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Quotes About Confidence

It is very humiliating to ask," remarked Philippe; "I would rather see you taking as I do, without a word; it shows more confidence. In the army, if a comrade dies, and has a good pair of boots, and you have a bad pair, you change, that's all." "Yes, but you don't take them while he is living.
~ Honore de Balzac
Les erreurs de la femme viennent presque toujours de sa croyance au bien, ou dans sa confiance dans le vrai
~ Honore de Balzac
A thing worthy of note is the natural intrepidity of lawyers. Whether from the habit of receiving a great many persons, or from the deep sense of the protection conferred on them by the law, or from confidence in their missions, they enter everywhere, fearing nothing, like priests and physicians.
~ Honore de Balzac
The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true.
~ Honore de Balzac
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
~ Honore de Balzac
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
~ Honore de Balzac
The man who remains calm inevitably takes command of a situation.
~ Unknown
And the man who remains calm inevitably takes command of a situation.
~ Unknown
You may loan your last dollar to a friend; but never loan him your axe, unless you are certain that he knows how to use it.
~ Horace Kephart
Citizens, the priority now is to recover trust between the Egyptian - amongst the Egyptians and to have trust and confidence in our economy and international reputation and the fact that the change that we have embarked on will carry on and there's no going back to the old days.
~ Hosni Mubarak
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
~ Howard Aiken
Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
~ Howard Aiken
You seem damn sure of yourself for a man your age?" "I am as old as I can be at my age. I don't know very much, but I know the water.
~ Howard Fast
In my experience people who can't stop making jokes about their identity aren't easy with it. The man of the world accepts who he is and the influences which have made him, and then gets on with living in the world.
~ Howard Jacobson
But I do think effective leaders share two intertwined attributes: an unbridled level of confidence about where their organizations are headed, and the ability to bring people along.
~ Howard Schultz
I've been really lucky. And I really, genuinely believe that if you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they'll prove you right.
~ Howard Schultz
Part 2: Confidence
~ Howard Schultz
Look at you.
~ Howard Stern
But it comes from someplace that knows who you are. I think that we can decide if we can be great or not.
~ Howard Stern
unrelenting certainty.
~ Howard Stern
Hair style is the final tip-off whether or not a woman really knows herself.
~ Hubert de Givenchy
They luxuriated in the feeling of deep and all pervading satisfaction, a feeling of knowing absolutely that all was well with the world and them and that the world was not only their oyster it was also their linguine with clam sauce. Not only were all things possible, but all things were theirs.
~ Unknown
Si Non Oscillas, Noli Tintinnare
~ Unknown
If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.
~ Hugh Hefner