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Quotes About Confidence

How far must you go to gain respect? Um... Well, it's kind of simple: just remain your own. Or you'll be crazy sad and alone.
~ Q-Tip
It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty.
~ Keri Russell
Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.
~ Elbert Hubbard
I know people who believe in ghosts but don't believe in themselves. It's kind of sad. Okay you don't think you'll ever make it as a musician, but last night you saw a translucent caveman.
~ Mitch Hedberg
It makes me sad to hear girls constantly putting themselves down. We have these unbelievably high expectations of ourselves, when actually we're human beings and our bodies have a function.
~ Emma Watson
Wisdom of the Ages: "The Pope and Congress" It looks as if confidence in the American voter to exorcise the demons in the Capitol has completely fallen through.
~ Matthew Heines
I just didn't want to be a loser anymore...-Mitsuko Souma
~ Koushun Takami, Battle Royale
The more you know, the less sure you are.
~ Voltaire
I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.
~ Giordano Bruno
Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.
~ Jonas Salk
It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
~ Isaac Asimov
I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer.
~ Cindy Crawford
And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.
~ Joseph Glanvill
The dinosaurs invented Jesus to test our confidence in science.
~ Karl Hess
To succeed in science, one must doubt; to succeed in life, one must be sure.
~ Leo Errera
I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can't prove.
~ Randolph M. Nesse
Happiness hates the timid. So does science.
~ Eugene O'Neill
We're not freaks, Tally. We're normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we're not hyped-up Barbie dolls.
~ Scott Westerfeld, Uglies
I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.
~ David Sarnoff
I believe that only scientists can understand the universe. It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
~ Isaac Asimov
I don't mind not knowing. It doesn't scare me.
~ Richard Feynman
You're insane.""It'll work.""Which does not alter the fact that you are insane.
~ G.S. Jennsen, Vertigo
In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.
~ Thomas Gold
The most beautiful curve on a woman's body is her smile.
~ Bob Marley