Quotes About Confidence

L'audace! L'audace! Toujours l'audace!

That was the tribute written to twenty-year-old Chester W. Nimitz by the editors of the Lucky Bag, the Naval Academy yearbook of 1905. The quote, from Wordsworth's Excursion, was apt: it got at Nimitz's qualities of serenity, humility, and good-fellowship. He had a pleasant face and an easy manner. He was comfortable in his own skin. He was one of those rare souls who managed to be both supremely confident and genuinely modest.

Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?

I don't think your insecurity ever disappears. Sometimes I think the more successful you become the less secure you feel. This is kind of frightening, really.

It's just as well that bicycles don't suffer from inferiority complexes!' cracked Audrey.

I'm bullshit proof.

He put on his silk shirts and his gators to go out and do his thing, you know?

player." I nodded, got up, took the mic, kicked some rhymes that were floating around in my head—real impromptu—and won first prize.

Before a man can become great, he must look foolish to the crowd.

TÚ quieta, aunque el trapecio todavía se mueva y te delate.

The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.

None meets harm who knows his capacity.

When you are still fragmentated, lacking certainty — what difference does it make what your decisions are?

None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

Trust is needed before lessons can be learnt.

Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to.

Debating whether one trusts or not is a sign that one does not want to trust at all, and therefore is still incapable of it.

Sé un perro, pero no seas un hermano menor.

Existe la afirmación Sufi de que la verdad no se descubre o mantiene por la mera repetición de enseñanzas. Su comprensión sólo puede mantenerse mediante la continua experiencia de ella. Y es en la experiencia de la verdad donde los Sufis siempre han depositado su confianza. Por tanto el sufismo no es "Haz como digo y no como hago", o incluso "Haz como hago", sino "Experiméntalo y conocerás".

La confianza es necesaria antes de que se puedan aprender lecciones.

Valiente es el ladrón que lleva una lámpara en su mano.

Quien vaya a ser sabio se menosprecia a sí mismo. Sólo los ignorantes confían en su propio juicio.

Nadie debería decir: "Yo puedo confiar" o "Yo no puedo confiar" hasta que sea dueño de la opción de confiar o no confiar.

La gente que no puede confiar son ellos mismos no confiables, y por lo tanto, no se les puede confiar cosas importantes.