Quotes About Confidence

The orator persuades by moral character when his speech is delivered in such a manner as to render him worthy of confidence; for we feel confidence in a greater degree and more readily in persons of worth in regard to everything in general, but where there is no certainty and there is room for doubt, our confidence is absolute. But this confidence must be due to the speech itself, not to any preconceived idea of the speaker's character;

For there are two reasons why human beings face danger calmly: they may have no experience of it, or they may have means to deal with it: thus when in danger at sea people may feel confident about what will happen either because they have no experience of bad weather, or because their experience gives them the means of dealing with it.

Confidence is characteristic of a person of hope

Young people] are high-minded because they have not yet been humbled by life, nor have they experienced the force of circumstances. … They think they know everything, and are always quite sure about it. Rhetoric, fourth century BCE (BC)

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

So too then is it with the Virtues: for by acting in the various relations in which we are thrown with our fellow men, we come to be, some just, some unjust: and by acting in dangerous positions and being habituated to feel fear or confidence, we come to be, some brave, others cowards.

whenever a reasonable explanation comes to sight as to why a thing appears to be but is not true, this makes for greater trust in the truth.

You have to respect yourself before you can command a guy's respect.

Hey, you look at your tits; I'll look at mine! (Michael Tolliver, Tales of the City)

Unless your hearts are free from worldly hopes and worldly fears you will never speak boldly as you ought to speak.

If you don't believe in yourself, then how will anyone else believe in you?

When you have a well developed body and you're confident, you see people bending your way, wanting to be on your side, wanting to do things for you.

6 rules to succes: 1. Trust yourself; 2. Break some rules; 3. Don't be afraid to fail; 4. Ignore the naysayers; 5. Work like hell; 6. Give something back.

In a rare flash of humor, she had replied: "Woody, a commander can be wrong, but never uncertain.

Woody, a commander can be wrong, but never uncertain.

He felt confident that when he pulled open the drawer of that desk, he would find a Gideon Bible inside it….

The manuals that Otto gave me said that you couldn't hurt those things if you dropped them from the top of the Trump Tower. Besides," he added, "they aren't even armed yet. Right, Herr Admiral?

L'audace—toujours l'audace!

To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.

In my inmost heart I believed that I could succeed where others failed, and now I had the opportunity to test myself.

to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.

deepest moment. Your recent services to one of the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which can hardly be exaggerated.

I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings with Sherlock Holmes.

You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him.