of self-doubt, Dexter had once worried that a lack of intellect might hold him back in life, but here was a job where confidence, energy, perhaps even a certain arrogance were all that mattered, all qualities that lay within his grasp.
David Nicholls
#54. The problem is not lack of competence, it is confidence without competence.
Paul Gibbons
#55. I'm not cocky. I'm confident. It's a fine line, but there's a difference."
"Oh? And what's the difference?"
"It's simple. Confidence comes from knowing your skill and your worth while cocky attempts to cover the lack of both.
D.G. Whiskey
#56. O, lack and doubt and fear can only come
Because of plenty, confidence, and love!
They are the shadow-forms about their feet,
Because they are not perfect crystal-clear
To the all-searching sun in which they live.
Dread of its loss is Beauty's certain seal!
George MacDonald
#57. When you lack self-esteem, people you encounter can feel it like an invisible barrier separating them from you; conversely, confidence helps people to feel connected to you.
Sam Owen
#58. I don't lack confidence. I don't sweat. I don't want to get too Zen on you, but I have to run my own race.
Brad Grey
#59. Gold and silver are always in demand, regardless of clime, century, or government in power. But public confidence in and, hence, demand for paper money depends on the ultimate confidence - or lack thereof - of the public in the viability of the issuing government.
Murray Rothbard
#60. Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.
James Dyson
#61. How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passion for work, and enjoyment of life
in short, without you, my life is no life.
[Written to his wife, Mileva]
Albert Einstein
#62. I lack self-confidence. I don't know whether I shall ever get it. Perhaps it is better to be unsure of your self, as I am. But it is very tiring.
Audrey Hepburn
#63. They may lack confidence in their ability to leave a romantic relationship when and if necessary. Fear of abandonment eclipses all other matters, including their own happiness in a relationship.
Stan Tatkin
#64. You lack confidence, what if you discover that "YOU" stands for "You Own Universe
Habiba Umate
#65. My students, alas, usually lack the confidence to acknowledge what would be their most precious asset for learning: their ignorance.
Mark Edmundson
#66. When you lack self-esteem it's easy to keep attracting the wrong people into your life.
Sam Owen
#67. We all have tremendous potential, and we all are blessed with gifts. Yet, the one thing that holds all of us back is some degree of self-doubt. It is not so much the lack of technical information that holds us back, but more the lack of self-confidence.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#69. You can't help people being right for the wrong reasons ... This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an expression of political purity; it is an expression of a lack of self-confidence.
Arthur Koestler
#70. I sometimes lack confidence in public, although I am proud enough inwardly.
Robert Schumann
#71. Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief, in their own gifts.
Jean Vanier
#72. If we live a sedentary life, you're going to be depressed and lack confidence. So get out there and get active.
Jessie Pavelka
#73. Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.
George Packer
#74. The problem with the auto industry is layered upon the lack of consumer confidence. People are not buying cars. I don't care whether they're or American cars, or international cars.
Jennifer Granholm
#76. The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.
Arthur L. Williams Jr.
#77. Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.
Orison Swett Marden
#78. Little children gladly accept even the strangest stories that others tell them, because they lack either the context or the confidence to doubt. They go along because they don't know how to be alone, either physically or intellectually.
Orson Scott Card
#79. Disempowerment - whether defined in terms of a lack of self-confidence , apathy, fear, or an inability to take charge of one's own life - is perhaps the most unrecognised problem in Africa today.
Wangari Maathai
#80. Creative confidence and perseverance can make you free. Lack of faith in your own ability, surrender of will power, or panic replacing logic will make you into a spider's lunch.
Doug "Ten" Rose
#81. As well as many subspecies, the main blocks are fear of failure after previous success, fear of success due to a sense of unworthiness, lack of potential venue, jaded attitude, crisis of confidence, evidence of persistent poor quality, lackadaisical motivation, and common everyday shortage of ideas.
Robert Genn
#82. You don't lack motivation; you lack confidence in success - and that drives your motivation elsewhere, to avoid the feeling or the fear.
Marcia Conner
#83. If we lack either self-awareness or confidence in who we are, we run the risk of allowing others to define who we are or who we should be.
Lisa Locke
#84. In Buddhism we would say that you are lazy ... Despising yourself, thinking you are no good, saying 'I can't do this.' This is the mind of weakness. You must work to overcome it .
David Michie
#85. It's not a lack of opportunity around me. Rather, it's a lack of faith within me.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#86. You will discover that your greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence.
Anonymous
#87. How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?
Simone Weil
#88. If you feel inadequate to face challenges, unworthy of love or respect, untitled to happiness, and fear assertive thought, wants, or needs- if you lack basic self trust, self-respect, and self-confidence- your self-esteem deficiency will limit you, no matter what other assets you possess.
Nathaniel Branden
#89. It is not lack of ability, but lack of motivation, lack of focus, and lack of self-confidence that prevents most aspiring authors from finishing what they started.
Gudjon Bergmann
#90. I cannot approach someone; I lack the confidence when it comes to the guy I desire. I'm very good when it comes to matchmaking and hooking others up. But I can't help my own cause.
Kangana Ranaut
#91. Well, there was a lack of naked men throwing themselves at me in your absence unfortunately so I've got nothing to help boost your confidence - not that you need anyone to boost that already insanely high ego of yours.
Skyla Madi
#92. People who lack confidence in their judgement lack confidence in themselves
Marie Kondo
#93. The world will provide you with every imaginable obstacle, but the one most difficult to overcome will be the lack of faith in yourself. Leave it to others to have doubts about you.
Callie Khouri
#94. As a Coalition Government, we inherited a legacy of lack of trust and confidence in political system.
Andrew Lansley
#95. Indian economy is suffering from policy paralysis and lack of optimism. I am confident that with right kind of decisions, we can once again generate hope and confidence and turnaround our economy.
Narendra Modi
#96. It's ironic that those who lack self-confidence are often the ones who find it hardest to say no.
Fennel Hudson
#97. Most of my central characters lack confidence but overcome their timidity or low self-esteem to win through in the end, so I suppose there is a kind of wish-fulfillment at work.
Geraldine McCaughrean
#98. You won't ever build your confidence from a perception of lack. For it grows and evolves from realising who you are and what you already have.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#99. When you love yourself you will never need closure from any man. That doesn't mean you didn't love him, it simply means you love yourself enough to realize God has a better plan for you that doesn't involve one more conversation that will remind you of that person's lack of respect for you.
Shannon L. Alder
#100. A boy has other people do the talking for him; a man speaks his mind.
Shannon L. Alder
