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Quotes About Confidence

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
~ Napoleon Hill
I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior.
~ Hedy Lamarr
He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack.
~ Maya Angelou
Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it.
~ Giacomo Casanova
Macho doesn't prove mucho.
~ Zsa Zsa Gabor
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
~ J. B. Priestley
You don't need a man, you need a champion.
~ Javier Bardem
In all successful relationships, the man respects the woman - and it takes a special guy to handle a successful woman. You have to be confident in who you are and what you do.
~ Laird Hamilton
Feller was an ebullient man, who would rather be wrong than undecided.
~ Paul Halmos
I seem to have no dress sense at all. I'm always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as "looking like an unmade bed." He was right!
~ Orson Welles
I am the man who put the hair in hair metal.
~ Sebastian Bach
A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
~ Jonathan Swift
Europe has certainly lost confidence in itself. This was something that, when I was a young man, we never imagined would happen.
~ Bernard-Henri Levy
If a general shows confidence in his men but always insists on his orders being obeyed, the gain will be mutual.
~ Sun Tzu
All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief with chains of the Constitution.
~ Thomas Jefferson
For me, it's interesting because I never thought of myself as an action man, but apparently I can do it, so that's good to know.
~ Jamie Campbell Bower
As a southern man, there's two things I'm definitely not scared of: bow ties and white pants.
~ Justin Townes Earle
Putting on a beautifully designed suit elevates my spirit, extols my sense of self, and helps define me as a man to whom details matter.
~ Gay Talese
I do not need a man. I am devoted to masturbation. I think it's probably one of the most pleasurable experiences in life.
~ Gloria Stuart
To a woman who knows her own mind men can only be a minor consideration.
~ Marie Bashkirtseff
I have a personality defect where I sort of refuse to see myself as an underdog... It's because of my parents. They raised me with the entitlement of a tall, blond, white man.
~ Mindy Kaling
I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.
~ Bill Paxton
So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
~ Baruch Spinoza