Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

All Quotes with the tag - Confidence

" A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out. "

" A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence. "

" Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends. "

Alphonsus Liguori

" Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all. "

Norman Vincent Peale

" Actually - and ironically - people aren't really interested in a new brand form or flavor as much as they are interested in how a brand can change, impact, or improve their lives. They want brands around them that make them feel special and provide some social cache or confidence. "

" Actually, what I did, because I couldn't make sense of it, and I have to have lyrics that make sense, I decided the best way to sing 'I Have Confidence' was to go completely nuts with panic and fear. "

" A decent government with an effective, but not gratuitously violent, police force and a fair court system are essential. This deters and incapacitates psychopaths, bullies and hotheads - and if it earns the confidence of the people, they don't have to become violent in self-defence. "

" Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning. "

Francis Atterbury

" A fit body gives you confidence. And there's nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you'll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident. "

" After watching wrestling for 20 years, I thought I had enough confidence to do it. There were no wrestling schools at the time. "

" 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. "

" A good education gives you confidence to stick up your hand for anything - whether it is the job you want, or the bloke. And the more you stick up your hand, the better your chances are that you will get what you want. "

" A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid of, what it's trying to hide - then write that. "

M. John Harrison

" Alan Whicker may be the last Briton to have worn a silver-buttoned blazer with complete confidence. "

" All anything takes, really, is confidence. "

" All my family were brilliant cooks when I was growing up, but I ended up just cleaning up, so I've always lacked confidence in the kitchen. "

" All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence. "

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

" All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. "

" Along with age comes more confidence, so it kind of works out. "

" A lot has been done to improve safety and soundness and confidence in financial markets and financial institutions, a lot of which was necessary. "

" A lot of men do have a fear of my ultra-femininity. Sometimes people say I look like a drag queen, that I look scary, but I think that's a fear of my confidence. Most women in contemporary culture pare down their femininity, so there's a slight androgyny about them, and I think men have got used to seeing that. "

" A lot of people, when a guy scores a lot of goals, think, 'He's a great player', because a goal is very important, but a great player is a player who can do everything on the field. He can do assists, encourage his colleagues, give them confidence to go forward. It is someone who, when a team does not do well, becomes one of the leaders. "

" A lot of people would say 'sexy' is about the body. But to me, 'sexy' is a woman with confidence. I admire women who have very little fear. "

Allegra Versace

" A lot of the motivation for doing the 'Make 'Em Laugh' on SNL was because I had just finished shooting 'Inception,' where there were zero-gravity scenes and I got into really good shape and was training and did all these stunts. Coming off of that, that instilled me with the confidence to do 'Make 'Em Laugh.' "

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

" Always the eternal optimist, President Reagan instilled confidence and optimism at a time both were in short supply in our country. "

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

" Americans reading the paper, listening to the news every single day, and all you hear is things are getting worse and worse. And that has a psychological effect on consumer confidence. That's what consumer confidence is. "

" Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet. "

" An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature. "

" An attempt by the Mongols to introduce paper money in Persia in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries flopped because no one would accept it. The public had no confidence in the paper money despite the awesomely coercive decrees that always marked Mongol rule. "

Murray Rothbard

Check our other websites: