Confidence Quotes - Page 12

Fortune befriends the bold.

When someone is unrelentingly critical of you, always finds fault, can never be pleased, and blames you for everything that goes wrong, it is the insidious nature and cumulative effects of the abuse that do the damage. Over time, this type of abuse eats away at your self-confidence and sense of self-worth, undermining any good feelings you have about yourself and about your accomplishments .

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

What is your peace all about? What is your comfort all about? Where do you get your love? Where do you get your talents? And I can turn to them and say without blinking, ‘Jesus Christ.’

Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.

If you face life without confidence in your own powers, you succumb too easily to setbacks and adversity; you lack the will to persevere.

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

I don't think there is a thing like overconfidence in chess. It's always better to be too confident than too reluctant.

The most beautiful women I've ever observed are those that have exchanged a self-focused life for a Christ-focused one. They are confident, but not in themselves. Instead of self-confidence, they radiate with Christ-confidence.

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.

I have a confidence in my understanding of formal aesthetics and I don't want to be aware of it or make that my problem.

You can't have self confidence without some real skills that enable you to be successful.

Believe that you will succeed, and you will.

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.

Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

Whilst a man is persuaded that he has it in his power to contribute anything, be it ever so little, to his salvation, he remains in carnal self-confidence; he is not a self-despairer, and therefore is not duly humbled before God, he believes he may lend a helping hand in his salvation, but on the contrary, whoever is truly convinced that the whole work depends singly on the will of God, such a person renounces his own will and strength; he waits and prays for the operation of God, nor waits and prays in vain

Soften my hard self-opinionatedness, which time has hardened so exceedingly!

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin, but giving up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair - these are the long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust. You are as young as your faith and as old as your doubts; as young as you self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

The universe knows the perfect timing for all those things you want and will find, through the crack of least resistance, the best way to deliver it to you.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.

It really is all about believing in yourself: 80 per cent mental, 20 per cent physical.

Self confidence is the ability to exercise restraint in the face of disrespect and still show respect in response.

Knock the 't' off the 'can't.'