This is how I define grace: you're on the main stage, and it looks like it has been rehearsed 100 times, everything goes so smoothly. That's where I get my confidence and success, from knowing that I have an edge because I know I'm prepared.
Alex Rodriguez

Confidence is everything in this business.
Reese Witherspoon

I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed.
Tim Robbins

Growing up, I started developing confidence in what I felt. My parents helped me to believe in myself. I wasn't the best looking guy, I wasn't the best athlete in the world, but they made me feel good about myself.
Herschel Walker

I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
Gabriela Sabatini

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

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

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.
William Pitt

Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
Vanessa Hudgens

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

I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.
Barbara Jordan

All anything takes, really, is confidence.
Rachel Ward

I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
Francois Rabelais

Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say and it's true, I do have a certain fondness for women that have dark hair.
Wentworth Miller

Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.
Wynton Marsalis

Confidence has a lot to do with interviewing - that, and timing.
Michael Parkinson

The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.
Georg Simmel

I didn't have that much confidence. Maybe it looks that way. I'm glad it does.
Elia Kazan

We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.
Lester B. Pearson

I don't have the confidence to be a personality.
Zoe Wanamaker