Quotes About Confidence

The line between confidence and arrogance can be not only thin but also vague.

Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.

As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.

I learned that you can get away with a lot of shit if you just do it like it's all you knew how to do.

Sometimes it's hard to convince yourself that you're not an idiot.

learned that you can get away with a lot of shit if you just do it like it's all you knew how to do.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Great leaders don't make excuses. They make things better. They are not unrealistic or blind to the difficulties they face. They simply are not discouraged by them. They never lose confidence that the problems can be solved. They maintain a positive attitude. Great leaders don't blame their people for not being where they ought to be; they take their people from where they are to where they need to be. Great leaders never lose faith that this is possible.

He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.

He seemed the incarnate "Well, I told you so!"

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

A man that is afraid is never a man.

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

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Faith is confidence in our moral instincts as the best evidence we have or can have of the Divine will and the Divine character.

Cheer up, Zip," Frankie said to me, as we sat down at our table in the lunchroom. "So, you're not a speller. Big deal." "I'm also not an adder or a subtracter or a reader or a writer," I said. "Let's face it, Frankie. I'm a school flop.

side. "I'm going to be the best bookmark that ever held a place in a book. Look out, world, here comes Hank." Oh, and by the way, about the tuna casserole: If you ever see even a glop of it on your plate, change plates. I didn't, and my tongue is still not talking to me.

Why do you need to be like anyone? You're good as you are,

As though tears were the indispensable oil without which the machinery of mutual confidence could not run smoothly between the two sister, the sisters after their tears talked, not of what was uppermost in their minds, but though they talked of outside matters, they understood each other.

If a person does not believe himself capable of doing the best things in the world, then he starts to create the worst things.

He spoke with such self-confidence that his hearers could not be sure whether what he said was very witty or very stupid.

If you want to be right, I can give you that satisfaction. You're in the right; but I'm going all the same.

Speak to her now? But that's just why I'm afraid to speak—because I'm happy now, happy in hope, anyway… . And then?… . But I must! I must! I must! Away with weakness!

He had great faith in his own fortune. When planning anything he always felt in advance firmly convinced of success and fate smiled to him.