Top 69 Real Confidence Quotes
#1. You don't have to prove confidence; when you have it, it'll show.
Real confidence is quiet, tactful, civil, and humble.
Rosalinda Oropeza Randall
#2. Not cocky overconfidence that comes from collecting biased information and ignoring uncertainties, but the real confidence that comes from knowing you've made the best decision that you could.
Chip Heath
#3. When the Americans are behind you, they're behind you 100%, and this gives you real confidence as an architect. They expect you to lead a building project - to make the kind of big and costly decisions that, in Britain, have been handed over to project managers and cost-cutters.
David Chipperfield
#4. Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself- your strengths and your limitations -in contrast to depending on affirmation from others.
Judith M Bardwick
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. When you're young, you say it how it is, and even your views are, like, 'This is totally the truth', 'cos you don't know any difference, so there's a real confidence in your way of thinking.
Agyness Deyn
#8. Real confidence is based upon truth and fact. Get all the information you can about your field, your employer, and your own personal characteristics and history of success. Memorize
Philip Whitford
#9. I feel real confidence in working on the stage.
Orlando Bloom
#10. I think when you write an enigmatic character into a film, you have to have real confidence that the audience are going to go with it.
Gemma Arterton
#11. Like the rest of the genetic lottery, beauty is unfair. Everyone falls short of perfection, but some are luckier than others. Real confidence requires self-knowledge, which includes recognizing one's shortcomings as well as one's strengths.
Virginia Postrel
#12. This jewel is the wisdom and compassion that it takes to act not on behalf of ourselves but for all beings. This is where real confidence and competence come from. Once we possess this jewel, our life becomes blessed.
Sakyong Mipham
#13. 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
#14. You can't have self confidence without some real skills that enable you to be successful.
Erik Weihenmayer
#15. She might have come in the gallery faking the stride of a sexual, confident, dangerous woman, but on the way out, it was all real.
Victoria Helen Stone
#16. I think the Senate ought to realize that I have to have about me those in whom I have confidence; and unless they find a real blemish on a man, I do not think they ought to make partisan politics out of appointments to the Cabinet.
Calvin Coolidge
#17. Sometimes it feels weird being an actor surrounded by all these real fighters and you gotta keep your confidence high and do your best to learn it as quickly as possible.
Sean Faris
#18. When you forget about your self consciousness for a moment, you forget about your true self, your real you and your true purpose for a moment
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#19. Real happiness provides you the confidence that you never thought was obtainable.
Asa Don Brown
#21. 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
#22. Sometimes what you see is not real, and the reality is not what you see. Somewhere between both these reasoning resides a fact: where there is a lack of trust and confidence, perception will always differ with reality.
Ashish Patel
#23. Fake it, fake your confidence until it's real. I think it's a good way to live most of your life.
Marina And The Diamonds
#24. Real greatness is often hidden, humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. We must have strong self-confidence combined with deep humility.
Henri Nouwen
#25. I had considered envying men before
I pretend to envy things like their higher incidence of ungrounded confidence and monomania
but I don't really envy those things, and I'm not sure I even believe in them
but this, the covert-baby-having thing, was the first real thing.
Rivka Galchen
#26. When you stop living your life based on what others think of you real life begins. At that moment, you will finally see the door of self acceptance opened.
Shannon L. Alder
#27. Any man who behaves arrogantly with what little he knows, or claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing. Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek.
Suzy Kassem
#28. Real true faith is man's weakness leaning on God's strength. When man has no strength, if he leans on God he becomes powerful. The trouble is that we have too much strength and confidence in ourselves.
D.L. Moody
#29. Real Love for ourselves by definition includes every aspect of our lives - the good, the bad, the difficult, the challenging past, the uncertain future, as well as all the shameful, upsetting experiences and encounters we'd just as soon forget.
Sharon Salzberg
#30. Mindfulness develops the ability to be a real friend to ourselves.
Mare Chapman
#31. 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
#32. An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
Auguste Renoir
#33. It's not that I wrote those details, but photos can give you the confidence that you have a real feel for the landscape. Then you can invent with a solid kind of faith, and recreate a feel and flavor of the time, and, one hopes, a tonality, a sense of that time having been lived by those characters.
Chang-rae Lee
#34. Note to businesspersons and salespersons: "Be professional" does not mean "be a robot." Just be friendly and act like a real person. Cool?
Richie Norton
#35. I think what is happening is I think first of all there is confidence in the U.K. economy. We're in a German rather than a Greek position in international financial markets, which is very positive and keeps our debt service costs down, and we're also beginning to see real evidence of rebalancing.
