Quotes About Confidence

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

You may have confidence in the Lord's service. The Savior will help you do what He has called you to do, be it for a time as a worker in the Church or forever as a parent. You may pray for help enough to do the work and know that it will come.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours...If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

The soil, it appears, is suited to the seed, for it has sent its radicle downward, and it may now send its shoot upward also with confidence. Why has man rooted himself thus firmly in the earth, but that he may rise in the same proportion into the heavens above?

I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up.

Our doubts are so musical that they persuade themselves.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Self-emancipation

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours… . In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.

You will find, if you think for a moment, that the people who influence you are the people who believe in you.

The man who has no opinion of himself at all can never be hurt if others do not acknowledge him. Hence, be meek. He who is without expectation cannot fret if nothing comes to him. It is self-evident that these things are so. The lowly man and the meek man are really above all other men, above all other things.

If we try to influence or elevate others, we shall soon see that success is in proportion to their belief of our belief in them. Greatest Thing in the World.

You will find . . . that the people who influence you are people who believe in you.

I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do.

I could only get on at all by taking nature into my confidence and my account, by treating my monstrous ordeal as a push in a direction unusual, of course, and unpleasant, but demanding, after all, for a fair front, only another turn of the screw of ordinary human virtue.

One doesn't defend one's god; one's god is in himself a defense.

Which of my two critics was I to believe? I didn't worry about it and very soon made up my mind they were both idiots.

When you are successful you naturally feel more at home

He's the victim of a critical age; he has ceased to believe in himself and he doesn't know what to believe in.