Quotes on confidence
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth
Don't let anyone steal your dream. It's your dream, not theirs.
Zadra, Dan
Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance.
Unknown, Author
I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage. I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.
Hall, Arsenio
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Author, Unknown
Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
Forman, Max L.
You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
Lou Holtz and John Heisler
If I am not for myself, who will be?
Avoth, Pirke
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Tillich, Paul
Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
Wasserstein, Wendy
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
Fuller, Buckminster
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Author, Unknown
God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.
Unknown, Author
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Spirit can walk, spirit can swim, spirit can climb, spirit can crawl. There is no terrain you cannot overcome.
Hail, Irisa
Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy.
Peale, Norman Vincent
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
Ibsen, Henrik
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
Secondat, Charles Louis de
All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do... Build, therefore, your own world.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
You are perhaps the most accomplished confidence man since Charles Ponzi. I'd say you were a carnival barker, but that wouldn't be fair to carnival barkers. to former Enron CEO Keny Lay
Fitzgerald, Peter
We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.
Thorp, Roderick
Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
Ash, Mary Kay
I've spent most of my life walking under that hovering cloud, jealousy, whose acid raindrops blurred my vision and burned holes in my heart. Once I learned to use the umbrella of confidence, the skies cleared up for me and the sunshine called joy became my faithful companion.
Alauda, Astrid
What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.
Bunyan, John
Your problem is you're too busy holding onto your unworthiness.
Dass, Ram
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Edison, Thomas Alva
Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.
Kempis, Thomas à