Quotes About Confidence

was also true when it came to personal commitments. If he knew for sure a course of action was right, he was unstoppable. But if he had doubts, he sometimes withdrew, preferring not to think about things that did not perfectly suit him. As happened when Amelio had asked him what role he wanted to

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But when he and Zuse proposed it to the German Army in 1942, the commanders said they were confident that they would win the war before the two years it would take to build such a machine.

Long live impudence! It is my guardian angel in this world." That

He does not hesitate at our boldest measures, but rather seems to think us too irresolute.

In a paper he wrote in the spring of 1907, he began by exuding a joyful self-assurance about having neither the library nor the inclination to know what other theorists had written on the topic. "Other authors might have already clarified part of what I am going to say," he wrote. "I felt I could dispense with doing a literature search (which would have been very troublesome for me), especially since there is good reason to hope that others will fill this gap.

The difference between great philosophers who disagree is perhaps less considerable than that which separates them from their followers. Members of philosophic schools or coteries live on what others have seen, and the disciple usually applies his master's insights with a confidence which, most of the time, the master lacked.

I feel like my head is finally the right size. I feel like it finally fits around my mind.

Though assailed by hopelessness I was not afraid.

you can only have faith that what you are doing is the right thing.

There is no better antidote against entertaining too high an opinion of others than having an excellent one of ourselves at the very same time.

Everything is possible for him who possesses courage and activity….and to the timid and hesitating everything is impossible, because it seems so.

Your lordship's servant has a sensible, natural, pretty idea of military matters; somewhat irregular, though, and smells a little too much of selling the bear's skin before he has hunted him.

at that moment experienced the painful internal feeling of that peculiar spedes of shame, which well-constructed minds feel when they see others express a great assumption of importance, with a confidence that they are exciting admiration, when in fact they are only exposing themselves to ridicule.

Nay, we are authorized to believe that individuals have died in consequence of having supposed themselves to have taken poison, when, in reality, the draught they had swallowed as such was of an innoxious or restorative quality.

He was, besides, the child of a doting grandmother, whose too solicitous attention to him soon taught him a sort of diffidence in himself, with a disposition to overrate his own importance, which is one of the very worst consequences that children deduce from over-indulgence.

Don't be a yellow starburst be a pink one.

Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut.)

I would rather be certain of a good result than hopeful of a great one.

For 240 years, it's been a terrible mistake to bet against America.

Yeah, trust the fuckhead.

No one knows enough to be a pessimist

Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.

There is one grand lie - that we are limited. The only limits we have are the limits we believe.