Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.