We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
~By Anna Freud ~
With such thoughts in your mind, now that you have resolved to love Him and please Him with all your strength, your only fear should be to fear God too much and to place too little confidence in Him.
~By Alphonsus Liguori ~
Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements.
~By Chauncey Wright ~
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
~By Helen Keller ~
At some point he seemed to lose all confidence trying to break down the Berlin Wall. He was still fighting as only Kasparov can, but I could see it in his eyes that he knew he wasn't going to win one of these games.
~By Vladimir Kramnik ~
A great figure or physique is nice, but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy.
~By Vivica Fox ~
Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter.
~By Harry Houdini ~
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
~By Arthur Ashe ~
Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world.
~By Ann Macbeth ~
I love Tina Turner. I'm one of Tina Turner's biggest fans. Tina Turner was a big influence on me to become a singer. A role model and in a way she gave me back my confidence in choosing my material.
~By Bonnie Tyler ~
The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.
~By Ella Maillart ~
But we can turn challenges into opportunities if we look outwards to the realities of the global economy and modernise our internal institutions in ways that will equip Europe to meet that challenge and create confidence amongst the public.
~By John Hutton ~
I had gained so much confidence through my college achievements that I wanted to tackle the world.
~By Donna Rice ~
Everybody wants to be somebody. The thing you have to do is give them confidence they can. You have to give a kid a dream.
~By George Foreman ~
Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.
~By Johnny Unitas ~
I thought we were aggressive across the board defensively, and you could just see it grow. As the game went along, you could see the confidence grow. It showed in the fourth quarter.
~By Bill Laimbeer ~
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
~By Joe Paterno ~
At this time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Germany and Russia to fight each other to death.
~By Klaus Fuchs ~
The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.
~By Timothy Radcliffe ~
Confidence, knowing for certain that the person making the call has your safety foremost in their mind. And knowing that the job you are about to take on is the right thing to do, that it makes sense.
~By Paul Gleason ~
Not only is there no need of an intermediary through whom He would want you to speak to Him, but He finds His delight in having you treat with Him personally and in all confidence.
~By Alphonsus Liguori ~
The monitors indicated that it was a credible election, I think, in an overall sense, it apparently is a free and fair election, so it's a real milestone and one of the things we can take some little confidence in.
~By Warren Christopher ~
Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.
~By Richard Kline ~
I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.
~By Barbara Jordan ~
I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed.
~By Tim Robbins ~
With new jobs, new ideas, and growing confidence that our brightest days lie ahead, Wisconsin is on the move.
~By Jim Doyle ~
It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.
~By Arthur Eddington ~
I am disposed to be thus particular from the interest you take in our welfare and from the entire confidence I have in your knowing, that you will be sympathetic with us in our misfortunes.
~By John Hawley ~
Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
Well, I am a Republican, and I would run as a Republican. And I have a lot of confidence in the Republican Party. I don't have a lot of confidence in the president.
~By Donald Trump ~
It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair.
~By Zalmay Khalilzad ~
You start to think bigger when you see how quickly a TV show can catch on in a whole country. That confidence, and thinking big, opened a lot of doors.
~By Andrew Shue ~
Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.
~By Henry Norris Russell ~
Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.
~By Joshua Lederberg ~
Even if I were knocked down by one gunshot it wouldn't affect our democracy and I wasn't knocked down and I have great confidence in our democracy and in Taiwan and in the people of Taiwan.
~By Chen Shui-bian ~
For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.
~By Charley Pride ~
And so we try to address those concerns in every way possible, recognizing, again, in the final analysis, everybody on that flight wants to be assured with the highest level of confidence that everybody else on that flight has been properly screened, and including me and you and everybody.
~By John Pistole ~
Golf is a matter of confidence. If you think you cannot do it, there is no chance you will.
~By Henry Cotton ~
With silly stuff, it's seventy-five percent confidence. I always tell people that it's because I'm nervous about getting that next laugh and I need to hear it. I always want to condense a joke.
~By Tim Vine ~
The bottom line in my view is that America's mothers and fathers deserve to have confidence in law enforcement's ability to ensure that their children are being raised in the safest possible environment.
~By Bob Ney ~
Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.
~By Joe Paterno ~
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
~By Tennessee Williams ~
I was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence.
~By Sarah McLachlan ~
The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.
~By Georg Simmel ~
There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace.
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.
~By Charles Rosen ~
I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing his level best to win, always received an ovation from the gathering.
~By Major Taylor ~
You get confidence with wins.
~By Dave Rose ~
Things said to a reporter in confidence should be kept in confidence.
~By Dorothy Kilgallen ~
Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.
~By Armstrong Williams ~
I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
~By Ed O'Brien ~
I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting.
~By Amanda Seyfried ~
There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.
~By Kiefer Sutherland ~
Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.
~By David Storey ~
I'm sure that they will continue to look for ways to try and undermine my support, but I have every confidence that in doing this job for South Dakota, I will continue to build on my support and be able to succeed once again in November.
~By Stephanie Herseth ~
Thanks to President Bush and Republican principles, businesses now have more confidence to hire workers.
~By John Doolittle ~
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
Confidence is such a fragile and precious thing.
~By David Duval ~
Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out.
~By Roger Daltrey ~
If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
~By Ilie Nastase ~
The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.
~By Angela Carter ~
The only way to get back the confidence is to play and win matches. You can practise as much as you like, but you need confidence that comes from playing and winning matches.
~By Greg Rusedski ~
In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.
~By Gerald R. Ford ~
At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.
~By Arsene Wenger ~
I presumed the president was being truthful until a series of events undercut that confidence.
~By Bob Graham ~
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
~By Marcus Garvey ~
Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
~By Bruce Barton ~
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
~By Arthur Helps ~
I was feeling a lot of confidence, so I wanted to take advantage of that and keep playing.
~By Gabriela Sabatini ~
It used to be that a son could look at the father, and pretty much know what life was gonna be like as an adult. There was confidence in that, and comfort in that, and frustration also.
~By Clancy Brown ~
Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.
~By Roger Staubach ~
Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.
~By Wynton Marsalis ~
Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
~By George McGovern ~
It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will?
~By Johnny Unitas ~
What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.
~By Terry Bradshaw ~
Confidence is everything in this business.
~By Reese Witherspoon ~
Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.
~By Virgil ~
The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.
~By Linda Vester ~
I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.
~By Randy Johnson ~
We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.
~By Epicurus ~
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
I really think that's the key, part of the spiritual renewal that America needs to have, the notion that we really can have confidence in a better tomorrow.
~By Carol Moseley Braun ~
The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.
~By Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ~
The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.
~By Alain Prost ~
We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.
~By Lester B. Pearson ~
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
~By Mark Twain ~
We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger.
~By Charlie Dent ~
Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.
~By Arnold Palmer ~
If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love.
~By Alphonsus Liguori ~
Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself.
~By Alberta Hunter ~
Tim Robbins had real confidence in college. He literally stole actors from the theater department at UCLA to be in his plays. The department heads got so mad at him.
~By Daphne Zuniga ~
By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate.
~By Joseph Epstein ~
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