Quotes About Confidence

Another crucial ingredient of motivation is consistency. As a leader you can't run from one side of the ship to the other. People need to feel that you have unshakeable confidence in a particular approach. If you can't show this, you'll lose the team very quickly.

I always watch to see whether people can maintain eye contact because it is a good measure of their confidence.

A leader who arrives in a new setting, or inherits a big role, needs to curb the impulse to display his manhood.

Whenever someone new assumes a role, there will always be doubts about his capabilities until he has proved himself.

I am a princess. I do not follow fashions--I make them.

When I'm with you, I don't feel ugly at all.

beautiful; I was smart, but that was never enough, never what I wanted. I was nice, and no one cared. I was a lot of things, but beautiful? Not me.

Though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the evilest motherfucker in the valley

Indeed, good leaders were often good actors, able to convince their men if not themselves that they would somehow prevail.

Skalleberg also has a revolutionary formula for building a company culture in the postmodern era: "Confidence is the start of it, joy is a part of it, love is the heart of it.

The supreme quality of great men is the power of resting. Anxiety, restlessness, fretting are marks of weakness.

Confident in the power of truth, He chose the base things of the world in preference to things held in esteem, assured that they would conquer at the last.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

Real firmness is good for every thing— Strut is good for nothing.

I affect not reserves which I do not feel. I will not amuse you with an appearance of deliberation when I have decided. I frankly acknowledge to you my convictions, and I will freely lay before you the reasons on which they are founded. The consciousness of good intentions disdains ambiguity.

Considerate men, of every description, ought to prize whatever will tend to beget or fortify that temper in the courts: as no man can be sure that he may not be to-morrow the victim of a spirit of injustice, by which he may be a gainer to-day. And every man must now feel, that the inevitable tendency of such a spirit is to sap the foundations of public and private confidence, and to introduce in its stead universal distrust and distress.

They are not at liberty to vest in the executive department permanent funds for the support of an army, if they were even incautious enough to be willing to repose in it so improper a confidence

What an excellent horse do they lose, for want of address and boldness to manage him! ... I could manage this horse better than others do.

Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

He that has his trust set upon God does not need to dread anything except the weakening or the paralyzing of that trust.

One man, with God to back him, is always in the majority.

The opening trick to becoming is to convince yourself that you already are

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

The most positive men are the most credulous.