Quotes About Confidence

We are all afraid - for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do. The personal commitment and the emotional commitment working together as one, has made the Ascent of Man.

Many a man has walked up to the opportunity for which he has long been preparing himself, looked it full in the face, and then begun to get cold feet... when it comes to betting on yourself and your power to do the thing you know you must do or write yourself down a failure, you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

You don't know what pressure is until you play for $5 with only $2 in your pocket.

In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.

Soon after a hard decision something inevitably occurs to cast doubt. Holding steady against that doubt usually proves the decision.

When you're my size in the pros, fear is a sign that you're not stupid.

Courage is the right disposition toward fear.

Courage is never letting your actions be influenced by your fears.

There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. -General Omar N. Bradley This morning I threw up at a board meeting. I was sure the cat was out of the bag, but no one seemed to think anything about it; apparently it's quite common for people to throw up at board meetings.

I wish I was as sure of anything as Macaulay is of everything.

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that, to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

There comes a time when you've got to say, "Let's get off our asses and go ..." I have always found that if I move with 75 percent or more of the facts I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.

Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown.

Of that there is no manner of doubt - No probable, possible shadow of doubt - No possible doubt whatever.

When in doubt, win the trick.

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable ... we must be content to creep along the ground, and can never soar.

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cock-sure of many things that were not so.

I'm often wrong, but never in doubt.

The demand is for certainty is a sign of weakness.