Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.

Georges Danton

Boldness, and again boldness, and always boldness!

Jennifer Lopez

I'll just get better as I go along because I'm open to getting better. If you have the goods, there's nothing to be afraid of. If somebody doesn't have the goods, they're insecure. I don't have that problem

James Cameron

But failure has to be an option in art and in exploration - because it's a leap of faith. And no important endeavor that required innovation was done without risk. You have to be willing to take those risks....

Jada Pinkett Smith

Lack of confidence is what makes you want to change somebody else's mind. When you're OK, you don't need to convince anyone else in order to empower yourself.

Francois Rabelais

I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.

Christina Aguilera

I think that whatever size or shape body you have, it's important to embrace it and get down!

George Santayana

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

George Michael

I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Jeanette Winterson

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

Jeannette Walls

I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.

Frank Robinson

I haven't seen a player in this game, as long as I've been in it, that can't be pitched to... Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out.

George Thorogood

Not to this extent but from day one I had an awful lot of confidence when I got started.

Felix Frankfurter

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

Fay Weldon

Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late.

Francis Bacon

Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

Jean Sibelius

If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.

Horace

Who has self-confidence will lead the rest.

Chauncey Billups

He tore the kid's confidence apart. It was tough for him to recover. ... The kid has unbelievable talent.

He's wrestling real well. He's wrestling on the offensive. He just has a lot of confidence right now.

Bryant McKinnie

He's won a Super Bowl. I have confidence in Brad, but I'm not going to say for the next three years.

GDP numbers could surprise a little to the upside, and that may be why the Fed said what it did. Confidence numbers could also be surprising, in light of recent reports.

Jennifer James

Gary has definitely instilled a lot of confidence in the team this year.

Get him back there, be a little more successful, enjoy it again, get his confidence back up, work on the things he needs to work on, then we'll see where we go from there.

Sergey Lavrov

Generally and in principle when confidence in the Iranian nuclear program is re-established ... we could come back to the possible implementation of the right that Iran has to develop a nuclear energy sector full scale.

For no other reason than confidence it's a big night for me, ... I've never had three hits in a game and that gives me a lot of confidence.

Brett's a good player. He just needs an opportunity. As we progress this season, I think he will get more opportunities. We have confidence in him.

Brett is a confident pitcher right now. When a pitcher has the type of confidence that he has, and the type of pitches he throws, it makes him tough to beat.

Sue Simmons

Brittany doesn't give herself enough credit. She plays as a guard and forward for me, and is valuable to the team. She just needs some confidence in her shooting.

James Williams

Everything has been great. There were a lot of doubts before the season. No one thought we could do this. We weren't sure how good we could be, but we knew we could be a good team. Our confidence has been growing each week.

Even though it's not the regular season, it gets the monkey off his back, ... You could see once he scored his first goal how excited he got, how much confidence he got.

Bill Romanowski

Bill's been very poised, and he's handled the year well. When he has needed to be inspirational he has been. When he's needed to be tough, he has been. It's one of those things where he's done all the right things. He's made all the right moves. I've got a lot of confidence in this guy.