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Quotes About Confidence

?üphen varsa, söyle gitsin!
~ Yankees
We had all prepared to make sure we were ready to try this case on our own. And the client— seeing that preparation gave them that confidence.
~ Yar Chaikovsky
Le courage, monsieur Krausmann, le courage tout court, c'est de croire en soi.
~ Yasmina Khadra
Ressaisis-toi, bonhomme. Il n'y a q'un seul dieu sur terre, et c'est toi. Si le monde ne te convient pas, réinventes-en un autre, et ne laisse aucun chagrin te faire descendre de ton nuage. La vie sourit toujours à celui qui sait lui rendre la monnaie de sa pièce.
~ Yasmina Khadra
Isabelle had the patience of those who believe that tomorrow belongs to them.
~ Yasmina Khadra
It's called a confidence game. Why? Because you give me your confidence? No. Because I give you mine.
~ David Mamet
Go about your work with a quiet confidence that cannot be shake...No matter what happens, remember if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you can move mountains.' (Ducky Drake, UCLA Track Coach)
~ David Maraniss
He acknowledges that endorsing push-backs at the National Conference in July was only the latest in a long line of catch-ups with the Coalition's refugee policies. But he is confident Labor won't be forced to go any further: the worst has been reached. But isn't that what Labor always says? "Time will tell but I know that if we want more humanity in our system, I'll do a better job than the other fellow.
~ David Marr
It's wonderful what becomes possible when we start to accept ourselves," he told me. "Others find it easier to accept us, too, when we don't keep engaging in negative thoughts about ourselves.
~ David Michie
Despising yourself, thinking you are no good, saying 'I can't do this.' This is the mind of weakness. You must work to overcome it." "It's not through choice," Sam protested faintly. "Then you must choose to overcome. What happens if you keep giving in to a weak mind? You feed weakness. The result is an even weaker mind in the future. Instead, you must cultivate confidence!
~ David Michie
The Indian Buddhist guru Shantideva had some wise words on this very subject," Lobsang said. He began to quote: "'When crows encounter a dying snake, / They will act as though they were eagles. / Likewise, if my self-confidence is weak, / I shall be injured by the slightest downfall.
~ David Michie
Sometimes we need to be reminded what we're capable of.
~ David Michie
And we can achieve so much more when we are positive. Confident.
~ David Michie
lack of self-confidence was considered, in Buddhism, to be a form of laziness, a weak mind that had to be overcome.
~ David Michie
Despising yourself, thinking you are no good, saying 'I can't do this.' This is the mind of weakness. You must work to overcome it.
~ David Michie
a life lived in fear is no life at all.
~ David Michie
lack of self-confidence was considered, in Buddhism, to be a form of laziness,
~ David Michie
My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics.
~ David Miliband
You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle
~ David Nicholls
In the future, I'll be braver, she told herself. In the future, I will always speak my mind, eloquently, passionately.
~ David Nicholls
if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of Confidence. Either that or a scented candle.
~ David Nicholls
You know what I can't understand? You have all these people telling you all the time how great you are, smart and funny and talented and all that, I mean endlessly, I've been telling you for years. So why don't you believe it?
~ David Nicholls
Who me? God, no, I'm terrible . . . " Then, just as an experiment, I say, "And, besides, I don't think I'm good-looking enough to be an actor." Oh, that's not true! There are lots of actors who aren't good-looking . . .
~ David Nicholls
Finally, she loved someone and felt fairly confident that she was loved in return. If someone asked Emma, as they sometimes did at parties, how she and her husband had met, she told them: 'We grew up together.
~ David Nicholls