Quotes About Confidence

All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.

Don't you feel terror in the presence of the infinite spaces that Pascal speaks of?" She replied: "Why should I feel afraid? Isn't this world the house of God? Instead of frightening me, they move me to take flight into my soul with the confidence of a creature of God.

If it is humanly possible, you should plan to have one or more in-person meetings with your boss early on. It is essential to make face-to-face connections early on to begin to establish a basis of confidence and trust (the same is true if you're leading a virtual team). So if this means you need to fight for the resources and fly halfway around the world, you should do it.

of the most cruel class struggle" in higher education over "the question who will be master." Reflecting the confidence of the cells, the conference resolution boasted that current events proved the communist student body was the only base on which the state could rely in restructuring the higher school. The student cells demanded the right to help determine all party policies affecting "school construction."60 With

All right," said Spiff. "Now this is what I say, anyone who thinks they've got a better plan can say so afterwards.

Sometimes it's better not to ask-or to listen-when tell you something can't be done. I didn't ask for permission or approval. I just went ahead and did it.

For certain people, you gotta remind them that you have a way better record collection than they do. And this tape I'm giving you now will show and prove it. (Not that it's a competition…but it always is.)

A business that looks orderly says to your customer that your people know what they're doing.

Managers at lower levels lack the perspective and the confidence to maintain a strategy. There will be constant pressures to compromise, relax trade-offs, and emulate rivals. One of the leader's jobs is to teach others in the organization about strategy—and to say no. Strategy

Faith requires knowledge, for we cannot believe in what we do not know. But it also requires commitment: we must place our entire weight on what we claim to know.

There's nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.

A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.

As discussed earlier, when it comes to music, most of us tend to have confidence in our taste even though we may totally lack knowledge regarding historical development or compositional theory. I frequently hear, "I don't know anything about art" but hardly ever, "I don't know anything about music".

Of this his head was convinced, however doubtful his bowels.

94 per cent of us think we do above-average work.

Madame Maxime

I don't know what I did to deserve someone as smart and beautiful as you." "You were you. And maybe that was enough.

I love actors, both my parents were actors, and the work with actors is the most enjoyable part of making a film. It's important that they feel protected and are confident they won't be betrayed. When you create that atmosphere of trust, it's in the bag - the actors will do everything to satisfy you.

Faith comes from having confidence in the universal force that guides us and having confidence in ourselves that we are more then capable.

Ralph Waldo Emerson observed that there are always men who like to feel a natural superiority which is not dependent on accomplish­ment and does not need to be proved.

You can change your life by changing the way you think about yourself and your potential.

What other people think about me is not my business.

Frankly, my height or lack thereof never bothered me much. Although there is no doubt that it has contributed to a certain mental toughness. I've made the most of the head start one gains from being underestimated.

was an antidote to the self-consciousness that consumed me as an eccentric teenager in search of an identity.