Quotes About Confidence

As history confirms, people will change their minds about almost anything, from which god they worship to how they style their hair. But when it comes to existential judgments, human beings in general have an unfalteringly good opinion of themselves and their condition in this world and are steadfastly confident they are not a collection of self-conscious nothings.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect, in sum, means that the dumber you are, the more confident you are that you're not actually dumb.

the more specific reason that unskilled or incompetent people overestimate their abilities far more than others is because they lack a key skill called "metacognition.

A good opinion of ourselves is exceedingly necessary in private life, but absolutely necessary in public life, and of the utmost importance in supporting national character.

The valor of a country may be learned by the bravery of its soldiery, and the general cast of its inhabitants, but confidence of success is best discovered by the active measures pursued by men of property; and when the spirit of enterprise becomes so universal as to act at once on all ranks of men, a war may then, and not till then, be styled truly proper.

When you don't know anything, imagining you know something certainly does cheer you up." "It's the way of the optimist.

Wherefore it ought to be the first concern of every Christian to lay aside all confidence in works and grow in the knowledge, not of works, but of Christ Jesus, who suffered and rose for him." — ?Martin Luther

But when we rise to the heavenly tribunal and place before our eyes that supreme Judge . . . then in an instant the vain confidence of men perishes and falls and conscience is compelled . . . to confess that it has nothing upon which it can rely before God." — Francis Turretin

Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. don't take counsel of your fears.

I don't know yet what I am capable of doing, but, by God, I have genius -- I know it too well to blush behind it.

Then we heard, rather faintly, in the receiver: "If all's well, why worry?

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours..

Peter, I would hate to have Lightfoot try

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

There is no adventure in life equal to that of being, and asserting, one's self.

Yes. I declare—easy as kittens.

Si estás poseído por el temor no pierdas el tiempo tratando de "matar" el temor; en cambio, cultiva el valor y el temor desaparecerá.

If you are possessed of Fear, do not waste time trying to "kill out" Fear, but instead cultivate the quality of Courage, and the Fear will disappear.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

Ignorance is bold, and knowledge is reserved

In general, the men of lower intelligence won out. Afraid of their own shortcomings and of the intelligence of their opponents, so that they would not lose out in reasoned argument or be taken by surprise by their quick-witted opponents, they boldly moved into action. Their enemies,on the contrary, contemptuous and confident in their ability to anticipate, thought there was no need to take by action what they could win by their brains.

Therefore hold this fact of not being the object of your own disapproval

Scared of words? I don't see why anybody ought to fear words. Words are tools; you have to know how to use them to get done the job you want to get done. Can't do the work if you're scared of the work.