Quotes About Confidence

I had also read somewhere that if a man didn't truly believe or understand what he was espousing, somehow he could do a more convincing job

I drank in my words like a thirsty man. I even began to believe them.

I'm not usually good, but when i am, i'm goddamn good.

she likes that and I like it too because to/make a thing true all you've/got to do is believe

I decided to put on my new suit and go out and find a woman, a beautiful one, of course, to support a man of my still-hidden talents.

I guess what I meant is that you are better off doing nothing than doing something badly. But the problem is that bad writers tend to have the self-confidence, while the good ones tend to have self-doubt. [1989 interview in the literary journal "Arete". In response to the question Your poem 'friendly advice to a lot of young men' says that one is better off living in a barrel than he is writing poetry. Would you give this same advice today?]

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence. -- Dünyan?n sorunu, ak?ll? insanlar ÅŸüphelerle doluyken, aptallar?n özgüvenle dolu olmas?d?r.

Bad writers tend to have self-confidence, while the good ones tend to have self-doubt.

so I let them have their little victories which they need far more than I do.

Por muy pequeño que sea un hombre, siempre descubrirá que puede serlo más.

in fact," I told her, "I am a genius but nobody knows it but me.

he had outwitted me: praise was the only thing I couldn't handle

Dehsetin dehset olduguna inandiginiz anda daha az dehsete dusersiniz.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence." ? Charles Bukowski

We only have ourselves to go on, and it's enough

SCREW YOU GUYS! I'M A GENIUS!

When the dry winds of doubt begin to blow, just proclaim more boldly that which you hear in your spirit." He said that was what He did at the tomb of Lazarus.

For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith" (Mark 11:23).

Yet Catchings would in just ten years very nearly destroy the firm, proving once again that articulate optimists encouraged by early successes and armed with financial leverage can become hugely destructive.

ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge:

Ignorance breeds confidence more often than knowledge

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know littler, and not those who know much, who so positively assertive that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

the one thing we owe absolutely to God is never to be afraid of anything.

Going bearded seemed one less thing to have to fail at.