quotations about confidence
Confidence is a fine trait. Overconfidence isn't.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON
Obsidian Butterfly
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
Lack of confidence is what makes you want to change somebody else's mind. When you're OK, you don't need to convince anyone else in order to empower yourself.
JADA PINKETT SMITH
Good Housekeeping, Sept. 2009
Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.
EOIN COLFER
Artemis Fowl
Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you.
CYNTHIA KERSEY
Unstoppable Women
The pleasure that arises from inward serenity is due to the confidence that one has in one's own inner truth.
YI JING
"Tui: Joy," , The Photographic I Ching
So my confidence doesn't come from not having any fear. It comes from trusting that in spite of my fear, I'm going to act; I'm going to take one step after another toward my goal.
BARBARA DE ANGELIS
Confidence
We all intuitively know that confidence is important. Most of us know that if you always struggle with confidence then something is wrong. Either you are suffering from low self-esteem or you are working or living in the wrong place. It just doesn't match. However, did you know that 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.
TIM URSINY
The Confidence Plan
This newfound confidence is like a caffeine high, but we have all experienced the crash.
VALENDA ROBINSON
Your Weight Is Over
Confidence is like a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls.
MATTHEW LEE SMITH
In His Image
Confidence is keeping your chin up; overconfidence is sticking your neck out.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Confidence is almost all about perception. Very few people are wholly confident in every area of their life. Those who appear to be so are probably good at acting -- with themselves as the audience.
KATE BURTON & BRINLEY N. PLATTS
Building Self-Confidence for Dummies
For me, being confident means being in complete peace with oneself. I've learned to love myself and I am proud to be who I am. Treat yourself as you would treat others, at the end of the day you are your biggest supporter.
JOHANNA ACS
"This Is What 7 Miss Universe Contestants Look Like Without Makeup", MSN, January 23, 2017
Does everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure. Either I felt completely useless, unattractive, and worthless, or that I was pretty much a success, and everything I did was bound to succeed. When I was confident, I could overcome the hardest challenges. But all it took was the smallest setback for me to be sure that I was utterly worthless. Regaining my self-confidence had nothing to do with success...whether I experienced it as a failure or triumph was utterly dependent on my mood.
BERNHARD SCHLINK
The Reader
Confidence sounds like rock and roll, loud, strong and played without apology.
TIMOTHY URSINY
The Confidence Plan
Having confidence is like having the keys to the kingdom.
DAG ALBRIGHT
How to Meet and Pick Up Women
Confidence and doubt are like two bulls in a car--either confidence is going to stay or your doubts or insecurities are going to stay, but there is not room for both to remain.
KEITH JOHNSON
The Confidence Makeover
A person without confidence is like a jumbo jet sitting on the runway with an empty fuel tank.
KEITH JOHNSON
The Confidence Makeover
Though an army besiege me,
my heart will not fear;
though war break out against me,
even then I will be confident.
BIBLE
Psalm 27:3
The best way for you to gain confidence is to prepare so well on something ... that there can be little chance to fail.
FRANK CUMMINS LOCKWOOD
Public Speaking Today