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Quotes About Confidence

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end.
~ Henry Ford
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Vacillating people seldom succeed. They seldom win the solid respect of their fellows. Successful men and women are very careful in reaching decisions, and very persistent and determined in action thereafter.
~ L. G. Elliott
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
~ Henry David Thoreau
To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor; to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach east by traveling west. There is no philosophy which will help man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so, and thus attracting failure. No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.
~ Charles Baudouin
The ability to form friendships, to make people believe in you and trust you is one of the few absolutely fundamental qualities of success. Selling, buying, negotiating are so much smoother and easier when the parties enjoy each other's confidence. The young man who can make friends quickly will find that he will glide, instead of stumble, through life.
~ John J. McGuirk
Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement.
~ Thomas N. Carruther
We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think that we can!
~ George Matthew Adams
Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to that alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.
~ Charles Wesley
A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
~ Lord Darling
I forgot they were talking about me. They sound so wonderfully convincing.
~ Jean Giraudoux
Remember, if God had wanted this to be perfect, he never would have had me up here.
~ Anonymous
Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
~ Brendan Francis
We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands.
~ Thomas E. Dewey
Take therefore no thought of the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.
~ Bible
One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Only an incompetent mind is content to express itself incompetently.
~ J. M. Barker
To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.
~ Chinese proverb
Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.
~ Adolf Hitler
My mother said, "You won't amount to anything because you procrastinate." I said, "Just wait."
~ Judy Tenuta
It gives me great strength to know that half the people I meet are below average.
~ Anonymous
I may have faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.
~ Jimmy Hoffa
I'm not at all stuck up . . . although, judging from those around me, I have every right to be.
~ Anonymous
I've got nothing against girls in tight sweaters - darn it!
~ Anonymous