Quotes About Confidence

Audacity, more audacity and always audacity.

I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons- but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!

I think that life is a bit like a biscuit that you only get one bite at. The best thing is to just go for it. If you feel an inclination for something, just go for it. Life is too short to muck about doubting yourself. It's better to try and just shore yourself up with some sort of confidence. And get on with it!

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

I decided to accept as true my own thinking.

Someone else's vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it 'cause in the end it's all you have. Lose it and you lose yourself and everything else. I should have listened to myself.

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

My friend Doris Bry says now that I've ruined her spelling because I misspell with such confidence.

Someone else's vision will never be as good as you own vision of yourself. Live and die with it, because in the end, that's all you have. Lose it and lose yourself and everything else.

I don't see why we ever think of what others think of what we do—isn't it enough just to express yourself.

I never did learn to spell. My friend Doris Bry says now that I've ruined her spelling because I misspell with such confidence.

Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.

It looked immensely sure of itself as it lay there, flamboyant, on the sand, and immensely dangerous, too.

Theodore had an apparently inexhaustible fund of knowledge about everything, but he imparted this knowledge with a sort of meticulous diffidence that made you feel he was not so much teaching you something new, as reminding you of something which you were already aware of, but which had, for some reason or other, slipped your mind.

I have never been a very brave man," Uncle Moses said. "Nor I," Zalmann added. Eva smiled at them. "You are brave enough.

If you have a hat -

Denise: "So your present project is ready to pass to the testing people?" Ralph: "Absolutely." Denise: "Okay, since you're so sure it's adequately tested, I'm going to make you the following generous offer: If fewer than three bugs turn up in your component during testing, I will give you a raise. But if three or more bugs turn up during testing, you won't earn a raise this year." Ralph: "Um . . ." Denise: "Um what?" "Could I just have the component back for a few little tests I want to do?

There's never a reason to trust someone. If there's a reason, then it's not trust.

A lamp in a windless grove Does not wink; A mind with nothing to prove Does not blink.

If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

Trust your gut.

We each need to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.