Confidence Quotes - Page 12

• May you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  People, Solitude, May

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• 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.

  George Foreman

  Sports, Dream, Kids

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

  Lillian Hellman

  Made, Irrational, Can Do

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• Don't belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself.

  Corita Kent

  Self Esteem, Love Yourself, Self Respect

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• I just pretended I was someone else until that someone else became me.

  Steven Tyler

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• You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

  Zig Ziglar

  Running, Design, Famous Motivational

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 16, 2014

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• He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

  B. C. Forbes

  Faith, Courage, Inward

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• Men give their confidence at once, but never their money.

  Tristan Bernard

  Men, Giving

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• My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.

  Scott Berkun

  Goal, Perfection, Wells

  Scott Berkun (2009). “Confessions of a Public Speaker”, p.18, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• People exaggerate their confidence in their plans - something we call the planning fallacy... The existence of the plan tends to induce overconfidence.

  Daniel Kahneman

  People, Planning, Existence

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• For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.

  Charley Pride

  Self, Doubt, Defining Moments

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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• If you are prepared, then you are able to feel confident.

  Robert Ringer

  Preparation, Able, Proactive

  robert j. ringer (1974). “winning through intimidation”

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• No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

  William Ellery Channing

  Depressing, Attitude, Adversity

  "Self-Culture" (address), Boston, Mass., Sept. 1838

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• I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.

  Wole Soyinka

  Thinking, Self, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Wole Soyinka from Mar 19, 2017

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• Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

  Virginia Woolf

  Love Yourself, Eye, Cages

  Virginia Woolf (2010). “Monday or Tuesday: And Other Short Stories”, p.41, The Floating Press

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• Self-confidence comes naturally when your inner life and your outer life are in harmony.

  Brian Tracy

  Self, Harmony, Inner Life

  Twitter post from May 31, 2014

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• I've learned what works and what doesn't, which gives me confidence.

  Brian Johnson

  Giving, I've Learned, Give Me

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• As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an epitaph Or any other thing that’s false Before you trust in critics.

  Lord Byron

  Believe, June, Ice

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.589, Delphi Classics

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• Sincerity is the surest road to confidence.

  David Lloyd George

  Sincerity

  Speech at Aberystwyth, August 3, 1928.

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• As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.

  Bruce Lee

  Faith, Spiritual, Determination

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• It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Motivational, Adventure, Self Worth

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• In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.

  John of the Cross

  Enlightenment, Instruction, Draws

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• The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.

  Ellen Goodman

  Encouraging, Hate, Real

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• A timid question will always receive a confident answer.

  Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling

  Political, Answers

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