Quotes About Confidence

I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

Tools are totems, an important weapon in the fight against fear.

There is that in the Notre Dame fan which makes him intolerable to others, namely, his unassailable confidence that in a well-ordered universe Notre Dame is meant to win all of its games.

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Are you incapable of doing what these men and women have done? Do you think them capable of achieving this by their own resources and not by the Lord their God? . . . Why are you relying on yourself, only to find yourself unreliable? Cast yourself upon him, do not be afraid. He will not withdraw himself so that you fall. Make the leap without anxiety, he will catch you and heal you.

Hatred for sin is important. Confidence in the mercy of God is even more important.

I'm going to stop worrying about what might happen to us. With the Lord's help we've been able to make ourselves a good living ever since Father died, and the fortune that has befallen us here in Medford certainly doesn't lead me to believe we will be abandoned now.

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

Accept your genius and say what you think.

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear.

What a new face courage puts on everything.