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Quotes about Confidence


Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.

William Pitt, Earl of Chatham

Towering in the confidence of twenty-one.

Samuel Johnson

With filial confidence inspired,
Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye,
And smiling say, My Father made them all!

William Cowper

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!

William Wordsworth

However gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.

Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

Abraham Lincoln

If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true.

Diogenes Laërtius

All you need is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Robert Frost

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Robert Frost

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Robert Frost

Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Mark Twain

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Mark Twain

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao Tzu

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

George Herbert

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

Edward Linnaeus

Self-confidence is the result of a successfully survived risk.

Jack Gibb

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

Arthur Ashe

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

Mahatma Gandhi

I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk- seeking profile that you need.

Laurel Cutler

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.

Arthur Ashe

The most powerful assertiveness technique is to repeat your command with the confidence that the child will soon yield.

John Gray PhD

I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.

James Robinson

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.

Potter Stewart

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