Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sean Burke

It's always a good feeling. You want to contribute, you want to be a guy your team has confidence in. When you can go out there and do the job, that's why you play.

It's always easier to play with a two goal leader. That was especially true tonight because right before we scored, we were fighting the puck. The goal gave us more confidence and relaxed us.

It looks like the economy is stabilizing after the hurricane-related stresses and we're heading into the holidays with an upturn in confidence that is encouraging and bodes well for the good consumer spending over the next month or so.

It made a big difference. It gave us a lot of confidence going into the half. Confidence is really important at this point -- to just feel good about what you're doing. That was huge.

Henry David Thoreau

If one hesitates in his path, let him not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them.

Henry David Thoreau

Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.

Jeremy Collier

Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.

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.

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.

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.

Georges Danton

Boldness, and again boldness, and always boldness!

Hillary Clinton

I think it's understandable that when questions are raised, people maybe are thinking about them and wondering about them, but I have every confidence that during the course of this campaign, people are going to know who will fight for them, who will be there when they need them, and that's the kind of person I am and that's what I will do, not only in a campaign but as president.

Esther Hicks

We want you to stop caring about what anybody else's response is to you. And when you get there, they'll all really, really like you. It's the strangest thing. When you need their approval, you never get it. And when you don't need their approval, you're so tuned in, everybody wants to be with you.

Esther Hicks

It's about you, giving yourself permission to be who you are, without giving a rip about what anybody else is thinking about it.

Esther Hicks

The universe knows the perfect timing for all those things you want and will find, through the crack of least resistance, the best way to deliver it to you.

The greatest possession is Self-possession.

Etty Hillesum

If one burdens the future with one's worries, it cannot grow organically. I am filled with confidence, not that I shall succeed in worldly things, but that even when things go badly for me I shall still find life good and worth living.

Horace

Who has self-confidence will lead the rest.

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.

Erica Jong

You reach a point in life where you realize that you might as well do what you need to do, because your being loved or not being loved is really a function of the people you encounter and not of yourself. That is an immensely liberating insight.

Eoin Colfer

Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.

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.