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Quotes About Confidence

You have got to believe in yourself every time you go out there and race. If you have no faith in your ability all that training has been a waste of time.
~ Maurice Greene
What are we to do now? Must we hate the enemy to the end of time? The burden of hatred is the heaviest that man can bear upon this earth; and we should faint under the weight of it. On the other hand, we do not wish once more to be the dupes and victims of confidence and love.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Pénombre propice aux rencontres, à la confidence, aux échanges confiants. Calet n'a pas eu tort de vouloir s'y tenir et d'attendre qu'on vienne l'y retrouver. Brisée la glace du premier contact –un peu rude dans "La Belle Lurette"– des liens se tissent, intimes et solides, d'auteur à lecteur, d'homme à homme, de cœur à cœur. Ces attachements-là résistent au temps. (p. 117)
~ Unknown
I don't need faith.
~ Maurice Sendak
Coco Chanel famously said that "after forty nobody is young, but one can be irresistible at any age.
~ Unknown
When in doubt, head into the wind.
~ Max Brand
When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no.
~ Max Brooks
So when you go to a set and you just fully trust everybody, you know how hard everybody's working, you know that the people doing it are good and have such a strong vision - that's exactly my experience on 'New Girl ' and what my experience on 'Veronica Mars' was like. Everybody was just so great.
~ Max Greenfield
The damage to their prestige and confidence would have been immense, and Churchill might not have survived as prime minister through 1941.
~ Max Hastings
Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
~ Unknown
To lead the orchestra, you have to turn your back on the crowd.
~ Max Lucado
What you and I might rate as an absolute disaster, God may rate as a pimple-level problem that will pass. He views your life the way you view a movie after you've read the book. When something bad happens, you feel the air sucked out of the theater. Everyone else gasps at the crisis on the screen. Not you. Why? You've read the book. You know how the good guy gets out of the tight spot. God views your life with the same confidence. He's not only read your story...he wrote it.
~ Max Lucado
Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?
~ Max Lucado
If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.
~ Max Nordau
Sólo quien está seguro de no quebrarse cuando, desde su punto de vista, el mundo se muestra demasiado estúpido o demasiado abyecto para lo que él le ofrece; sólo quien frente a todo esto es capaz de responder con un «sin embargo»; sólo un hombre de esta forma construido tiene «vocación» para la política.
~ Max Weber
I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.
~ Maxine Hong Kingston
Think doubt and fail, think victory and succeed
~ Maxwell
Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.
~ Maxwell Maltz
We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
~ Maxwell Maltz
Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.
~ Maxwell Maltz
Low self esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.
~ Maxwell Maltz
If you can remember, worry, or tie your shoe, you can succeed with Psycho-Cybernetics!
~ Maxwell Maltz
Stop measuring yourself against "their" standards. You are not "them" and can never measure up. Neither can "they" measure up to yours—nor should they. Once you see this simple, rather self-evident truth, accept it, and believe it, your inferior feelings will vanish.
~ Maxwell Maltz