Confidence Quotes - page 2

Gallantry to women the sure road to their favor is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it. (William Hazlitt)
On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. View quote
Potter Stewart
The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind. View quote
Felix Frankfurter
Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is élan, esprit de corps and determination. View quote
George C. Marshall
Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence. View quote
Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation. View quote
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. View quote
Robert Hughes
There can be no friendship without confidence, an no confidence without integrity. View quote
Samuel Johnson
It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience. View quote
Jonas Salk
It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory. (Arthur Eddington)
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. View quote
Dale Carnegie
Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence. View quote
Wynton Marsalis
Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, and justice. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
Confidence is the bond of friendship. View quote
Publilius Syrus
Power without a nation's confidence is nothing. View quote
Catherine II of Russia
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides they are not keeping anything back there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin. View quote
Henrik Ibsen
I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action. View quote
Wole Soyinka
Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. View quote
Epicurus
The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law. (V. S. Naipaul)
Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me. View quote
Lindsay Lohan
Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live. View quote
William Wordsworth
When writing comedy, you have to have the confidence to believe that there is only one type of relationship in the world, and we are all having it, that all men behave in the same way and so do all women. View quote
Steven Moffat
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson