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Confidence Quotes


"I stand out not because I am six feet tall,But because I feel six feet tall."


"A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep."


"I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators."


"You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference."


"Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up."


"Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't."


"For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum."


"The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions."


"Well, I am a Republican, and I would run as a Republican. And I have a lot of confidence in the Republican Party. I don't have a lot of confidence in the president."


"We cannot properly defend and protect ourselves without confidence. Confidence is vital, we must learn that confidence in life matters a lot."


"I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch."


"I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan."


"Thanks to President Bush and Republican principles, businesses now have more confidence to hire workers."


"We need to restore the confidence in the country, first of all."


"Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter."



"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too."



"He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views."


"Critics are loud, but success is louder."



"What I learned about stammering was that, when as a young child you lose the confidence of anyone who wants to listen to you, you lose confidence in your voice and the right to speech. And a lot of the therapy was saying, 'You have a right to be heard.'"



"A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity."


"Be confident. Don't seek permission to be yourself."



"And so we try to address those concerns in every way possible, recognizing, again, in the final analysis, everybody on that flight wants to be assured with the highest level of confidence that everybody else on that flight has been properly screened, and including me and you and everybody."


"Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."


"I haven't seen a player in this game, as long as I've been in it, that can't be pitched to... Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out."


"We found on our journey, as well as in the place where we stopped, that they treated us with as much confidence and good-will as if they had known us all their lives."


"The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you."


"Don't back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for yourself builds self confidence and self esteem."


"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."


"Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear."


"It definitely helps to have been through the arm training flow before and to have used the arm on orbit, and it also gives me the confidence to know that our training facilities are really good, that when you get up there, you feel like you've been there."


"Courage is your natural setting. You do not need to become courageous, but rather peel back the layers of self-protective, limiting beliefs that keep you small."


"If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself."


"Right now I have more confidence in myself. I grew up."


"I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself."


"I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy."



"I'm sure that they will continue to look for ways to try and undermine my support, but I have every confidence that in doing this job for South Dakota, I will continue to build on my support and be able to succeed once again in November."


"I think they do have to get it right in Sierra Leone. There has to be something in there now to establish confidence, to stabilize the situation, and then to move to some sort of political negotiations."


"You start to think bigger when you see how quickly a TV show can catch on in a whole country. That confidence, and thinking big, opened a lot of doors."


"I was feeling a lot of confidence, so I wanted to take advantage of that and keep playing."


"No one can duplicate the confidence that RSA offers after 20 years of cryptanalytic review."


"I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song."


"Swag is not about what you want people to think about you, its already knowing what they think about you."


"I am unique...I play by a different set of rules I am not intimidated by anything."


"Not to this extent but from day one I had an awful lot of confidence when I got started."



"Confidence, knowing for certain that the person making the call has your safety foremost in their mind. And knowing that the job you are about to take on is the right thing to do, that it makes sense."


"When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence."


"I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence."



"To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility."



"The monitors indicated that it was a credible election, I think, in an overall sense, it apparently is a free and fair election, so it's a real milestone and one of the things we can take some little confidence in."
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