Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lionel Blue

If a dish doesn't turn out right, change the name and don't bat an eyelid. A fallen souffle is only a risen omelette. It depends on the self-confidence with which you present it.

Lindsey Vonn

I never felt sidelined, I was supported by my friends, my family and my team. I always knew I could do it. I had confidence in myself.

Lindsey Vonn

Today it was win or lose. But my victory yesterday and the downhill globe boosted my confidence. My record in Cortina was also a liberation.

Leo Tolstoy

Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

Lester B. Pearson

We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

Karl Rove

You may be right that people say: You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy had great rhetoric, sounded good, looked good, but has turned out to be an utter disaster. I want someone where I have confidence and credibility that they're up to the job and that I can trust what they tell me.

Peter V. Brett

Let others determine your worth and you're already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves.

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.

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.

Julius Caesar

As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.

Kamisese Mara

Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs.

Kanye West

Come on now! How could you be me and want to be someone else?

Joyce Meyer

Sadly, if we are not confident about our choices, we can easily let other peoples' comments make us feel guilty and ruin the joy we need to experience in life through doing the little things that mean a lot to us.

Ovid

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Mary Wortley Montagu

You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.

Niccolo Machiavelli

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.

Joe Montana

Confidence is a very fragile thing.

Joe Namath

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Confidence is conqueror of men; victorious both over them and in them; The iron will of one stout heart shall make a thousand quail; A feeble dwarf, dauntlessly resolved, will turn the tide of battle, And rally to a nobler strife the giants that had fled.

Madonna Ciccone

I don't take drugs. I never did. All the feelings that drugs are supposed to produce in you - confidence or energy - I can produce naturally.

Lucille Ball

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

Lizz Winstead

By some fluke, my folks forgot to ask me the question most crucial to ensuring a lifetime of self-doubt: 'What if you fail?

Mia Hamm

I was given a tremendous gift in terms of athleticism. Maybe it was because I wasn't so confident in other areas.

Michel de Montaigne

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Michel de Montaigne

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

Michel de Montaigne

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

Michel de Montaigne

I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.

Michel de Montaigne

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.