Confidence Quotes

Faith in God is confident hope.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If we could visit Highsmith today, I would lead you down the silent corridors until we came to a striking seal on the floor, a blood-red H carved in stone. This hallowed seal represents the sacred Honor of every student who spends four years at Highsmith. The stone seal is indelible, consecrated by the generations of alumnae who have passed by, understanding and believing. No outsider, no matter how cunning, can ever steal that belief away.

~ James Klise

You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won't do a thing unless you believe it yourself.

~ Criss Jami

Naturally, I always place my word over anyone else's simply because I know why I said what I said.

~ Criss Jami

No matter what, don't live a life where you're too scared to die for what you believe in. Always go at it with everything you've got, even if it doesn't seem to be enough.

~ A.j. Darkholme

As I believe—I am, I can, I know.

~ Lorii Myers

Once you tell a man he's pretty, there's no taking it back. They think they're pretty all the time, and I suppose, in a way, they are. It's got to do with believing it.

~ Sandra Cisneros

When all help is stopped, when your loved ones started doubting your competence, when failure seems almost confirmed, but no matter what, if you make one more attempt, that final step will fetch you the victory.

~ Amit Kalantri

There is a thin line between confidence, and arrogance. Sadly those people who have no confidence often confuse the two when confronted with a person who possesses belief in themselves.

~ Sai Marie Johnson

I am a religious man! The only thing is, that in my religion, I am the God!

~ Tunk

I believe that only scientists can understand the universe. It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

~ Isaac Asimov

If I believe my ability is small, then my efforts will be shallow and my push weak. If I think I am not capable, I will not try with energy. Without strong belief, I won’t seek the knowledge required to achieve my goals. I will not launch out into the deep or push against obstacles with the force that confidence brings.

~ Stella Payton

We either base our 'confidence' on reason (evident probabilities, past experience, competence, etc) or we base our beliefs on faith, which is blind by definition. Faith is the most dishonest position it is possible to have, because it is an assertion of stoic conviction that is assumed without reason and defended against all reason. If you have to believe it on faith, you have no reason to believe it at all.

~ Aronra

I have lost confidence in myself.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Be careful of the lie you believe about yourself, sooner or later, you will be convinced of it.

~ Saji Ijiyemi

Trust is like a two-way mirror, transparent on one side, with a blind dimness unable to see through on the other side.

~ Anthony Liccione

So many people along the way,whatever it is you aspire to do, will tell you it can't be done. But it all it takes is imagination. You dream. You plan. You reach. There will be obstacles. There will doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, with belief, with confidence and trust in yourself and those around you, there no limits

~ Michael Phelps

His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

You will never have confidence in your prayers if you fail to be prudent with your words.

~ Neil Kennedy

Words only make sense when the person who says them means a lot.

~ Christian

Almost everyone is overconfident--except the people who are depressed, and they tend to be realists.

~ Joseph T. Hallinan

Even the demons are encouraged when their chief is not lost in loss itself.

~ John Milton

There are times when I'm caught up in everything and I have to say to myself, Please feel good; please feel better; everything's okay; you're fine; things aren't falling apart; take a second; get back to a place where you realize that you don't actually have real problems. That happens. You never know when those tables are gonna turn... For me, confidence is something that can come crashing down in one second.

~ Taylor Swift

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation p

~ Robert Hughes

May our effort, confidence and concern for others be the altar from which we pray for personal abundance.

~ Laura Teresa Marquez

Silence might be a shout for the truth. It might be the speech that someday, in its truest, most uncontaminated, unadulterated state, all will be revealed.

~ Criss Jami

If you wish to break with tradition, learn your craft well, and embrace adversity

~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi

You ought to endure and complete your own race of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Make time daily to nurture your physical, mental and emotional health.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What keeps you confident in a healthy way is knowing that everyone else around you is going to support you and teach you and you're going to learn from them. I just feel open to learning from people.

~ Elizabeth Olsen

An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?

~ Criss Jami

The world-wide discrimination against the autodidact has vitiated many people's confidence in determining their own goals and needs. But the same discrimination has also resulted in a multiplicity of growing minorities who are infuriated by this insidious dispossession.

~ Ivan Illich

Here is to all the brilliant minds that love deeply, for they write the stories that make us dream of true love. Here is to all the visionaries that create a miracle when others give up hope. Here is to all the artists, musicians, actors, singers, songwriters, dancers, screenwriters, philosophers, inventors and poetic hearts that create a perspective of heaven we can experience in this lifetime. But most of all, here is to the wild souls that the world calls broken, insane, abnormal, weird or different because they are the ones that renew our faith, by what they overcome and create, in a world that needs a sign that God doesn’t forget the least of us.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear.

~ Seth Godin

Of course we'll win. And even if we were to lose, we'd win at losing.

~ Criss Jami

It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

~ Criss Jami

Shine bright like a diamond.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You will finally have dignity when you realize that you are not on the path, but have become the path for others.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Self-esteem is the switch in the circuit of your life that dims or brightness of your future. Bring it low and you don't shine your light, raise it up and you brighten the corner where you are.

~ Israelmore Ayivor