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Quotes About Confidence

You must train your intuition-you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.
~ Ingrid Bergman
The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
~ William Hazlitt
The Court's authority - possessed of neither the purse nor the sword -ultimately rests on substantial public confidence in its moral sanctions.
~ Felix Frankfurter
A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.
~ Lister Sinclair
Oh! Let us never, never doubt What nobody is sure about.
~ Hilaire Belloc
I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb . . . and I also know that I'm not blonde.
~ Dolly Parton
My sister says she never seems to get it together . . . either her rear looks good or her face does.
~ Sally Bucko
It's not wrinkles. I just have too much skin for the size of my face.
~ Barbara Colson
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a man, my son!
~ Rudyard Kipling
He that is down need fear no fall.
~ John Bunyan
Each golden sunrise ushers in new opportunities for those who retain faith in themselves, and keep their chins up.... Meet the sunrise with confidence. Fill every golden minute with right thinking and worthwhile endeavor. Do this and there will be joy for you in each golden sunset.
~ Alonzo Newton Benn
To sink a six-foot putt with thirty million people looking over your shoulder, convince yourself that, if you miss it, you will be embarrassed and poor.
~ Jack Nicklaus
Opera purges men of those hesitations and worries which make it difficult for them to acknowledge their importance to themselves. A good performance of an opera, that is, provides a language for us to speak of ourselves as we have always known we should speak.
~ Hamish Swanston
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
~ Maria Montessori
We noticed a crasher at the bar - that shows what a real man he is - he's here to show he's not ticked for not being asked.
~ Anonymous
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
~ George Bernard Shaw
On how to become a good speaker: Practice all the time. One of the best ways is to put a bunch of marbles in your mouth while you talk. Slowly but surely you take away a marble. And then, when you've lost all your marbles, you're a public speaker.
~ George Jessel
Thanks for the nice introduction. Next to my resume, that's the closest I'll ever come to perfection.
~ Anonymous
You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself - and how little I deserve it.
~ W. S. Gilbert
To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.
~ Mme. Jeanne Roland
A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows.
~ William Wordsworth
Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.
~ Cindy Crawford
I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the i point.
~ Susan Sarandon