Famous Quotes & Sayings

Madeleine Peyroux

Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

I was discouraged about life, discouraged about people being blind, but I don't think I had a day that I ever questioned creativity. There has never been a day like that.

John Gielgud

One's self-image is very important because if that's in good shape, then you can do anything, or practically anything.

All of these crises are getting serious, and what the (U.S.) market is experiencing is a crisis of confidence.

Teemu Selanne

All the games he played in the regular season, he did his job well. We have lots of confidence in him, too, and that's a good sign.

All the evidence on consumer confidence would tell us that all spending on big-ticket items is liable to plummet in the next month or two.

Epicurus

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

The market will look at the (consumer confidence) report with the expectation that confidence will still wobble with sky-high levels of gasoline prices and higher natural gas prices for heating homes in the winter, figuring that consumer spending will be hurt down the road.

The market still has confidence in economic fundamentals and corporate earnings outlooks, and it isn't questioning those.

John Haggai

Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.

John Osborne

Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years.

John Dewey

Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.

John Calvin

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

Georg Simmel

The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.

Boris Diaw

The longest future we see is the playoffs. I feel good with the team, the organization and the city. I'm enjoying myself. The confidence was always in there, but the everyday life is easier when you play and get confidence from yourself, team and coaches.

(The Lobos) have the depth, the experience and the confidence you need to win three games in so little time. You also need good post play to really pace you when your shots might not be there from the outside.

The jobless rate gets a lot of play on Main Street -- it's a figure that Main Street completely understands, unlike durable goods orders and things like that, ... It can have a big psychological effect on confidence and spending.

James Madison

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

James Madison

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

Joe Paterno

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

Eric Thomas

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.

John McCain

The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let's extend the tax - the existing tax cuts. And then let's give some more tax breaks to small businesses and large. And then maybe the American people will have some confidence.

Jim Rohn

To have an incredible increase in self esteem, all you have to do is start doing some little something. You don't have to do spectacularly dramatic things for self esteem to start going off the scale. Just make a commitment to any easy discipline. Then another one and another one.

Leo Tolstoy

Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

Lester B. Pearson

We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

Karl Rove

You may be right that people say: You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy had great rhetoric, sounded good, looked good, but has turned out to be an utter disaster. I want someone where I have confidence and credibility that they're up to the job and that I can trust what they tell me.

Lord Byron

As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an epitaph Or any other thing that’s false Before you trust in critics.

Lord Mountbatten

The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions.

Lord Chesterfield

We are as often duped by diffidence as by confidence.

Major Taylor

I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing his level best to win, always received an ovation from the gathering.

Orison Swett Marden

Be larger than your task.

Orison Swett Marden

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.