Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Schopenhauer

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Brooke Shields

Eight shows a week is daunting, and it can be terrifying. But it just instills such a sense of confidence and growth.

Bob Ney

The bottom line in my view is that America's mothers and fathers deserve to have confidence in law enforcement's ability to ensure that their children are being raised in the safest possible environment.

Bill Parcells

I have always felt like you really don't have a genuine confidence unless you demonstrate the ability to do something. You can talk about it, but you have to demonstrate it.

Beyonce Knowles

Do what you were born to do. You just have to trust yourself.

Bernhard Schlink

Does everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure. Either I felt completely useless, unattractive, and worthless, or that I was pretty much a success, and everything I did was bound to succeed. When I was confident, I could overcome the hardest challenges. But all it took was the smallest setback for me to be sure that I was utterly worthless. Regaining my self-confidence had nothing to do with success...whether I experienced it as a failure or triumph was utterly dependent on my mood.

Eddie Murphy

I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Self-confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk-running and chance-taking are the only ways to catch it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I set out to be the best and I am.

Edwin Moses

I don't really see the hurdles. I sense them like a memory.

Benjamin Franklin

Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that makes it.

Arthur Golden

I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, " he explained. "I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence.

Baltasar Gracian

Never participate in the secrets of those above you; you think you share the fruit, and you share the stones - the confidence of a prince is not a grant, but a tax

Baltasar Gracian

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

Arianna Huffington

The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are - as women and as mothers.

B. C. Forbes

Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, man consumed with earnestness of purpose, with confidence in his powers, with faith in the worthwhileness of his endeavors.

B. C. Forbes

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

There is a seasonal cyclicality to that. The March quarter isn't going to be as high as the December quarter. Customers have to do some digestion, and by time Dec. 31 rolls around I'm fairly confident they'll exceed 1999.

There is a question as to whether they have full confidence in their own evidence.

Phil Dawson

There are no moral victories. You can't really gain confidence and say. We hung with this team.' It's all about winning.

James Fisher

The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence.

The only way to get confidence is to practice very hard. We've been doing that the last eight days in Palm Springs, working very, very hard, playing five hours of tennis and working in the gym.

We're playing pretty well. We're fairly confident, not confident like we're going to win, but confident playing-wise.

We thought we contained them fairly. They started missing some shots, and when that happens you start thinking about it more. It could have been a confidence thing.

Tubby Smith

We really haven't played a good game. When we're shooting like we are and things are not falling into place, that's when your confidence is shot.

We really felt she just needed some time and reps. Now she's relaxing, hitting her target and has confidence in controlling her pitches.

Lindy Ruff

We really feel we've got a hidden gem if we can get him back to that level that he was at the end of '03-04. I'm confident that we can get him there.

We really don't have reserves. We've been playing a lot of kids a lot of minutes, so it doesn't matter the situation. I've got a lot of confidence in them.

Daniel Gibson

We're a confident group of guys. We definitely think that we can go all the way.

We're a confident bunch. I think we'll do well. It all depends on the draw, and I'd like to see us play up to our potential every night and see how we do.

We're a better team than the first time we played North Carolina. We have better confidence in what we are doing.

We're 24-6; we feel pretty confident we're in. A lot of other teams lost (Thursday), as well. But it's always hard when you take everything out of your own control.

We're a pretty confident team at home and no matter what the score is we are pretty confident that we can pull the game out. We knew they had a good team because they've won nine in a row. We knew we had our hands full and everybody stepped up.