Quotes About Confidence

It happens very often that those whom men esteem highly are more seriously endangered by their own excessive confidence. Hence, for many it is better not to be too free from temptations, but often to be tried lest they become too secure, too filled with pride, or even too eager to fall back upon external comforts.

Vano es el que pone su esperanza en los hombres o en las criaturas

Whenever a new scholar came to out school, I used to confront him at recess with the following words: 'My name's Tom Bailey: what's your name?' If the name struck me favorably, I shook hands with the new pupil cordially; but if it didn't I would turn on my heel, for I was particular in this point. Such names as Higgins, Wiggins, and Spriggins were deadly afronts to my ear; while Lapgdon, Wallace, Blake, and the like, were passing words to my confidence and esteem.

The naked pinch hitter takes only one thing to the plate: his raw, and somewhat irrational, confidence in himself. That this confidence is so unreasonable adds to its dignity.

We trust as we love, and we trust where we love; if you love Christ much surely you will trust Him much.

The more the soul is conformed to Christ, the more confident it will be of its interest in Christ.

Well, they may not be civilized, but they are certainly confident--and this confidence is one of the open-handed pleasures of early Irish literature.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

It is an everlasting duty, valid in our day as in that, the duty of being brave. Valor is still value. The first duty for a man is still that of subduing Fear. We must get rid of Fear; we cannot act at all till then. A man's acts are slavish, not true but specious; his very thoughts are false, he thinks too as a slave and coward, till he have got Fear under his feet.

Tell a man that he is brave, and you help him become so.

Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so.

It was eventually named "the sub-commission on the historical dimension to implement a dialogue with the aim to restore mutual confidence between the two nations, including an impartial scientific examination of the historical records and archives to define existing problems and formulate recommendations.

Diffident people often do not find it difficult to acquiesce to another's decisions either because they are reluctant to assume responsibility for important decisions or because they fear failure and criticism.

I'm not a fashion person. I basically like to wear navy blue, and I don't need a lot of extras.

Even when I was in high school and the Navy, I was the guy who could rip somebody, and they'd laugh at it.

I have a good team around me and I don't feel anything is anywhere near out of my league.

My character in 'True Grit' would set these goals for herself that seemed near impossible, but to her they were possible. She was never going to believe anything else other than that.

I feel less pressure to dress for the eyes of other people now. I think that happened once I started modelling, near the end of high school.

You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.

I'm not nearly as brave and confident in some of the ways that I think stand-ups are.

I wouldn't necessarily say I'm arrogant. I'm just confident.

I have to look at myself in the mirror and tell myself that I'm beautiful, even if I don't necessarily believe it.

My definition of cool is finding your own definition of cool and not necessarily taking your lead from what other people tell you or from what you might read from magazines or see on TV.