Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

We stayed confident because we have a lot of confidence in this team. So we waited and we know it will be good for us, but it was very hard today. We are very, very happy.

Hayley Hasselhoff

It's all about confidence and how you feel about yourself. There's no such thing as a perfect woman. I like imperfections - that's what makes you unique.

We gave them life quickly after our inspiring goals and that's when you want to shut a team down and take away any confidence they might have.

We don't know enough about the impact to be able to say with any confidence that we're not creating a huge problem,

We work hard to motivate them. Through the year they gain interest and their confidence level is high.

We worked hard to motivate them, and through the year they gained interest and had a high confidence level.

We want to have a quiet confidence throughout this entire tournament. We need to be sure of ourselves, but not think that we have it in the bag.

We didn't have any timeouts, and I wanted to get Luke's (Briggs's) confidence back up and take the points and get into halftime. At that point, I really didn't feel that we had the momentum to score (a touchdown).

Clint Hurdle

We are new at this. We are starting to like it. We need to keep it going. Each one is a confidence builder. Each one helps the guys feel they belong. Guys each get a chance, and when they perform, they feel good about themselves.

Dustin Johnson

I hit the ball really well... had a lot of good looks at birdie all day, it's firm but you could control your golf ball, for sure. Today I controlled my ball very well. The confidence is definitely there. I feel really good about where I'm at and going into tomorrow.

Bobby Bowden

Time will tell. It should help our confidence. Next week we'll be playing a team we should be favored over (I-AA The Citadel). You expect your confidence level grows because we haven't had it lately. We haven't had it the last five years.

Lance Berkman

To win the series we obviously had to win at least one game here. It was big for our confidence, not having won one here last year, to pick up this victory. But that doesn't mean we're going to sweep them when we go home. They're a tough team. This is going to be a long series. I think it's going to go six or seven games. Hopefully we'll come out on top.

Sean Miller

You lose your confidence when the shot doesn't go in. He seemed to really regain it in the second half, and I hope he keeps it all season. Sometimes you just need one to go in to make that hoop bigger.

Today's confidence report going up is somewhat negative for the front end.

Jill Hennessy

To be a good model, I'd need a lot more confidence, ... and more confidence to be more bare.

Up and down the lineup, everybody pitched in. I think this will give us confidence to keep working hard and keep getting better.

I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done.

We grew up today. We took a stride in the right direction. That's something we'd been missing - that attitude, that killer instinct, that swagger and that confidence that you need to win games this time of year.

We grew in confidence tonight. The younger girls feel that their going to have a big year next year.

Daniel Kahneman

People exaggerate their confidence in their plans - something we call the planning fallacy... The existence of the plan tends to induce overconfidence.

Confucius

There are 3 elements essential in the matters of the State, Food, Military equipment, and Confidence of the people in the ruler. Of these 3, Military Equipment is the least important, Food being the 2nd important, and Confidence of the people being the MOST important. All men rather die of starvation than in war, but nevertheless all men do die of old age. Lacking in Confidence from the people, a state cannot survive.

Cybill Shepherd

One of my mottos is flaunt what you've got left.

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.

Dan Rather

I've tried everything. I can say to you with confidence, I know a fair amount about LSD. I've never been a social user of any of these things, but my curiosity has carried me into a lot of interesting areas.

Dan Marino

If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself.

Eamon de Valera

When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.

We understand the offence so much better right now that we are able to go deeper. If we don't get to our first option, we now have the confidence to wait and go to our second, third, fourth or fifth option and not get flustered.

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.