Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Sakic

We didn't think scoring would be a problem. It's hard to explain. I think the confidence was there, but we were just too tentative and didn't generate on the inside. Yesterday was a new start for us. We thought we'd improve, but it didn't happen.

Sydney Smith

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.

Sydney Smith

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

Richard Grasso

We have rebuilt the infrastructure to the point where I'm confident that 85 million Americans can be back in the greatest market in the world,

Chris Reed

We have played very well at home all season. For whatever reason, we play much more confident when we are here. I know personally I enjoy every second I'm on the court when we are here.

Brian Tracy

Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem.

Brian Tracy

Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.

Brian Tracy

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

Brian Tracy

Self-confidence comes naturally when your inner life and your outer life are in harmony.

Brian Tracy

Happiness and self-confidence come naturally when you feel yourself moving and progressing toward becoming the very best person you can possibly be.

Brian Tracy

The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.

Brian Johnson

I've learned what works and what doesn't, which gives me confidence.

Chris Jones

We acknowledge they're a good team. But we know we have a good team, too. I feel confident about our chances.

We always have confidence but to have the success that we did on the ground today was a little surprising. The line provided a lot of holes and seams. We did a good job of keeping them guessing.

We always have a Plan B, and we're working on a C and D. We are confident we're going to find someone. All the ingredients are here. It's just a matter of what lucky group will open the store.

Gary Bettman

We always had confidence in the game and our fans,

When you've had as many wins as we've had, our confidence has been up. But they've got a great team. This district is going to be anybody's.

William Shakespeare

Be as just and gracious unto me, As I am confident and kind to thee.

Alan Shearer

We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.

Charles de Gaulle

One cannot govern with 'buts'.

Charles Dickens

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.

Charles Caleb Colton

When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid caution of age. Manhood is the isthmus between the two extremes; the ripe and fertile season of action, when alone we can hope to find the head to contrive, united with the hand to execute.

Alain Prost

I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.

Al Neuharth

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.

David Storey

The confidence of ignorance will always overcome the indecision of knowledge

Carter G. Woodson

The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.

Carter G. Woodson

In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.

Jay Wright

We want to shoot 3s. We have great confidence in Allan and Mike and Randy, especially. Those three are pretty deadly.

Jay Wright

We want to shoot 3s, ... We have great confidence in Allan and Mike and Randy, especially. Those three are pretty deadly.

Chogyam Trungpa

Developing confidence is like watching the sun rise. First it seems very feeble and one wonders whether it will make it. Then it shines and shines.

Chen Shui-bian

I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan.

Chen Shui-bian

Even if I were knocked down by one gunshot it wouldn't affect our democracy and I wasn't knocked down and I have great confidence in our democracy and in Taiwan and in the people of Taiwan.

Charles Rosen

The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.