Quotes About Confidence

As the year of 1931 ran its uneasy course, with five million wage earners out of work, the middle classes facing ruin, the farmers unable to meet their mortgage payments, the Parliament paralyzed, the government floundering, the eighty-four-year-old President fast sinking into the befuddlement of senility, a confidence mounted in the breasts of the Nazi

This government was Papen's conception, his creation, and he was confident that with the help of the staunch old President, who was his friend, admirer and protector, and with the knowing support of his conservative colleagues, who outnumbered the obstreperous Nazis eight to three, he would dominate it.

if anybody other than myself had been at the head of the Reich! Anyone you care to mention would have lost his nerve. I was obliged to lie, and what saved us was my unshakable obstinacy and my amazing aplomb."29

On the contrary, they supported it with genuine enthusiasm. Somehow it imbued them with a new hope and a new confidence and an astonishing faith in the future of their country.

If the techs are on it we're fine, but Briamiv and his buddy could fuck up a full stop at the end of a sentence.

Come on now," Vardy said. "You can have faith in anything," Vardy said. "Everything's fit to be worshipped.

Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it.

Politeness wins the confidence of princes

If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked

Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things.

He who depends on himself will attain the greatest happiness.

But like all the other women I have referred to, she expressed herself with passionate and disarming effrontery.

As Mark Twain said, "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.

should not be "losing 10 pounds," it should be something intrinsically motivating, such as "Fitting into my sexy black pants (without gastrointestinal distress)." Suddenly, your weight-loss mission starts looking more like a playful quest, with frequent victories along the way, and less like a daily weigh-in on the bathroom scale

motivation comes from feeling—knowledge isn't enough to motivate change. But motivation also comes from confidence. The Elephant has to believe that it's capable of conquering the change. And there are two routes to building people's confidence so that they feel "big" relative to their challenge. You can shrink the change or grow your people (or, preferably, both).

Checklists provide insurance against overconfidence.

Not cocky overconfidence that comes from collecting biased information and ignoring uncertainties, but the real confidence that comes from knowing you've made the best decision that you could.

To get the Elephant off its duff, you need to reassure it that the task won't be so bad.

It's realizing that I can do this. I'm in charge.

When you've celebrated moving from 1 to 2, and then from 2 to 3, you gain confidence that you can make the next advance.

A small win reduces importance ('this is no big deal'), reduces demands ('that's all that needs to be done'), and raises perceived skill levels ('I can do at least that')." All three of these factors will tend to make change easier and more self-sustaining.

The project often feels like a failure in the middle. But if the team persists through this valley of angst and doubt, it eventually emerges with a growing sense of momentum. Team members begin to test out their new designs, and they realize the improvements they've made, and they keep tweaking the design to make it better. And they come to realize, we've cracked this problem. That's when the team reaches the peak of confidence.

He inspired them to feel more determined, more ready, more motivated. And when you build people up in this way, they develop the strength to act.

At work and in life, we often pretend that we want truth when we're really seeking reassurance: "Do these jeans make me look fat?" "What did you think of my poem?" These questions do not crave honest answers.