quotations about confidence
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Walden
Self-confidence is a cure-all that can relieve worry and eliminate fear, the two things that often stand in our way while striving for success. Unfortunately, to gain confidence, you must attain a state of denial by suspending reality. You must make yourself believe what you suspect is not so. To gain this level of self-confidence, you need to be willing to attempt that which common sense tells you not to do.
AARON R. FODIMAN
Tampa Bay Magazine, May/June 2009
Exuding confidence is a bit like being wealthy. Confidence, like money, only becomes a problem when it disappears.
KATE BURTON & BRINLEY N. PLATTS
Building Self-Confidence for Dummies
We need confidence in order to set goals and achieve success, however large or small those goals are and whatever success means to us. This is a competitive world and it is confident people who usually get to win.
JAN FERGUSON
Perfect Confidence
Once men's confidence is thoroughly aroused it is likely to run riot.
GEORGE E. PUTNAM
The American Economic Review, Mar. 1920
No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.
PARIS HILTON
attributed, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader
Confidence is like an aura; it radiates to your outer being and makes other people gravitate toward that light.
NICOLE SCONIERS
California Schemin'
Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
CHANNING POLLOCK
attributed, The Book of Positive Quotations
Ours is the one ever-present voice in our lives. Therefore, it is crucial that our self-talk instill confidence within us and is supportive, not submerging, and that our attitudes toward ourselves help keep our spirits afloat through acceptance and trust. We are our own most important and influential buoy.
SUE PATTON THOELE
The Woman's Book of Confidence
Total self-confidence is built through positive expectations. You can build positive expectations by knowing that you have the power within to overcome any obstacle that lies ahead. So many people have a magnetic attraction to the past. They save momentos, clippings, old letters, and trivia. There is nothing wrong with this, but if you want to succeed, your mind must focus on where you are going, not on where you have been. Instead of saving momentos, clippings, old letters, and trivia from the past, it would be more productive to make a scrapbook with pictures of where you want to go and what you want to be in the future.
ROBERT ANTHONY
The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence
Self-confidence cannot be totally destroyed, for it is an inbuilt ingredient of our growth and evolution. What happens is that self-confidence is suppressed by the conditioning of the mind by external forces. A negative syndrome is formed. We can overcome this syndrome by taking a strong, positive view of life.
P. C. GANESAN
How to Develop Self Confidence
To these success gives heart: they can because they think they can.
VIRGIL
Aenead
I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting.... I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence.
ARTHUR GOLDEN
Memoirs of a Geisha
False confidence is the precursor of disaster.
DAVID NOONAN
Aesop & CEO
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, Run to Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership
When you lack confidence, you will see dreams fall by the wayside, goals go unmet, and all the things you don't want happening.
CHRISTINE SMITH & ROCK BANKOLE
Captivating Confidence
Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence. Legitimate self-confidence is a winner. The true test of self-confidence is the courage to be open--to welcome change and new ideas regardless of their source. Self-confident people aren't afraid to have their views challenged. They relish the intellectual combat that enriches ideas.
JACK WELCH
Jack: Straight from the Gut
My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully cultivated under highly regulated conditions. One wrong look, one mean comment, and my facade would wither.
JUSTINA CHEN
North of Beautiful
If you never struggle with confidence, you obviously are not stretching yourself far enough. You are not pressing to the edge of your abilities. In other words, the only way to never struggle with confidence is to play it safe. Play it known. Play it in a way that you achieve stability, but lose opportunity.
TIMOTHY URSINY
The Confidence Plan
For the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught.
KING SOLOMON
Proverbs 3:26