quotations about confidence
Self-confidence cannot be totally destroyed, for it is an inbuilt ingredient of our growth and evolution. What happens is that self-confidence is suppressed by the conditioning of the mind by external forces. A negative syndrome is formed. We can overcome this syndrome by taking a strong, positive view of life.
P. C. GANESAN
How to Develop Self Confidence
Quiet confidence is like having your very own spotlight.
CHERYL KIMBALL
Horse Showing for Kids
Lack of confidence is what makes you want to change somebody else's mind. When you're OK, you don't need to convince anyone else in order to empower yourself.
JADA PINKETT SMITH
Good Housekeeping, Sept. 2009
This newfound confidence is like a caffeine high, but we have all experienced the crash.
VALENDA ROBINSON
Your Weight Is Over
Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
CHANNING POLLOCK
attributed, The Book of Positive Quotations
For the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught.
KING SOLOMON
Proverbs 3:26
My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully cultivated under highly regulated conditions. One wrong look, one mean comment, and my facade would wither.
JUSTINA CHEN
North of Beautiful
Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.
EOIN COLFER
Artemis Fowl
For me, being confident means being in complete peace with oneself. I've learned to love myself and I am proud to be who I am. Treat yourself as you would treat others, at the end of the day you are your biggest supporter.
JOHANNA ACS
"This Is What 7 Miss Universe Contestants Look Like Without Makeup", MSN, January 23, 2017
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.
JACK WELCH
Jack: Straight from the Gut
Confidence is a good name for what is intended by the term directness. It should not be confused, however, with self-confidence which may be a form of self-consciousness -- or of "cheek." Confidence is not a name for what one thinks or feels about his attitude it is not reflex. It denotes the straightforwardness with which one goes at what he has to do. It denotes not conscious trust in the efficacy of one's powers but unconscious faith in the possibilities of the situation. It signifies rising to the needs of the situation.
JOHN DEWEY
Democracy and Education
Low self-confidence is simply a problem of Awareness. Once you are aware of the Truth about yourself, you will be able to understand why you are the way you are and, most importantly, learn to love and accept yourself.
ROBERT ANTHONY
The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence
If you never struggle with confidence, you obviously are not stretching yourself far enough. You are not pressing to the edge of your abilities. In other words, the only way to never struggle with confidence is to play it safe. Play it known. Play it in a way that you achieve stability, but lose opportunity.
TIMOTHY URSINY
The Confidence Plan
So my confidence doesn't come from not having any fear. It comes from trusting that in spite of my fear, I'm going to act; I'm going to take one step after another toward my goal.
BARBARA DE ANGELIS
Confidence
Having confidence is like having the keys to the kingdom.
DAG ALBRIGHT
How to Meet and Pick Up Women
Does everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure. Either I felt completely useless, unattractive, and worthless, or that I was pretty much a success, and everything I did was bound to succeed. When I was confident, I could overcome the hardest challenges. But all it took was the smallest setback for me to be sure that I was utterly worthless. Regaining my self-confidence had nothing to do with success...whether I experienced it as a failure or triumph was utterly dependent on my mood.
BERNHARD SCHLINK
The Reader
Confidence and doubt are like two bulls in a car--either confidence is going to stay or your doubts or insecurities are going to stay, but there is not room for both to remain.
KEITH JOHNSON
The Confidence Makeover
A person without confidence is like a jumbo jet sitting on the runway with an empty fuel tank.
KEITH JOHNSON
The Confidence Makeover
Real confidence doesn't disappear when things don't go right.
SUZY GREAVES
Real Confidence: Stop feeling small and start being brave
Confidence is keeping your chin up; overconfidence is sticking your neck out.
EVAN ESAR
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