Confidence Quotes - Page 30

Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.

Build wisdom and confidence in others by forcing them to think and decide for themselves.

I love Tina Turner. I'm one of Tina Turner's biggest fans. Tina Turner was a big influence on me to become a singer. A role model and in a way she gave me back my confidence in choosing my material.

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.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it's not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, 'Hey, I can't really figure those things out.'

I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon.

Mediocrity is a hand-rail.

The best way to help Burma is to empower the people of Burma, to help us have enough self-confidence to obtain what we want for ourselves.

I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.

Confidence is the foundation for all business relations. The degree of confidence a man has in others, and the degree of confidence others have in him, determines a man's standing in the commercial and industrial world.

At the level at which I work with people, their great talent is paired with great insecurity. Self-doubt is literally the twin of self-confidence. And I have to be there for both.

He can talk to himself about his dreams, hopes and aspirations. He can convince himself that there is a place for him and an important work for him to do.

You have to have confidence in what you're doing.

Men give their confidence at once, but never their money.

To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.

I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed.

Adolescents swing from euphoric self-confidence and a kind of narcissistic strength in which they feel invulnerable and even immortal, to despair, self-emptiness, self-deprecation. At the same time they seem to see an emerging self that is unique and wonderful, they suffer an intense envy which tears narcissism into shreds, and makes other people's qualities hit them like an attack of lasers.

National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.

A successful man has the following qualities: A smile that doesn't die; patience; fearless mind; love; self- confidence; love for everybody.

Don't rely on others to show you the way. Carry your own map.

When Serena Williams is number one, its hard to think of being number one, but still I have confidence that I can win more titles and reach a higher ranking.

Self-confidence is the most important thing, and this comes from identifying your goals, knowing your limits and roping in all the help you can get.

Self-confidence means thinking all the time, "God is in me... God is doing every­thing . . . without God I cannot be . . . all this is God . . . I only want to think of God."

I was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom