quotations about confidence
Exuding confidence is a bit like being wealthy. Confidence, like money, only becomes a problem when it disappears.
KATE BURTON & BRINLEY N. PLATTS
Building Self-Confidence for Dummies
Once men's confidence is thoroughly aroused it is likely to run riot.
GEORGE E. PUTNAM
The American Economic Review, Mar. 1920
Ours is the one ever-present voice in our lives. Therefore, it is crucial that our self-talk instill confidence within us and is supportive, not submerging, and that our attitudes toward ourselves help keep our spirits afloat through acceptance and trust. We are our own most important and influential buoy.
SUE PATTON THOELE
The Woman's Book of Confidence
We need confidence in order to set goals and achieve success, however large or small those goals are and whatever success means to us. This is a competitive world and it is confident people who usually get to win.
JAN FERGUSON
Perfect Confidence
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Walden
Self-confidence is a cure-all that can relieve worry and eliminate fear, the two things that often stand in our way while striving for success. Unfortunately, to gain confidence, you must attain a state of denial by suspending reality. You must make yourself believe what you suspect is not so. To gain this level of self-confidence, you need to be willing to attempt that which common sense tells you not to do.
AARON R. FODIMAN
Tampa Bay Magazine, May/June 2009
Total self-confidence is built through positive expectations. You can build positive expectations by knowing that you have the power within to overcome any obstacle that lies ahead. So many people have a magnetic attraction to the past. They save momentos, clippings, old letters, and trivia. There is nothing wrong with this, but if you want to succeed, your mind must focus on where you are going, not on where you have been. Instead of saving momentos, clippings, old letters, and trivia from the past, it would be more productive to make a scrapbook with pictures of where you want to go and what you want to be in the future.
ROBERT ANTHONY
The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence
To these success gives heart: they can because they think they can.
VIRGIL
Aenead
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, Run to Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership
No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.
PARIS HILTON
attributed, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader
Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom; youth is the season of credulity.
WILLIAM PITT
speech, Jan. 14, 1766
Confidence is like an aura; it radiates to your outer being and makes other people gravitate toward that light.
NICOLE SCONIERS
California Schemin'
Lack of confidence is what makes you want to change somebody else's mind. When you're OK, you don't need to convince anyone else in order to empower yourself.
JADA PINKETT SMITH
Good Housekeeping, Sept. 2009
The best way for you to gain confidence is to prepare so well on something ... that there can be little chance to fail.
FRANK CUMMINS LOCKWOOD
Public Speaking Today
Confidence sounds like rock and roll, loud, strong and played without apology.
TIMOTHY URSINY
The Confidence Plan
I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting.... I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence.
ARTHUR GOLDEN
Memoirs of a Geisha
Confidence is a good name for what is intended by the term directness. It should not be confused, however, with self-confidence which may be a form of self-consciousness -- or of "cheek." Confidence is not a name for what one thinks or feels about his attitude it is not reflex. It denotes the straightforwardness with which one goes at what he has to do. It denotes not conscious trust in the efficacy of one's powers but unconscious faith in the possibilities of the situation. It signifies rising to the needs of the situation.
JOHN DEWEY
Democracy and Education
Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you.
CYNTHIA KERSEY
Unstoppable Women
Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
CHANNING POLLOCK
attributed, The Book of Positive Quotations
Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.
EOIN COLFER
Artemis Fowl