Confidence Quotes

My day jobs... I knew I was bad at those, so I didn't really have the confidence to think that I could do comedy. But I knew I hated the day jobs.
Dave Attell

Bad, Comedy, Knew

But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to.
Sam Donaldson

Yourself, Else, Whatever

You're always going to survive the pain of loss. I can live with that confidence inside of me.
Hope Solo

Pain, Live, Loss

Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.
Armstrong Williams

Dreams, Sports, Self

Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years.
John Osborne

The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only.
Bob Riley

Government, Simple, Fight

When I became a Christian my confidence grew.
Cliff Richard

The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.
Gail Porter

Greatest, Give, Child

I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.
Bruce Willis

Famous, Before, After

It's been a dream of mine to run my own summer camp. I went to one as a kid, and I put on productions, and got lots of confidence.
Idina Menzel

Put, Dream, Run

I think there's a kind of confidence I often feel when I'm writing that I don't feel when I'm in the world, I guess. I feel a different kind of conviction about my choices. I feel much more insecure and awkward in the world, somehow, than I do when I'm writing.
Karen Russell

Writing, Different, Insecure

Confidence is everything in this business.
Reese Witherspoon

Business, Everything

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.
Warren Christopher

Real, Free, Sense

I wanted to make comics that get at feelings that connect to the deepest moments of our lives, reading Tolstoy, Flaubert, Flannery O'Connor, Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov and Carver to help gain the confidence to figure it out. I knew, however, the most doomed approach would be to simply create stories that felt 'literary.'
Chris Ware

Help, Feelings, Wanted

I always had a lot of confidence in my work and the unique flavor I like to bring to my characters, but you know I'm not a huge dreamer.
Nick Offerman

Work, Unique, Bring

I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project.
Atom Egoyan

Work, Mean, May

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.
Steven Moffat

Women, Men, Writing

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.
Angela Carter

Experience, Human, Clever

We started a movement... to build character, citizenship and confidence in young people.
Andrew Shue

Character, Young, Started

It's easy to say young people should believe in themselves, but the number one thing is recognizing that it's a journey, that you have to build confidence in yourself.
Andrew Shue

Yourself, Young, Easy

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.
Andrew Shue

Thinking, Country, Big

Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.
Gina Carano

Respect, Self, Control

I'm no diva but I can be annoying in a recording studio. Of course I try to be a diva in terms of confidence of performance and owning a song but I've never behaved like one in terms of the negative connotations of the word.
Nicole Scherzinger

Try, Negative, Song

Girl power is about loving yourself and having confidence and strength from within, so even if you're not wearing a sexy outfit, you feel sexy.
Nicole Scherzinger

Power, Strength, Yourself

Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.
Nicole Scherzinger

Yourself, Maturity, Accepting

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

Society, Censorship, Lack

It is obvious that putting the Arab-Israeli dispute on a resolution track would be an important element of overcoming the confidence problem in the region.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Important, Problem, Resolution

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised.
Robin Wright Penn

Mother, Sense, Whatever

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.
Robin Wright Penn

Faith, Hollywood, Street

I hope you will respond to the crisis of confidence that Watergate has created by opening up your administration and reaching out to people in a more magnanimous spirit.
Elliot Richardson

Hope, Crisis, Spirit

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