Confidence Quotes

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence.

Not hippie - my parents were not hippies - but they were very supportive and encouraging, and that does a lot for someone, and it gives them a lot of confidence.

I was in Beijing a month ago working on the smoke project in collaboration with an architect there, and I was asked very directly whether it was safe to breathe in the smoke. They did not have confidence in the museum not to use harmful smoke, and they certainly didn't have confidence that the city would protect them from harmful smoke.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

I think that you do get a little extra jolt of confidence when you win an Emmy.

The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.

Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If there's stress or tension, they won't go out on a limb because they won't want to embarrass themselves if they don't feel completely comfortable.

I am now the Wimbledon champion, and I think that gives me even more confidence coming to the Olympics. And maybe in some ways, it maybe takes some pressure off the Olympics, because I already did win at Wimbledon this year.

Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.

Celebrate your family's bleakest moments and how your relatives overcame them. In doing so, you will encounter darkness, but you'll give your children the confidence that they, too, shall overcome.

If you tell your own story to your children - that includes your positive moments and your negative moments, and how you overcame them - you give your children the skills and the confidence they need to feel like they can overcome some hardship that they've felt.

I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

I had so much fun developing and launching my first fragrance with Avon, so for my second fragrance, I really wanted to add a little more edge. Outspoken Intense is a provocative blend of sexy confidence and daring femininity that captures the thrill and excitement of being centre stage.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

With confidence, you have won before you have started.

I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.

In the long term, improving investor confidence is a marathon, not a sprint.

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.

Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,' - they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on.

I obviously want to give a healthy body image to my own daughter. I think having good examples, eating properly, that's all one can do - and just be really loving around her. I've tried to give her confidence in who she is. I think she's all right in the confidence department.

I like the idea of an open, international London that thrives on attracting hard-working, talented people but has the confidence to tell them they must play by the same rules as everyone else.

When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence.

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Listen, if you don't talk big game, you never get anywhere. If you don't think big, you don't get big. Some people call it egotistical, some people call it high hopes, some people call it confidence. It's all in how you want to dissect it.

Before the season begins, I had even damaged some frames, but Ken did not hold it against me and kept all his confidence. He was the one who incontestably changed my life, because without his help, I do not know what I will have become.

Give me your trust and confidence, knowing that what I seek is for the good of Fiji, for the good of us all.

American actors are all muscular, tanned, white teeth and they have this indestructible confidence. We British are all... Dare I say it? Pessimistic.

Winning Wimbledon was a great feeling and it is still a great feeling. It has given me so much confidence.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.

For so many years, I felt so insecure, so inferior, and I still have those moments, but I have a newfound confidence since I got in shape and changed my diet.

Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

Our ad campaign with Pfizer is educational. Lipitor is the most widely prescribed drug in the country. For every prescription, there is a doctor writing it. It's a huge vote of confidence.

Confidence is one of the sexiest things.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.

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.

If you're too embarrassed and want to hide behind your computer screen, that's what this is for. It's about building confidence and that's what U by Kotex does. Girls owning their bodies and health.

I feel like more than 80% of the world wouldn't get up in front of 40 million people and dance on national television, and if I have the confidence to do that then that's a step ahead in my life for me in terms of personal goals. I will gain a lot of confidence on all aspects right there.

A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.

I'm always astonished by the confidence my readers put in me.

But I do think the survey group - and I think Charlie Duelfer is a great leader. I have the utmost confidence in Charles. I think you will get as full an answer as you can possibly get.

I didn't have that much confidence. Maybe it looks that way. I'm glad it does.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

I think it was always there and it was maybe a matter of bringing it out. It was harder than I thought it would be and I had to try harder. I had to regain my confidence, maybe the most important thing. I have learned a lot to relax. I know what I can do now, and I do it.

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.

On a personal note I want to gain more confidence and give back in any way I can.

Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum.

Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world.

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.

I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK.

I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

I grew up thinking anything was possible simply because of seeing women in power - like, you know, running the country. Which is a thought that continues to give Americans indigestion... Direction is about having a vision, but the practice of being a director is a con game - a confidence game.

Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.

Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

The crowd gives us so much energy and we are able to really feed off of it. Hitting those shots and having the crowd go crazy helps boost our confidence. We love our fans.

If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.

You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence.

I believe the public's confidence would be increased if the federal government took over the functions of airport security screening for all passengers.