Quotes About Confidence

What was leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason?

Sometimes it is foolish to articulate an ambition too early--exposing it prematurely to the laughter and skepticism of the world can destroy it before it is even properly born. But sometimes the opposite occurs, and the very act of mentioning a thing makes it suddenly seem possible, even plausible.

How fortunate the man who never knew doubt.

I fear there is in all men who achieve their life's ambition only a narrow line between dignity and vanity, confidence and delusion, glory and self-destruction

there is in all men who achieve their life's ambition only a narrow line between dignity and vanity, confidence and delusion, glory and self-destruction.

take it one step at a time; approach the matter dispassionately; avoid a rush to judgement; confide in nobody until there is hard evidence.

If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know.

I am Rand al'Thor!" he called, so his voice rang through the chamber. "I am the Dragon Reborn!

Lan said the time to sound most sure was when you were least certain.

A man without trust might as well be dead.

Until you can, remember this. We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.

It was hard to explain to students that there was a rule that trumped all of the others: Always trust your instincts.

Confidence was one key to victory. The other side believing you were confident was sometimes almost as good as actually being confident.

Callandor shone in his fist until it seemed he carried the sun. Dimly within him, fluttering like a candle flame in a storm, was the surety that holding Callandor, he could do anything. Anything.

Do not cut off your ears because you do not like your earrings.

she folded her arms beneath that impressive bosom.

If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know

She held herself with a grace and air of command that made him feel awkward and stumble-footed. She was barely tall enough to come up to his chest, but her presence was such that her height seemed the proper one, and he felt ungainly in his tallness.

We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect

I may lead you wrong now and then, but in the end, you can be sure that I'm always a safe bet.

A queen could not show herself afraid, even when she was.

Being in control wasn't so much about the power you had, but the power you implied that you had.

A woman's flaming rights are whatever she flaming says they are." Uno laughed. "That's what women in Shienar say, anyway.

Maighdin knows she has to be careful," she said in a firm voice. "She will be here soon, Alliandre." "And if she is caught?" "She won't be!" Faile said sharply. If she was. . . . No. She had to think of victory, not defeat. Faint hearts never won. (Crossroads of Twilight, The Wheel of Time series, book 10 by Robert Jordan)