Vince Cable
#36. God's reality is displayed to us in His Word or His world and we do not then feel in our heart any grief or longing or hope or fear or awe or joy or gratitude or confidence, then we may dutifully sing and pray and recite and gesture as much as we like, but it will not be real worship.
John Piper
#37. I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.
Paul Wellstone
#38. 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
#39. We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.
Sharon Salzberg
#40. In my experience, it tends to be a real reflection of someone's intelligence, confidence and sensitivity when they can just be real.
Chris Bauer
#41. Real self-confidence is not reflected in a title, an expensive suit, a fancy car, or a series of acquisitions. It is reflected in your mindset: your readiness to grow.
Carol S. Dweck
#42. Wake-up! Think for yourself, be yourself and return to what is real.
Bryant McGill
#43. Real beauty comes from confidence and being who you are, not aspiring to look or be someone else.
Philip DeFranco
#44. My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#45. The monitors indicated that it was a credible election, I think, in an overall sense, it apparently is a free and fair election, so it's a real milestone and one of the things we can take some little confidence in.
Warren Christopher
#46. You would have to say his number one accomplishment has been to inspire a sense of confidence in the country. That confidence, that optimism, not only gives President Obama a political cushion, but it could have a real world economic impact.
George Stephanopoulos
#47. Nurture your own confidence and make it real; don't pretend to be someone you're not.
Tom Hiddleston
#48. Some will wear masks their entire life because they care about what other people think, while others remove the mask to be who they truly are. The difference between the two is not the ability to trust others, but to trust in God.
Shannon L. Alder
#49. I had a lot of successes, but what really made me fearless was my complete failure at Zidd-Davis. Once you've lived through that, you know you can survive, and you're not as scared ... There's nothing to build confidence like real achievement, but also like real failure.
Esther Dyson
#50. The Great Wall of Facebook:
Having just visited the Great Wall of China, I'm thinking about the walls we build on FB. They are real. They keep people in and others out.
Build your wall carefully by answering this question:
What are you building your wall around?
Richie Norton
#51. I believe the ultimate source of blessings is within us. A good motivation and honesty bring self-confidence , which attracts the trust and respect of others. Therefore the real source of blessings is in our own mind.
Dalai Lama
#52. Which country is real, mine or the teacher's? My wish is that we might progressively lose our confidence in what we think we believe and the things we consider stable and secure, in order to remind ourselves of the infinite number of things still waiting to be discovered.
Antoni Tapies
#54. What I worry about is that people are losing confidence, losing energy, losing enthusiasm, and there's a real opportunity to get them into work.
Boris Johnson
#55. Be confident enough to show your true self to the world.
Fennel Hudson
#56. 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
#57. A series of small but real accomplishments gives people the energy and confidence to continue. For instance, a person who wants to write a novel might resolve to write one sentence each day. Or a person who wants to start running might resolve to run for one minute.
Gretchen Rubin
#58. I aine never seen a fox before. So, why should I be scared of you and I don't even-now know you a real fox for a fact?
Patricia C. McKissack
#59. If only you could see the greatness in yourself, you wouldn't envy the greatness in others.
Suzy Kassem
#60. When people who don't know you well admire you, they are seeing their projected illusion, not your real self.
In contrast, when people who know you well respect you, it is probably because you deserve it.
Haemin Sunim
#61. The secret to your purpose is to find what you feel is important, and not pursue what others would think is important. When you think highly of yourself, me thinking highly of you will never be enough!
Shannon L. Alder
#62. Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents.
Conrad Burns
#63. Your body can dictate your mind ... As I'm walking to the Octagon and I act with confidence, my body take over my mind, and I become confident for real.
Georges St-Pierre
#64. I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.
Jeannette Walls
#65. Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy.
Gloria Steinem
#66. I wasn't a perfect thing at 17. I didn't have confidence. I was hunched over and real embarrassed, and I didn't want to be in the limelight. But it changed over time.
Lindsay Davenport
#67. For a large corporation to be effective, it must be simple. For an organization to be simple, its people must have self-confidence and intellectual self-assurance. Insecure managers create complexity, real leaders do not clutter.
Jack Welch
#68. Whenever a man is known to seek promotion by intrigue, by temporizing, or by resorting to the haunts of vulgarity and vice for support, it may be inferred, with moral certainty, that he is not a man of real respectability, nor is he entitled to public confidence.
Noah Webster
#69. The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions: the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man.
Paul Sweezy
