Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sigmund Freud

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

Susan Lucci

I really always felt that I was going to be an actress. I had a lot of confidence in the fact that I would do well from a very early age. I didn't know how tough the business is.

Susan L. Taylor

Imagine how free we would feel and what we could accomplish if we could live without fear.

Susan Jeffers

The knowledge that you can handle anything that comes your way is the key to allowing yourself to take risks. ... security is not having things; it's handling things.

Sue Grafton

Poise and indifference so often look the same.

Steven Tyler

I just pretended I was someone else until that someone else became me.

T. Harv Eker

If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.

T. Harv Eker

Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don't let these feelings stop them.

Kim Novak

As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.

Katy Perry

If you're presenting yourself with confidence, you can pull off pretty much anything.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do the thing and you will have the power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self trust is the essence of heroism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great man is always willing to be little.

Lee Haney

But you can't just sit around the fireplace and sip Cokes and eat pretzels and get an attitude of confidence. You have to put in hard work.

Tennessee Williams

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

Reese Witherspoon

Confidence is everything in this business.

Timothy Radcliffe

To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.

Tim Gunn

You have no control over other people's taste, so focus on staying true to your own.

Robert Ringer

If you are prepared, then you are able to feel confident.

Robert Mueller

The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America.

Wally Amos

It's so important to believe in yourself. Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief just keeps you searching for the answers, and then pretty soon you get it.

Winona Ryder

I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.

William J. H. Boetcker

Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.

William J. H. Boetcker

Confidence is the foundation for all business relations. The degree of confidence a man has in others, and the degree of confidence others have in him, determines a man's standing in the commercial and industrial world.

Virginia Woolf

Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.

William Wordsworth

A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows.

William Ellery Channing

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

Wole Soyinka

I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.

Wilma Rudolph

I tell them that the most important aspect is to be yourself and have confidence in yourself.

William Hazlitt

Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it

William Hazlitt

There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which, we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect, the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.

William Hazlitt

Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.