Confidence Quotes

A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

I do not wish to travel around the world. I already have the world trying to travel around me.

~ Lionel Suggs

...because I went to London on my own, and because I went to solved the mystery of Who Killed Wellington? and I found my mother and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.

~ Mark Haddon

When you have the courage to follow your talents into the dark unknown places they lead, often God will send angels to light your way.

~ Shannon L. Alder

While clothes may not make the woman, they certainly have a strong effect on her self-confidence, which, I believe, does make the woman.

~ Mary Kay Ash

We need to have far less confidence in what man can do and far moreconfidence in what God can do for every believing soul. He longs to haveyou reach after Him by faith. He longs to have you expect great thingsfrom Him. He longs to give you understanding in temporal as well as inspiritual matters. He can sharpen the intellect. He can give tact andskill. Put your talents into the work, ask God for wisdom, and it will begiven you.

~ Ellen G. White

Confidence is seen, not heard.

~ Kelly Clarkson

Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections, they're all too busy worrying about their own.

~ Isaac Mizrahi

Fake confidence on the outside often trumps truthful turmoil on the inside.

~ Rob Lowe

Self-doubt inflicts the deepest wounds.

~ Marty Rubin

Just because you're from a small town doesn't mean that you're small. Don't ever think anyone's more important than you are or has more valid experiences.

~ Gwendolyn Heasley

Sometimes you just know... And then it doesn't even seem scary. Just certain and joyful. Like a deep stream, flowing steady and strong, jumping and splashing and churning as it passes around and over the land in which it is grounded. And for this knowing, and flowing, I am grateful.

~ Vashti Lsc

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

It’s well to have such a comfortable assurance regarding the worth of those we love. I only wish you may not find your confidence misplaced.

~ Anne Brontë

Self-confidence depends on environment: one does not speak in the same tone in the drawing room than in the kitchen.

~ Gustave Flaubert

The problem with this generation is they are so quick to define who they are in the process of searching. It is their need for immediate acceptance that keeps them from exploring further.

~ Shannon L. Alder

One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

~ Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

Most of the time, we try to tell ourselves I'm confident or I'm doing well. But then, in a moment alone at home, you feel how close you are to some kind of abyss.

~ Christian Tetzlaff

Instinctively I started to panic when Dr. Martinez strapped my arm down, andthen the panic just melted away, la la la.Someone took my other hand. Fang. I felt his calluses, his bones, hisstrength.“I’m so glad you’re here,” I slurred, smiling dopily up at him. I took inhis startled, worried expression but dismissed it. “I know everything’s fineif you’re here.”I thought I saw his cheeks flush, but I wasn’t too sure of anything anymore.

~ James Patterson

Confidence is a pencil best sharpened with paper.

~ Kale Burton

Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Confidence is a magnet to success.

~ E'yen A. Gardner

It is easy to tell confidence from pride. Confidence lifts, encourages, helps, and is full of gratitude. Pride demeans, mocks, destroys, and is bitter and resentful.

~ Damon Throop

See what I mean? Your confidence is so strong it’s obnoxious.

~ Stacy Kramer

A hero is defined by what he or she can do, not by what he or she cannot do.

~ Damon Throop

You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.

~ Olin Miller

Elusive success is not the same as failure.

~ Damon Throop

Fighting to fit in. Confidence is paper thin.

~ Tony Alfonso

Posture reflects your attitude.

~ Cindy Ann Peterson

Think, talk, and walk like you matter.

~ Hafiz

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long even if it is the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one.

~ Louisa May Alcott

People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.

~ Edna Ferber

What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.

~ Monica Baldwin

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.

~ Channing Pollock

Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.

~ Diana Black

Self-love my liege is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

~ William Shakespeare

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

~ Lucille S. Harper

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

~ Helen Hunt Jackson

Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt and limps off the field piteous all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another.

~ Helen Hunt Jackson

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

~ Marya Mannes