Confidence Quotes - Page 21

• Any action is better than no action at all.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Action, Face Your Fears

  Norman Vincent Peale (1996). “Power of the Plus Factor”, Ballantine Books

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• In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Strength, Strong, Power

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.147

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• Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools - but they must be kept to a minimum.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Business, Self, Giving

  "The Fast Company Interview: Jeff Immelt". Interview with John R. Byrne, www.fastcompany.com. July 1, 2005.

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• Imagine how free we would feel and what we could accomplish if we could live without fear.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Courage, Fear, Imagine

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• When you really believe in God, it gives you a courage, a confidence that enables you to meet the things coming.

  Della Reese

  Believe, Giving, Belive

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• I don't take drugs. I never did. All the feelings that drugs are supposed to produce in you - confidence or energy - I can produce naturally.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Drug, Feelings, Energy

  "Madonna Rocks the Land". Time, May 27, 1985.

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• No one reaches a high position without daring.

  Publilius Syrus

  Courage, Fear, Daring

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p.160, Maxims, 1922.

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• What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.

  John Bunyan

  Lying, Greatness, Keys

  John Bunyan, Thomas Scott (1825). “The Pilgrim's Progress: From this World to that which is to Come. Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream. In Two Parts”, p.161

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• You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.

  Brené Brown

  Hustle, Stories, Standing Out

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• No one who deserves confidence ever solicits it.

  John Churton Collins

  Deserve

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• Nothing can be achieved without hope or confidence. Be sure you always have both!

  Denise Austin

  Without Hope

  Twitter post from Jul 21, 2014

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• No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Leadership, Money

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• Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Success, Courage

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• Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold on to the truth within yourself as to the only truth.

  Gautama Buddha

  Yoga, Lamps, Yoga And Life

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• Control your own destiny or someone else will.

  Jack Welch

  Motivational, Life Changing, Destiny

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes".

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• A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.

  Mae West

  Relationship, Sarcastic, Witty

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• But you can't just sit around the fireplace and sip Cokes and eat pretzels and get an attitude of confidence. You have to put in hard work.

  Lee Haney

  Attitude, Hard Work, Coke

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• Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Birthday, Happiness, Growing Up

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• You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Life, Powerful, Mistake

  Richard P. Feynman (2010). “"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character: Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.172, W. W. Norton & Company

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

  David Neeleman

  Believe, Airports, Government

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• I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.

  Jonathan Swift

  Inspirational, Tree, Dies

  In Sir Walter Scott 'Life of Swift'

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• Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.

  Lee Iacocca

  Thinking, Creative, Unconventional

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• As to the question of elected or not elected, each member of the European Commission has been appointed jointly by the governments of the 15 member states, and undergone individual scrutiny and a vote of confidence from the European Parliament.

  Mario Monti

  Government, Vote, Individual

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• People are timid and apologetic; they are no longer upright; they dare not say "I think," "I am," but quote some saint or sage. They are ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, People, Rose

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (185?). “Nature: An Essay; and Orations”

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• We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs subordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.

  Eric Hoffer

  Change, Self Esteem, Faces

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