Confidence Quotes

One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give 'em that shot.
Jack Welch

Give, Somebody, Jobs

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.
Pierre Corneille

Best, Danger, Breeds

I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting.
Amanda Seyfried

Time, Poetry, End

I know I can be bolshy and really unpleasant, and it always happens if I lose confidence in the people I'm working with. If I've got no confidence in what I'm doing and they don't provide me with some assurance that we're doing the right thing then I bully people. I'm a horrible bully.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Working, Lose, Happens

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.
Jeanette Winterson

Truth, Stuff, Usual

People have no confidence that Washington, both sides of aisle, are coming together to try and do what's right for the economy.
Michael Bloomberg

Together, Try, Both

We should remember it wasn't so long ago that confidence in New York was in short supply.
Michael Bloomberg

Long, Remember, Short

Now, honestly, every movie set that I go on, I walk onto set with the confidence that there is nothing that they can throw at me that's gonna surprise me.
Emma Watson

Nothing, Walk, Movie

Confidence is one of the sexiest things in guys and girls.
Danica McKellar

One of Obama's most impressive attributes is his quiet confidence: Voters sense that he is comfortable in his own skin, a dedicated father and friend who won't waste time with the phony rituals of Washington.
Ron Fournier

Time, Father, Friend

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.
Gerald R. Ford

Best, End, Honesty

I didn't have much confidence in myself... never.
Maurice Sendak

I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK.
John Malkovich

Trying, Crush, Ok

Everybody wants to be somebody. The thing you have to do is give them confidence they can. You have to give a kid a dream.
George Foreman

Give, Dream, Everybody

What I worry about is that people are losing confidence, losing energy, losing enthusiasm, and there's a real opportunity to get them into work.
Boris Johnson

Work, Real, Energy

In college, I had a lot of friends who were writers and wanted to be writers and I felt intimidated by it. I just didn't know if I had any gift or voice and I had no confidence about it.
Rashida Jones

Friends, Wanted, College

I think it was always there and it was maybe a matter of bringing it out. It was harder than I thought it would be and I had to try harder. I had to regain my confidence, maybe the most important thing. I have learned a lot to relax. I know what I can do now, and I do it.
Guy Lafleur

Important, Thought, Try

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.
Wole Soyinka

Feeling, Through, Action

The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.
Arthur Erickson

Lack, Cultural, Typical

People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.
Benjamin Carson

Health, Money, Government

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.
Robert Collier

Faith, Truth, Knowing

But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity spreads like contagion. So people crave stability and order.
Tony Blair

Insecurity, Together, Fall

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

Wanted, Lots, Initiative

I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I'd bring things to class that I'd cooked at home.
Giada De Laurentiis

Good, Home, Learning

My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.
Barbara Corcoran

Amazing, Mother, Woman

The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.
Oscar de la Renta

Women, Kindness, Admire

When you lose your hair, it has an impact on confidence and your overall self-esteem whether it affects your career or your love life.
Bill Rancic

Life, Love, Career

The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people.
Paulo Freire

Trust, Leaders, Reflects

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.
Saul Bellow

Good, Someone, Feeling

Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause.
Arthur Henderson

Action, Ourselves, Despair

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