Confidence Quotes - page 5

I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done. (Robert Downey Jr.)
The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections. View quote
Edmund Burke
I have always believed that fashion was not made only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence. View quote
Yves Saint-Laurent
Steady faith is stronger than destiny. Destiny is the result of causes, mostly accidental, and therefore loosely woven. Confidence and good hope will overcome it easily. View quote
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted; let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Towering is the confidence of twenty-one. View quote
Samuel Johnson
It was not hard to persuade people that the market was sound; as always in such times they asked only that the disturbing voices of doubt be muted and that there be tolerably frequent expressions of confidence. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
How can you have confidence in a woman who will not risk entrusting her whole life to you, day and night? View quote
Cesare Pavese
I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text. View quote
Maggie Gyllenhaal
It is so important for us to have faith, trust, confidence in one another. It is the only way we can communicate. Without faith there is no communication, there is no love, or if there was a little love it will die without hope, trust, and confidence. Even if it doesn't die right away, it will be so ill, so weak, and so tired that communication will be miserable as well. View quote
Catherine Doherty
Strange is the vigour in a brave man's soul. The strength of his spirit and his irresistible power, the greatness of his heart and the height of his condition, his mighty confidence and contempt of danger, his true security and repose in himself, his liberty to dare and do what he pleaseth, his alacrity in the midst of fears, his invincible temper, are advantages which make him master of fortune. (Thomas Traherne)
A party should be founded not merely on numbers, but on moral principles, without which it can neither accomplish useful work nor inspire confidence. View quote
Eleftherios Venizelos
That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other. View quote
Isaac Barrow
As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person. View quote
Kim Novak
Having no human companion I felt a spirit of comradeship for the objects of nature around me. In my childish way I communed with these as with my own soul; they became the sharers of my confidence. View quote
Jan Smuts
Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together, both helping one another in the pursuit of truth. It is a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in a theory until it has been confirmed by observation. I hope I shall not shock the experimental physicists too much if I add that it is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they have been confirmed by theory. View quote
Arthur Eddington
However, I must say that I am very happy to see that we have such a positive result for our first referendum in our history and that gives me more confidence in Taiwan's democracy. View quote
Chen Shui-bian
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence; true friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. View quote
George Washington
The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are - as women and as mothers. View quote
Arianna Huffington
The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little. View quote
Daniel Kahneman
As a mathematician, von Neumann was quick, brilliant, efficient, and enormously broad in scientific interests beyond mathematics itself. He knew his technical abilities; his virtuosity in following complicated reasoning and his insights were supreme; yet he lacked absolute self confidence. (Stanislaw Ulam)
It is unjust and absurd of those advancing in years, to expect of the young that confidence should come all and only on their side: the human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return. View quote
Maria Edgeworth
He was decisive and wholehearted in everything he did, so intent non the task at hand that he never looked over his shoulder, even if his cloak got caught in a thorny bush. When he did turn to speak to somebody, he used to swing his entire body and dress him full face. When he shook hands, he was never the first to withdraw his own. He inspired such confidence that he was known as al-Amin, the Reliable One. View quote
Karen Armstrong
To be cautious, one should not take high confidence as any absolute guarantee of anything. View quote
Elizabeth Loftus
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. View quote
Marcus Garvey