Confidence Quotes and Sayings - Page 5



Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
Max L. Forman

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
Nicholas de Chamfort

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
Michel de Montaigne

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.
Anonymous

Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
Alan Alda

Whatever you say, say it with conviction.
Mark Twain

I’d go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn’t know who I was. And things just get really dark.
Angelina Jolie

If I am to speak for ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now.
Woodrow T. Wilson

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Colin Powell

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, ‘It all depends on me.
Andre Gide

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.
Eleanor Roosevelt

When you allow yourself to begin to dream big dreams, creatively abandon the activities that are taking up too much of your time, and focus your inward energies on alleviating your main constraints, you start to feel an incredible sense of power and confidence.
Brian Tracy

Many men are like unto sausages: Whatever you stuff them with, that they will bear in them.
Alexi Konstantinovich Tolstoy

Life marks us all down, so it’s just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.
Mignon McLaughlin

The decision destroyed my confidence, which has always been fragile. I need people to support and back me — and I was mentally broken by being left out by England.
Robin Smith

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
Sophia Loren

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
Truman Capote

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate.
Henry David Thoreau

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.
Sonya Friedman

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.
Mignon McLaughlin

Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you.
Nicholai Velimirovic

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie

Assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
George Santayana

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
Epicurus

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.
Andre Dubus

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying anyway.
Mary Kay Ash

Don’t listen to anyone who tells you that you can’t do this or that. That’s nonsense. Make up your mind, you’ll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.
Douglas Bader

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