Self-confidence Quotes (81 Quotes)

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

To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.

My main goal is to maintain a club year after year. It's a healthy environment for kids and helps build self-confidence. Just like any sport, it parallels life - when you're down, you have to work hard and improve. Most people don't realize the amount of stamina it takes to box. It takes a rare kid to keep showing up practice after practice. I won't let them come in with the attitude that 'I'm going to beat someone up.' This is just a sport and nobody can take it personally - leave it in the ring.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

Getting these individuals involved in skiing and snowboarding greatly impacts their day-to-day functioningphysical skills, self-confidence and social interaction.

Life is based on your self-confidence. When you trust yourself, that means you know you can do things. If you don't have that trust, that means you're always going to have doubts in your mind.

The conquering of adversity produces strength of character, forges self-confidence, engenders self-respect, and assures success in righteous endeavor.

Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.

In terms of self-confidence and faculty believing we can accomplish great things, it's a shot in the arm. ... It gives us an advantage in recruitment and tells students they can stay in the state and go to a great school. And I hope it gives our state citizens a boost, a point of pride.

Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.

I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.

That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country, and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together.

Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.

The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.

If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.

With Jockey Person to Person, comfort also means financial comfort, self-confidence, career growth, flexibility and a family-first approach.

It's pretty much a place where I come to lift weights, work out, and train for boxing. I also like it because it builds self-confidence.

Travis is skiing a lot stronger and with a lot more self-confidence, and it shows in his jumping.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

We have some very good streaks. But we don't have the self-confidence to get ourselves past when things start to go bad. When they start to go bad, they seem to go worse. Right now, that's a big hurdle for us, to stop flows from occurring.

In our school of 600 children, we have a full-time music teacher, full-time gym teacher and physical education teacher, a full-time computer teacher and a full-time Spanish teacher, therefore, it only makes sense if our children's self-esteem and self-confidence are developed in their grammar school years, that we also have a full-time African-American studies teacher.

One of the biggest things he learned was the ability to keep your self-confidence, even when somebody was saying you were wrong.

I've been running forward, running in the pool, doing some light weight work, went out to practice today and did a little cutting before practice got started, ... For my own self-confidence, to see where I'm at. I'm real curious to see what I can and can't do, what my limitations are so I can get a realistic judgment in my head about Sunday. I'm just trying to put myself through enough to see what I'm able to do.

I think it builds the self-confidence of the students, and it will get a lot of people recognized.

Every time you break an agreement you lose self-esteem, self-respect and self-confidence, and you lose other people's trust in you. Every time you keep an agreement you increase these same valuable assets accordingly. It is just the way things are.

Humor comes from self-confidence.

I don't have the self-confidence to walk around in a miniskirt and heels and a tube top. I'm still trying to learn to love and accept my body.

With the courage which only comes of justified self-confidence, he dared to rest his case upon its strongest point, and so avoided that appearance of weakness and uncertainty which comes of a clutter of arguments. Few lawyers are willing to do this it is the mark of the most distinguished talent.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

The first few days, I worked about seven hours on each scene with him. He just kept wanting to do it better. He never went to self-pity or said, 'What do you want from me' even though it was difficult. I knew he had resilience and self-confidence. He worked very hard, never complained, never was in a bad humor.

We're optimistic for Turin because of the success Germans have had in this winter season and last year. They've built up a lot of self-confidence.

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

At present they are the South African team with the most consistent level of play. They have a lot of momentum with the consecutive victories over the Cats and the Blues and they're playing with a lot of self-confidence.

A man,who realizes the potential of his mind by means of introspection and contemplation, he does not lack self-confidence. He has control over his mind and he is able to realize it's full potential.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

It was a fantastic match, ... Our first goal came after their mistake and that boosted our self-confidence. We knew that if we beat the Dutch we qualify and we went for it.

Climbing is a great sport for all kids. Not only does it help for physical fitness, it also develops a high level of self-confidence. Once kids begin climbing they develop a strong positive attitude, and a willingness to take on challenges both physical and mental that might have scared them away before they learned to climb. Parents tell us their kids often do better in school after they go climbing.

I had a lot of self-confidence.

People grow old only by deserting their ideals, Macarthur had written. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away.

I suppose that... it's really hard to tell... I mean, certainly the brightness, the dash, the excitement, the sort of self-confidence of the hand on the canvas-all that was exciting. It's hard to say how it influenced my poetry.

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

There is always a time when people are ready to move on. It's Todd's decision to make, and we all wish him the best. He taught me how to be a good competitor. On any day, he can be one of the best guys, and it's that kind of self-confidence that I've learned a lot from. I've learned don't ever count yourself out.

Instead he remains in the same loop. It takes a certain kind of self-confidence to shake up your comfort level and bring in new people who might challenge you. Bush has his inner compass and doesn't want to disturb it. That's what denial can do to a man.

Humor comes from self-confidence. There's an aggressive element to wit.

I developed a great sense of self-confidence when I was very young.

The result is something and changing the starting lineup is something else. Both teams changed the starting lineup. They won, we lost. The difference is they had the self-confidence and we didn't. I congratulate them.

You have to have a lot of self-confidence to get by in New York. If you have faith in your ability as a player or the decisions you make as a manager, you can do well. But if there are any cracks, they come out, because everything is magnified.

You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.