Quotes About Confidence

Trust funds can never be a substitute for a fund of trust.

At City, when I was playing, I knew that at some point, the substitution board would go up, and I was going to come off because the manager didn't have trust in me. Then, you start to lose your confidence on the pitch.

I like to use the stage and there's nothing subtle about me.

You can learn the subtle language of interior style, but many people simply buy it. If you put yourself in the hands of someone who knows what they are doing, you can be confident it will look good.

Can I be a leading man? I don't believe myself to be; I don't think that I am, but I'm in this place as a performer where I think about how to make things smaller, more subtle.

The thing about people from Chicago and the Northwest suburbs is that they're very cocky. I think that serves us well in the show business world.

When I was little, I had concerts on the subway, and old ladies came up to me like, 'You are so good!'

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans.

People who succeed in my job are people who are not afraid to look silly.

From the time I was a student, I think I was very confident in my raw abilities. I would think that, given a problem, I was as likely to solve it as anybody. But that's not enough in science to succeed, really.

'They' are the people that don't believe in you, that say that you won't succeed. We stay away from 'They.'

Being genuinely humble and being myself has helped me succeed in my career.

I think there's a misconception about the industry, that you have to change who you are to look 'cool' in order to succeed, and that's just not true.

You have to believe in yourself, that you're gonna succeed.

I am convinced we shall succeed. I have faith in this country, because I have faith in its people.

I used all that doubt as fuel for my own music, fuel for my drive to succeed.

To be entirely honest, I am an extremely confident person, and I don't think I would have gotten into this business if I felt that I wasn't going to succeed and I intend to be in this business, for the rest of my life.

You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.

In order to succeed... you have to put a stake in the ground.

Put a Post-It note on your mirror that says: 'Someone has to succeed. There's no reason why it shouldn't be me.' Repeat before every audition.

Playing in the playoffs is the best basketball in the world, and if you can learn under that pressure, succeed under that pressure, it gives you more confidence the next year.

I was raised in a very happy nest by very happy people, and I like to think that those are enough ingredients to make me succeed at Dior.

The most important characteristic that has allowed me to succeed is confidence. I have always been comfortable in my own skin, and even when I was just starting out in my career, had the strength and self-assurance to ask tough questions and push for answers.