Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anna Quindlen

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

Andy Rooney

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.

Anais Nin

I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair.

Ansel Adams

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

Amy Chua

There's nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn't.

Anna Deavere Smith

Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.

Andrew Shue

Community service has taught me all kinds of skills and increased my confidence. You go out there and think on your feet, work with others and create something from nothing. That's what life's all about.

Amelie Mauresmo

Right now I have more confidence in myself. I grew up.

Andy Kindler

I do have insecurities. I don't know if you can tell. I'm not brimming with confidence.

Boomer Esiason

The day that they signed him, if I was a Jet player, I'd be like, 'OK, we're back in this thing,' ... At least they have somebody to rally around. If they win this week, which I think they can . . . maybe they get a little confidence and they'll start surprising themselves. That's why I say, 'Why not?'

Brian Dawkins

Winning does something to you. It releases something in you, it's confidence and you get that nasty taste of losing out of your mouth. You get that losing mentality out of your system. That first game is going to be critical. Once we get that first game, hopefully it will be this week, we can start doing what we need to do for the rest of the season.

Winning that first one is a big confidence booster. I don't think the girls will be going to states (Feb. 27) thinking about finishing second.

Who ever does not respect confidence will never find happiness in their path.

While (Wilma won't affect) the oil sector, expect the insurance, retail and construction sectors to be heavily traded this week. With the October Consumer confidence and home sales due out later, the U.S. market could well end up deep in the red as inflation keeps the pressure on.

We continue to make adjustments. The show is much better as a result. It's a difficult and challenging job for an actor, because you're continually in rehearsal. Ideally, it would be great to open and do shows being confident that we know what we're doing. In our process, that's difficult. But in another way it's great, because people have to be quick on their toes and flexible about improvisation.

We continue to be confident about our legal position. We think the law is very much on our side in all the major issues of this case.

We feel confident we'll get this finished. I'm being positive.

We feel confident that we found all of them.

Stephen Brennan

We feel confident that we can reach larger targets than we set.

We feel confident that this is what actually occurred.

We feel confident that this is the source of the outbreak,

We feel confident that our systems are secure. You can recreate an entire election. It's fully auditable.

We can't foresee a good growth scenario in Europe. This is convincing investors to look for other markets that can grow more and yet provide confidence in stability.

We were up by one at halftime; we were so close. I still have a lot of confidence that we are a good team.

Aaron Boone

We'll definitely get over this. The good thing is that we'll go to spring training with a focus and a confidence that we can do this. But now we'll go home and think about what could have been.

Well, defensively we're returning all of our starters so if I don't have confidence in our defense then we're in trouble. I expect more of the same.

We'll be working on keeping confidence high. We'll also continue working hard at practice and maintaining team chemistry. This is a total team effort.

Dennis Hastert

When it comes to a question of the safety of our troops, I don't think we should have any question at all. For our members to move a piece of legislation, they have to have confidence that we do no harm, that we actually make sure that our troops are safe.

We can say with confidence that this mission is feasible and can be completed.

We're all professionals in here and everyone can give a little more and be a little better. We have to play with more confidence and more urgency.

We're all playing well right now and have been working hard this entire week, so we couldn't be more confident about our games. It would be great if we could get everybody in the top 10 or even in the top seven for the All-Ivy team.

Billy Donovan

When he's letting it go and shooting with confidence like that, it makes us a different team. Some days, it might not be his night, but we need for him to continue to be aggressive.

Stephanie Beacham

What I mean to say is that I'm old enough now and confident enough now not to be frightened of any of the possibilities life might offer.