Quotes About Confidence

Anyone who expects to create, be it as a scientist or artist, scholar or writer, needs self-confidence, even bravado. How else can one dare to imagine understanding what no one else has understood, discovering what no one else has discovered? Where does this confidence come from? Fortunately, every young person is blessed with some of it. It is part of human character.

Never make a calculation until you know the answer.

A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.

A leader who delivers the truth and does so calmly and confidently gives people a reason to believe that the right people are in charge and will do what they can to improve the situation.

Can I ask you something personal?" Six inches but I tell everyone eight.

He who challenges me, praises me!

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

Whatever you think you are, that's what you are

Tarby was a popular boy, and he was used to being right about everything.

Over? Did you say over? Nothing is over until WE decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

To set high goals, to have almost unattainable aspirations, to imbue people with the belief that they can be achieved—these are as important as the balance sheet, perhaps more

A considerable percentage of these respondents [to a question about their ability to mix cocktails] are in the "somewhat" category on ability to mix cocktails.… Evidently, they do not have much confidence in their cocktail-mixing

He that is down needs fear no fall.

He that is down need fear no fall.

He that is down, needs fear no fall,He that is low, no pride.

If you think you can do it, you can.

I feel confident that the Lord will not leave us alone in making this major decision, and we can expect to be guided, even if we don't realize it at the time.

Being told that he was immune to flattery was the nicest thing he had heard someone say about him in a long time.

Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.

We ought to contemplate providence not as curious and fickle persons are wont to do but as a ground of confidence and excitement to prayer. When he informs us that the hairs of our head are all numbered it is not to encourage trivial speculations but to instruct us to depend on the fatherly care of God which is exercised over these frail bodies.

Children, who are dealt with more generously and more liberally by their fathers, do not hesitate to show them unfinished projects that they have only begun, or even spoiled a little. Even if they have not succeeded in doing quite what they wanted, they are confident that their obedience and readiness of mind will be accepted. Such children we ought to be, trusting confidently that our most lenient Father will approve of them, however small, rough, or imperfect they may be.

Indeed, the holiest among us know they stand by God's grace and not by their own virtues. Yet they would nevertheless become too confident in their own courage and constancy if they weren't led to a more intimate knowledge of themselves by the testing of the cross.

The knowledge of faith consists in assurance rather than in comprehension. . . . We add the words "sure and firm" in order to express a more solid constancy of persuasion.

But however they may sport with its uncertainty, had they to seal their own doctrine with their blood, and at the expense of life, it would be seen what value they put upon it. Very different is our confidence - a confidence which is not appalled by the terrors of death, and therefore not even by the judgment - seat of God.