Confidence Is Quotes

Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.
- Woody Allen

Resolved... that it would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights: that confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence;
- Thomas Jefferson

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe

Confidence is inspiring. Yet so often misplaced. (Robert Thornhill)
- David Baldacci

Confidence is one thing, disrespect is quite another. (Justice Elizabeth Knight)
- David Baldacci

The most important point to remember in developing self-confidence is to take responsibility for who we are. This empowers us. We can change anything, do anything, and be anything when we assume full responsibility for ourselves.
- Rachael Bermingham

The Australian economy is resilient, but business and consumer confidence is fragile.
- Julie Bishop

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.
- Zig Ziglar

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
- Giacomo Casanova

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.
- Catherine Ii

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Confidence is seen, not heard.
- Kelly Clarkson

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.
- Dwight D Eisenhower

And women don't usually like to be looked at. They feel vulnerable, exposed. They are self-conscious about their perceived flaws. What they don't understand is that men don't see them the same way they see themselves. We see curves and we love those curves. Confidence is sexy as hell, Alli Cat. It's the sexiest possible think that you can wear.
- Courtney Cole

Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.
- Eoin Colfer

The biggest moments of insecurity come when all self-confidence is lost and you feel like people are watching and judging. It should be the opposite. You should feel like the people who are watching care about you. This is something we can try to give each other the feeling that eyes signal support, not disdain.
- Miley Cyrus

I have no confidence issues with the impact or the quality of the music. No one in hip-hop, before this point and to this point, with all due respect, has done this.
- Mos Def

The confidence is there, the game is there, but physically you can't fight nature sometimes. You can't do much about it.
- Novak Djokovic

Confidence is such a fragile and precious thing.
- David Duval

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
- Vince Lombardi Jr

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.
- Chris Evert

Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.
- Tina Fey

At this point in my life, beaming confidence is largely a matter of mind over bladder control
- Josh Stern

Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
- Vanessa Hudgens

The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee.
- Carl Sagan

Confidence is a magnet to success.
- E Yen A Gardner

In the long term, improving investor confidence is a marathon, not a sprint.
- John Gavin

Confidence is a fine trait. Over-confidence isn't.
- Laurell K Hamilton

Drunkeness, she told us in a rare moment of confidence, is a sin against the fruit, the tree, the wine itself. Wine, distilled and nurtured from bud into fruit; it deserves reverance. Joy. Gentleness.
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- Joanne Harris

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre
- Robert Hughes

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
- Robert Hughes

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.
- Criss Jami

My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.
- Alfred Jodl

Having interests translates as confidence to do and be things on your own without expecting a man to do and be for you. And confidence is attractive. Not to mention independence.
- Belle De Jour

I believe confidence is all about being positive concerning what you can do -- and not worrying over what you can't do. A confident person is open to learning, because she knows that her confidence allows her to walk through life's doorways, eager to discover what waits on the other side. She knows that every new unknown is a chance to learn more about herself and unleash her abilities.
- Joyce Meyer

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
- Vince Lombardi

Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.
- Richard Kline

See what I mean? Your confidence is so strong it's obnoxious.
- Stacy Kramer

Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
- Hedy Lamarr

I've been training super hard at the Lopez Taekwondo Academy in Houston, which belongs to my brother Jean. For me, I think confidence is the biggest thing; it's all mental. I train with the best of the best, including my brother Steven, a five-time world champion who won Olympic gold medals.
- Diana Lopez

Confidence is everything in this business.
- Reese Witherspoon

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
- James Madison

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu

Confidence is one of the sexiest things in guys and girls.
- Danica Mckellar

One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets.
- Ralph Merkle

Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say and it's true, I do have a certain fondness for women that have dark hair.
- Wentworth Miller

Confidence is a very fragile thing.
- Joe Montana

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus

The only way to get back the confidence is to play and win matches. You can practise as much as you like, but you need confidence that comes from playing and winning matches.
- Greg Rusedski

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
- Joe Paterno

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.
- William Pitt

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
- Channing Pollock

I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
- Francois Rabelais

courage and confidence are practical necessities, that courage is the practical form of being true to existence, of being true to truth, and confidence is the practical form of being true to one's own consciousness.
- Ayn Rand

Self-confidence is not the same thing as ego. This is not to say that the two don't (frequently) dance hand in hand down the street, pushing over old ladies in crosswalks and kicking baby kittens. But they are definitely not the same entity. Ego is thinking you have all the answers. Self-confidence is knowing you don't have the answers, but being pretty sure that you will be able to find them.
- Maggie Stiefvater

The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.
- Charles Rosen

To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
- Abraham Verghese

Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I would not put me back into a shuttle - and no other astronaut. The confidence is shaken.
- Ulrich Walter

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
- Jack Welch

Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.
- Jerry West