Quotes

To value his own good opinion, a child has to feel that he is a worthwhile person. He has to have confidence in himself as an individual.
-Sidonie Gruenberg

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
-Andre Maurois

Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.
-Mignon McLaughlin

I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general.
-Thomas Jefferson

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of 21, little did I suspect that I should be at 49, what I now am.
-Samuel Johnson

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

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.
-Pierre Corneille

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
-Abraham Lincoln

I have great faith in fools, self-confidence my friends call it.
-Edgar Allan Poe

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

The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.
-Anonymous Author

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
-Mary Kay Ash

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
-Rene Descartes

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero

Every woman who fails in a public position confirms this, but every woman who succeeds creates confidence.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

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

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
-Orison Swett Marden

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

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
-Joe Paterno

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
-Peter T. Mcintyre

True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man.
-Benjamin Burt

Here at work we're all just trying to get a job done. My people have the confidence of their convictions and they know their skills. And that occupies most of my time.
-Bill Gates

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.
-Mahatma Gandhi

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

It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes.
-Bible

In the middle of a world that had always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence.
-Rose F. Kennedy

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