Confidence Quotes - Page 19

The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

If we do have realistic confidence in our mind and value, if we feel secure within ourselves, we tend to experience the world as open to us and to respond appropriately to challenges and opportunities.

Don't believe everything you read.

One of the first ways to begin building your self-confidence is to focus on what's great about you.

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

Incompetence annoys me. Overconfidence terrifies me.

Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.

The more validation I need, the less discernment I have.

I think that's kind of indicative of a type of self-confidence that people develop when they recognize their own ability to create.

A better you means a better universe.

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Anger and hatred lead to fear; compassion and concern for others allow us to develop self-confidence, which breeds trust and friendship.

With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.

As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.

Self-confidence comes naturally when your inner life and your outer life are in harmony.

We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy; that the phenomenon of craving is limited to this class and never occurs in the average temperate drinker. These allergic types can never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve.

Self-confidence is not pride. Just the contrary: only a person or a nation that is self-confident, in the best sense of the word, is capable of listening to others, accepting them as equals, forgiving its enemies and regretting its own guilt.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves a number of obscure men who have only remained obscure because their timidity has prevented them from making a first effort; and who, if they could only have been induced to begin, would in all probability have gone great lengths in the career of fame.

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.

My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.

We must believe in ourselves or no one will believe in us.

We need self-confidence in our ability to build Africa. I trust in Mali and I trust in music.

How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.

There's no such thing as lack of confidence. You either have it or you don't.