Quotes About Confidence

I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it.

Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.

Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.

Programming is an act of creation. When we write code we are creating something out of nothing. We are boldly imposing order upon chaos. We are confidently commanding, in precise detail, the behaviors of a machine that could otherwise do incalculable damage. And so, programming is an act of supreme arrogance. Professionals

If you are not holding back some energy in reserve, if you don't have a new plan, if you aren't going to change your behavior, and if you are reasonably confident in your original estimate, then promising to try is fundamentally dishonest. You are lying. And you are probably doing it to save face and to avoid a confrontation.

Building trust means thinking about trust in a positive way.

Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.

All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.

Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.

Overall, one gets the impression of a commander who was unsure of himself and consequently inconsistent. In other words, just about the worst kind of commander imaginable, although one blessed with uncanny luck.

Lenin had managed to communicate to people who yearned for socialist revolution without seriously expecting it a feeling that such a revolution was a real possibility, and in doing this he was ministering to their deep-seated need for confidence in their own commitment.

When presented with this evidence, believers in the "hot hand" are likely to reject it because they "know better" from experience.

Anyone will be glad to admit that he knows nothing about beagling, or the Chinese stock market, or ballistics, but there is not a man or woman alive who does not claim to know how to cure hiccoughs.

Self absorption is anti-seductive; it is a sign of insecurity.

Once it is solid, do not let yourself get angry or defensive at the slanderous comments of your enemies—that reveals insecurity, not confidence in your reputation.

Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers. Feeling motivated and energized, we can overcome almost anything. Feeling bored and restless, our minds shut off and we become increasingly passive. In

talking endlessly about [ourselves] is eminently anti-seductive, revealing not self-sufficiency but insecurity.

Thus for my own part I have more than once been deceived by the person I loved most and of whose love, above everyone else's, I have been most confident. So that I believe that it may be right to love and serve one person above all others, according to merit and worth, but never to trust so much in this tempting trap of friendship as to have cause to repent of it later on. BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE, 1478-1529

ignore your weaknesses and resist the temptation to be more like others.

If you want to make people with low self esteem feel better about themselves, praise has a superficial effect. Instead prod them into accomplishing something tangible, giving them a real experience. That will translate into a much deeper feeling of confidence.

We don't say what we feel even when it would be appropriate, and we fail to set boundaries to people's harmful behavior. We find it hard to ask for a raise or a promotion or the respect due to us. Losing our bold spirit, a positive form of aggression, is losing a deep part of our self, and it is inevitably painful.

Even while you know you are practicing a kind of deception on yourself, act like a king. You are likely to be treated as one.

Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish.