Quotes About Confidence

Only the madman is absolutely sure.

Don't be afraid to be wrong; be more afraid, not to do the right thing.

Are students so intimidated by expertise that they've lost confidence in their own powers of observation?

you're much more persistent when you're confident in your abilities.

when we are uncertain, we are willing to place an enormous amount of trust in the collective knowledge of the crowd.

Obviously, horse-race bettors are not alone in their willingness to believe in the correctness of a difficult choice, once made.

No doubt this is often the case.

You have any suggestions, make them. I'm in charge but humble. No need to salute when you see me." Fraser said, "Mind if we snicker every once in a while behind your back?" "Hell, no," I said. "Everyone else does.

Too much positive is either scared or stupid or both. Reality is uncertain.

People in oppressive political situations are so afraid to give voice to their convictions that they lose confidence in the very category of truth and in the power of speech to bring clarity and liberation.

Once this person this counselor at school, this LADY, if you know what I mean, told me that if you kept your nose to the grindstone you could be someone in the world, and I thought, Yeah someone with a fucked up nose.

Assertion, even self-assertion, does not invariably bespeak an urge to annihilate the opposition or to wield coercive power.

Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.

It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right.

Few are humble, for it takes a self-esteem few possess.

Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith.

It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken.

[I]t's getting harder and harder to worry needlessly.

I refuse to be burdened by vague worries. If something wants to worry me, it will have to make itself clear.

There is no actual law that says that a person of inner beauty cannot also maintain an appearance.

To accept on faith is the basic requirement for getting on with life.

Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.

Lend, by your imperfections, self-esteem to others, and you will be invited everywhere.

Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.