Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian O'Connor

It was important to get him back out there and give him a little confidence heading into a key weekend for us.

Katie Douglas

It was important for us to get our confidence back and just start another roll.

It was important for us to get a good start and get our confidence back.

Teemu Selanne

It's awesome. The team is playing with so much confidence right now.

It says a lot about us defensively. Any time we put ourselves in position to win the game offensively, we have a chance, because our defense is going to be good. We have confidence that we can get stops.

It's a confidence thing. You look at it; wide-open nets, you squeeze the stick so tight you put it wide. You keep pressing and all of a sudden you make mistakes defensively, too.

It's a confidence thing. When you're throwing it good, it gives you more confidence. The more we play ... the better guys know the ice.

It's a confidence booster when the team can win with the top player losing.

It's a confidence booster. I'm pretty happy with the way I played.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Trust in thine own untried capacity As thou wouldst trust in God himself. Thy soul Is but an emanation from the whole. Thou dost not dream what forces lie in thee, Vast and unfathomed as the grandest sea.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Though confidence is very fine, and makes the future sunny; I want no confidence for mine, I'd rather have the money

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

He is safe who admits no one to his confidence.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Confidence always pleases those who receive it. It is a tribute we pay to their merit, a deposit we commit to their trust, a pledge that gives them a claim upon us, a kind of dependence to which we voluntarily submit.

Mike Aviles

I've been a little low on confidence lately.

I've always had great confidence that I can hit at this level - not only hit, but do very well at this level. Hopefully, this good start can lead to good things and a good year.

James Smith

I want confidence in my vote. I have no confidence.

I want a win anytime. It's just big getting the first game in a place like this. Hopefully, it will get our confidence going.

I been off the last couple of games, but I had more confidence tonight. My teammates did a good job of feeding me the ball.

Enrico Caruso

If consumer confidence keeps surprising, it's going to make it easier for the Fed to keep the accelerator on.

Jane Porter

Where there is any good disposition, confidence begets faithfulness; but distrust, if it do not produce treachery; never fails to destroy every inclination to evince fidelity. Most people disdain to clear themselves from the accusations of mere suspicion.

I'm not a true point guard but I have to show the confidence I have in myself and in my team. I have to portray to my teammates the confidence I have in my team. We've been struggling of late but that doesn't mean the season is over with.

I know we're better than what we've shown. We haven't hit our stride. It's all about confidence for us right now.

Phillips Brooks

Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.

Nathaniel Branden

To trust one's mind and to know that one is worthy of happiness is the essence of self-esteem.

Nathaniel Branden

There is no value-judgment more important to a man--no factor more decisive in his psychological development and motivation--than the estimate he passes on himself.

Nathaniel Branden

If we do have realistic confidence ... if we feel secure within ourselves, we tend to experience the world as open to us and to respond appropriately to challenges and opportunities. Self-esteem empowers, energizes, motivates. It inspires us to achieve and allows us to take pleasure and pride in our achievements.

Nathaniel Branden

If you face life without confidence in your own powers, you succumb too easily to setbacks and adversity; you lack the will to persevere.

Jack Welch

Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence. Legitimate self-confidence is a winner. The true test of self-confidence is the courage to be open—to welcome change and new ideas regardless of their source. Self-confident people aren't afraid to have their views challenged. They relish the intellectual combat that enriches ideas.

The employment picture remains fairly grim, and that's having a dampening effect on measures of consumer confidence. And we have higher energy prices, which is another drag on consumer confidence and a 'tax' on consumer spending.