Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything. . . it calls for confidence in oneself. . . And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.
By my estimation, dating was 1 percent confidence and 99 percent troubleshooting.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, youre in good shape.
Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.
My resolve, my anger, even my grief gave me confidence
The confidence that we Indians are suddenly infused with while doing something wrong is absolutely commendable.
Man is unable to accurately predict events which are but twenty-four hours distant; only the Divine Mind could have foretold the future, centuries before it came to be. Hence, we affirm with the utmost confidence, that the hundreds of fulfilled prophecies in the Bible attest and demonstrate the truth that the Scriptures are the inspired, infallible, inerrant Word of God.
The crowd gives us so much energy and we are able to really feed off of it. Hitting those shots and having the crowd go crazy helps boost our confidence. We love our fans.
The world is likely to view any temporary extension of the income tax cuts for the top two percent as a prelude to a long-term or permanent extension, and that would hurt economic recovery as well by undermining confidence that we're prepared to make a commitment today to bring down our future deficits.
The more confidence you have in yourself and the more you believe that you are destined to do what you are gonna do, it will happen.
self-possession is the ability to face without fear life in all its contradictions.
Security is mortal's chiefest enemy.
To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.
Repeat nothing - absolutely nothing - that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person.
once, when I was a young lady and on a night express. . . I was awakened by a man coming in from the corridor and taking hold of my leg. . . Quite as much to my own astonishment as his, I uttered the most appalling growl that ever came out of a tigress. He fled, poor man, without a word: and I lay there, trembling slightly, not at my escape but at my potentialities.
Our troops are the best in the world. I have absolute confidence in the ability of the troops who are here, or additional troops, to do their part.
Whatever you do without confidence will be done badly.
South Australia has transformed. There has been a range of changes to our economy over the past 10 years in which we have genuinely set ourselves up for the future. I think we have to start behaving like that's real and project a quiet confidence in the future of our state.
You have to pretend you're 100 percent sure. You have to take action; you can't hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure.