Confidence Quotes

• Those who know they're valued irrespective of their accomplishments often end up accomplishing quite a lot. It's the experience of being accepted without conditions that helps people develop a healthy confidence in themselves, a belief that it's safe to take risks and try new things.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Experience
  • Develop
  • Risks

• You can write ten versions of a scene, and then, on the day, discover that something in the original scene worked. It's hard on writers. Hard on actors, hard on editors, hard on me, hard on the producers, who require patience and confidence. But I can't get to the end without going through this process.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Confidence
  • Patience

• I was desperately shy when I was wee. Totally lacked confidence socially. When I look back at school photographs, I'm always the one shrinking in the back. What I really wanted to do was become a writer, and I don't think the residue of that has ever gone away. I still feel the ultimate achievement would be to write a novel.

  

  Anne-Marie Duff
  • School
  • Confidence
  • Achievement

• I believe that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act must be reformed. We must improve the American public's confidence in, and perception of, our national security programs, by increasing transparency, strengthening oversight, and safeguarding civil liberties.

  

  Dutch Ruppersberger
  • Believe
  • American
  • Perception

• 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.

  

  Learned Hand
  • Rest
  • Confidence
  • Courage

• My style has changed and evolved mainly because I've grown to have more confidence in myself.

  

  Kevin Durant
  • Style
  • Confidence

• Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Time
  • God
  • Character

• Nina was always loved. Maybe that’s a bad thing. It gives people that terrible confidence that the world is going to give them the chance to fulfill themselves.

  

  John D. MacDonald
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• Persisting social crisis, the emergence of a charismatic personality, and the exploitation of mass media to obtain public confidence would be the steppingstones in the piecemeal transformation of the United States into a highly controlled society.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Society
  • Personality
  • Media

• Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach.

  

  James Wolfe
  • Up
  • Success
  • Confidence

• My first two books, I was very close to my main character, stuck inside their head. And then with 'Arrogance,' I broke into many different voices. I introduce many different characters, and that helped me to develop a confidence to move between different characters, between different voices.

  

  Joanna Scott
  • Different
  • Character
  • Confidence

• I am deeply honored by the trust the board has placed in me to lead Duke Energy. I have a high degree of confidence in the strength of our company's leadership and dedicated employees.

  

  Lynn Good
  • High
  • Energy
  • Trust

• What I think I've learned is that you're never going to get it all right, and you can't obsess about having a fact wrong or a date wrong or something like that, as long as you tried as best you could. If you've done the kind of research that you're sure is pretty good, then you just have to have confidence in it, so that nothing is perfect in life. I think that is what the criticism has helped me to understand.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Life
  • Good
  • Long

• Chicago has a burly, action-oriented but still self-assured and relaxed confidence to its stride. The city has a lot of wide-open space and all the possibilities that suggests. There's a lot of horizontal grandeur here.

  

  Kurt Elling
  • Action
  • City
  • Space

• There is no one who is present all the time, but you work on becoming present when you are interacting with people who are working for you, being able to hear them without a sense of threat, to go into those meetings with confidence and not arrogance.

  

  Amy Cuddy
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• In government institutions and in teaching, you need to inspire confidence. To achieve credibility, you have to very clearly explain what you are doing and why. The same principles apply to businesses.

  

  Janet Yellen
  • Why
  • Confidence

• Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Action
  • Builder
  • Restorer

• We had a miserable first year (6-10 in 2004), and that's real hard on you. So you go in the second year knowing you've got to make something happen. Being able to get 10 wins, that helps a lot. It gives the whole organization confidence. If we hadn't gotten into the playoffs, it would've been a real downer. Getting in the playoffs was somewhat of a turning point for us.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Real
  • Organization
  • Result

• Dance has always been the center of who I am. It has given me the inspiration to help other people find a hobby, passion, and activity that fulfills them. It also taught me some of the many skills I need as an entrepreneur: a hard work ethic that takes practice to master and the confidence to persevere through any challenges.

  

  Payal Kadakia
  • Passion
  • Dance
  • Inspiration

• I have confidence that the government of Luxembourg will not make any decision that frustrates this transaction.

  

  Lakshmi Mittal
  • Decision
  • Confidence

• When you engage in systematic, purposeful actin, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident abut yourself.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Help
  • Positive
  • inspirational

• Even if consumer confidence hit rock bottom, that most likely would not be enough, by itself, to cause a depression.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Rock
  • Confidence
  • Depression

• I think people are always like, 'She's a model-turned-actress.' And I don't want to turn actress. I want to do both. I wouldn't have built the confidence to do acting if I didn't model.

  

  Dree Hemingway
  • People
  • She
  • Model

• I think it's important to take a look behind the numbers, ... As the economy gains steam and people gain confidence about their job prospects they will declare themselves back in the job market and the unemployment rate may increase. That's I think what we're seeing today.

  

  Elaine Chao
  • People
  • Important
  • May

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