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Quotes About Confidence

Painters should remember that the eye, as a general rule, is a good, simple, credulous organ very ready to take things on trust if it be told them with any confidence of assertion.
~ Samuel Butler
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
~ Samuel Butler
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and in exactly the right places.
~ Samuel Butler
we must judge men not so much by what they, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to do. If a man has done enough in either painting, music, or the affairs of life, to make me feel that I might trust him in an emergency he has done enough
~ Samuel Butler
Faith: You can do very little with it..But you can do nothing without it..!!
~ Samuel Butler
Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.
~ Samuel Dash
No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
No person who is enthusiastic about her work has anything to fear from life.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
~ Samuel Johnson
In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence
~ Samuel Johnson
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
~ Samuel Johnson
Clear your mind of can't.
~ Samuel Johnson
Towering in the confidence of twenty-one.
~ Samuel Johnson
Hope is necessary in every condition.
~ Samuel Johnson
Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
~ Samuel Johnson
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
~ Samuel Johnson
Nay, in many cases open denials of prayer prove the most excellent answers, and God's not hearing us is the most signal audience. Therefore at the foot of every prayer subscribe "thy will be done," and thou shalt enjoy preventing mercies that thou never soughtest, and converting mercies to change all for the best, resting confident in this, that having asked according to his will he heareth thee.
~ Samuel Lee
This, I suppose, makes me such a sauce-box, and bold-face, and a creature, and all because I won't be a sauce-box and bold-face indeed.
~ Samuel Richardson
My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.
~ Samuel Rutherford
Basch: So why don't you ask her out? The Runt: I'm scared she wouldn't like me and say no. -So what? What have you got to lose? -The possibility -if she says no- that she might have said yes. Whatever I do, I don't want to lose that possibility.
~ Samuel Shem
Key concept," said the Fat Man, "to think that you're doing a shitty job. If you resign yourself to doing a shitty job, you go ahead and get the job done, and since we're all in the ninety-ninth percentile of interns, at one of the best ternships in the world, what you do turns out to be a terrific job, a superlative job. Don't forget that four out of every ten interns in America can't speak English.
~ Samuel Shem
and if I asked you to name all the things that you love, how long would it take for you to name yourself?
~ Sana Dabbas
Never doubt your capacity to achieve and accomplish your goals. The world is your oyster, go find you pearls.
~ Sana Dabbas