Confidence

26 quotes.

• Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.

  Henry Ford

• As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

  William Hazlitt

• The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

  Bertrand Russell

• Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.

  Joan L. Curcio

• Be brave. Even if you're not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference.

  Anonymous

• For they conquer who believe they can.

  John Dryden

• Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.

  Storey

• He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.

  Auerbach

• I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends call it.

  Edgar Allan Poe

• I never make mistakes. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.

  Anonymous

• If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

  Abraham Lincoln

• Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

  Dale Carnegie

• Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

  Lao-Tse

• Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.

  Manly's Maxim

• My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

• Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

  William Penn

• Self-confidence gives you the freedom to make mistakes and cope with failure without feeling that your world has come to an end or that you are a worthless person.

  Haydn Sargent

• The confidence of ignorance will always overcome indecision of knowledge.

  Anonymous

• The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

  Marie Edgeworth

• They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized.

  Eric Hoffer

• True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man.

  Burt

• We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1945

• When you're prepared, you're more confident. When you have a strategy, you're more comfortable.

  Fred Couples

• With confidence, you can reach truly amazing heights; without confidence, even the simplest accomplishments are beyond your grasp.

  Jim Loehr

• You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face; You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

• You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

  Rosalynn Carter

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