Quotes About Confidence

Any woman who is sure of her own wits is a match at any time for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

I did what you would probably have done in my place. I modestly declared myself to be quite unequal to the task imposed upon me—and I privately felt, all the time, that I was quite clever enough to perform it.

It is quite possible that I may be altogether wrong in this idea. My own impression, however, is, that I am right.

Even baldness, when it is only baldness over the forehead (as in his case), is rather becoming than not in a man, for it heightens the head and adds to the intelligence of the face.

I give you better than proof, gentlemen; I give you my positive opinion.

Don't doubt my courage, Walter, it's my weakness that cries, not me.

Some people in my position would now have felt rather crestfallen, and would have begun to think that they had made a very foolish mistake. Not the faintest misgiving of any kind troubled me. I did not feel in the slightest degree depreciated in my own estimation. And even now, after a lapse of three hours, my mind remains, I am happy to say, in the same calm and hopeful condition.

Let us trust to ourselves, see all with our own eyes; Let these be our oracles, our tripods and our gods.

To hate is to acknowledge our inferiority and our fear; we do not hate a foe whom we are confident we can overcome.

He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence; he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully."88 "Minds are conquered not by arms but by greatness of soul."89

that I think many things with the clearest conviction, . . . which I never have the courage to say; but I will never say anything which I do not think.

Until a person has discovered and dares to follow his own inner gleam, we may be sure of one thing: he will be leaning in either negative or positive dependence on someone outside himself!

He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out.

It was born of self-confidence, though, this attitude – of success, not chippiness, that debilitating English disease. He

Take a look around," the instructor had advised. "Ask yourself if there's anyone else who is better qualified to do the job. Not in the entire galaxy, but right there, at that point in time. If the answer is 'yes,' ask them to accept command, and do everything you can to support them. If the answer is 'no,' which it will be ninety-nine percent of the time, then take your best shot. That's all any of us can do.

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.

I can stand on my own feet; I don't need any man's mahogany desk to prop me up

You tell 'em, big boy; treat 'em rough.

that adult trait of being convinced of anything by an assumption of silent superiority

Now and then you meet a man that ain't ever been afraid, not even of himself." –William Faulkner

We will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam.