Famous Quotes & Sayings

The losses probably hurt our confidence early on. Losing five games in a row is never easy on a team.

Boris Diaw

The longest future we see is the playoffs. I feel good with the team, the organization and the city. I'm enjoying myself. The confidence was always in there, but the everyday life is easier when you play and get confidence from yourself, team and coaches.

The main reason for that is corporate earnings growth. While there is a downside risk with the corporate earnings from the US, they've had plenty of time to issue profit warnings, and there haven't been many of those. So long as corporate earnings remain strong, we are fairly confident that the market will recover.

(The Lobos) have the depth, the experience and the confidence you need to win three games in so little time. You also need good post play to really pace you when your shots might not be there from the outside.

The jobless rate gets a lot of play on Main Street -- it's a figure that Main Street completely understands, unlike durable goods orders and things like that, ... It can have a big psychological effect on confidence and spending.

James Madison

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

James Madison

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

Joe Paterno

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

Eric Thomas

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.

John McCain

The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let's extend the tax - the existing tax cuts. And then let's give some more tax breaks to small businesses and large. And then maybe the American people will have some confidence.

Lord Byron

As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an epitaph Or any other thing that’s false Before you trust in critics.

Lord Mountbatten

The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions.

Lord Chesterfield

We are as often duped by diffidence as by confidence.

Major Taylor

I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing his level best to win, always received an ovation from the gathering.

Henrik Ibsen

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.

Herschel Walker

Growing up, I started developing confidence in what I felt. My parents helped me to believe in myself. I wasn't the best looking guy, I wasn't the best athlete in the world, but they made me feel good about myself.

Henry Ward Beecher

The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.

Lauren Bacall

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Confidence is a fine trait. Over-confidence isn't.

John Dryden

Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts

John Dryden

For they conquer who believe they can.

John Malkovich

I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.

John Lothrop Motley

Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.

Jo Coudert

The unlived life is not worth examining. ... Self-awareness, self-examination, self-consciousness are for the quiet moments. In the arena they are paralyzing. The self must not be held out of the arena until living skills have been learned.

John C. Maxwell

They can't hurt you unless you let them.

The latest economic releases are just another sign that the economy is quite sick. I am quite confident the Fed will react aggressively.

The layoff is always hard and we felt as if we were rusty in the first half as well, and it took us a while to get through that. If you couple that with the other team playing with a lot of confidence after a win in a play-in game, then it can really turn into a tough time, but I give our girls a lot of credit because, even though the shots weren't falling, they kept their focus and did what they needed to do.

The law I will sign should give all Americans greater confidence when they fly,

The last pass was actually a pretty decent one, ... It dropped a hole (cylinder) about 500-feet into the run. We addressed the tire smoking problem and I think we can go down there and run a high 4.70 in the first round. Even racing John Force, I'm as confident as I can be. We qualified ok, but we've got the setup to race on Sunday.

George Clooney

When you're young, you tend to believe what people tell you, and that's dangerous. As you get older, you learn that you're never as good or as bad as they say you are. If you understand this, you win.

Pierre Corneille

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Pope Francis

From the peak of Chimborazo (volcano) to the Pacific coast, from the Amazon rainforest to the Galapagos Islands, may you never lose the ability to thank God for what he has done and is doing for you, may you never lose the ability to protect what is small and simple, to care for your children and your elderly, to have confidence in the young, and to be constantly struck by the nobility of your people and the singular beauty of your country.

Phillips Brooks

Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.