Confidence Quotes
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Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away.
Charles Jencks
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My confidence came from the way I grew up, and I'm grateful for it.
Amanda Lindhout
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Developing confidence is like watching the sun rise. First it seems very feeble and one wonders whether it will make it. Then it shines and shines.
Chogyam Trungpa
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I had no confidence as a child; I still really don't. Acting is the only thing I've ever felt comfortable doing.
Kaya Scodelario
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I never had to look for confidence because I just wore what I wanted to wear. I would never wear anything to offend my husband or my mother, but outside of that, I always figured, I hope I'm not a rebel, and I hope everybody liked it. And if they didn't like it, it really was not going to disturb me because it was their problem, not mine.
Iris Apfel
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
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Christianity is entitled to the tribute of respect. I do not of course mean that all individuals, nominally Christian, deserve trust, confidence, or even respect, for the contrary is too often the case. Too often, men hold religion as they do property - in their wives' names.
David Josiah Brewer
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I really thought I wanted to be a lawyer, but then I had an epiphany when I was in law school and dropped out. I'd always been a journalism junkie, but I'd never had confidence to think that I could actually edit or write the stories.
Jodi Kantor
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Joy, confidence, and security can't begin until we are able to just be ourselves.
Chelsea Manning
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Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence.
Albert Camus
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Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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With dancing, I think the reason it's worked for me, and I love it so much, is because I've trained my entire life. Once you train, you develop your own aesthetic and your confidence. So I think, as I grow, I'm learning how to be a singer. I'm training my voice and being on stage and singing and dancing.
Jillian Hervey
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Sexiness is about confidence and individuality. I can't keep my eyes off the women you see in cities like London, New York and Paris - the way they carry themselves and put themselves together are always so unique.
Christina Hendricks
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People have confidence in you. It's easy to have confidence in somebody that's going out there every night and giving the team a chance to win.
Jake Arrieta
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I'm a great believer in our ability to come up with the ideas necessary to solve the big questions. I have less confidence that we'll be able to find a consensus about which ones are right without experiment.
Leonard Susskind
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I can say with some confidence that President Zardari's legacy will be written in golden words. I don't say this as his son, or patron-and-chief of the Pakistan People's Party - but as a student of history.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
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The confidence of ignorance will always overcome the indecision of knowledge.
David Storey
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I am disposed to be thus particular from the interest you take in our welfare and from the entire confidence I have in your knowing, that you will be sympathetic with us in our misfortunes.
John Hawley
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What we have seen the Russians do is attempt to manipulate public confidence on both sides. So we've seen them encourage people go to a protest on one side; we've seen them simultaneously encourage people to go to that same protest on the other side.
Kirstjen Nielsen
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We want to encourage the young ones to learn and get some confidence in sports. It's fun and keeps you active and moving.
Christine Taylor
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Innovation almost always is not successful the first time out. You try something, and it doesn't work, and it takes confidence to say we haven't failed yet... Ultimately, you become commercially successful.
Clayton Christensen
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Some of the greatest actors on the planet are the most insecure people. Now I don't know if that insecurity necessarily equates to a lack of confidence. Some people are just very shy individuals. You give them a character to play and a script, and you put them in front of a camera or on a stage, and they just go.
Eric Dane
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I think every woman should have the skills and confidence to be able to earn a living. A working woman is happy because she has goals beyond herself and her needs.
Twinkle Khanna
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If a cream can give you confidence then you really have to check your whole confidence department in the first place.
Freida Pinto