There are times we need to tell ourselves, "Good job!" when we know that is true.
Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.
Our sports [softball] is a game of failure already so my dad always says to parents who he is a pitching coach and he's been my pitching coach since I was 11 years old is if they can be the best kid on the team, let them experience that and then obviously the challenge has to come later on but you don't get that opportunity very often and confidence is such a huge part of this game and in life in general.
True confidence comes from realizing the view.
If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better.
Experience is everything. It means so much because it enabled me to learn the game even faster. Playing in the playoffs is the best basketball in the world, and if you can learn under that pressure, succeed under that pressure, it gives you more confidence the next year.
You can't really fake confidence. You know what I mean? Just be confident in who you are when you walk into a room, feel like you own it.
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.
Unbelievers enjoy the security of their unbelief; there is great confidence in ignorance.
I think just being on 'One Tree Hill' has given me a lot of confidence.
If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose sombre shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace.
It's always been impressive to me when someone can really do what they want onstage. The audience has confidence in the performer and the performer has confidence in the crowd.
Beloved youth, you will have your trials and temptations through which you must pass, but there are great moments of eternity which lie ahead. You have our love and our confidence. We pray that you will be prepared for the reins of leadership. We say to you, "Arise and shine forth" and be a light unto the world, a standard to others.
However, I must say that I am very happy to see that we have such a positive result for our first referendum in our history and that gives me more confidence in Taiwan's democracy.
Practice, practice, practice in speaking before an audience will tend to remove all fear of audiences, just as practice in swimming will lead to confidence and facility in the water. You must learn to speak by speaking.
I have a ridiculous amount of confidence of protecting myself, but along with that confidence comes the ability that you don't need to fight.
Self-confidence comes naturally when your inner life and your outer life are in harmony.
Here in Australia we do get impacted by global economic events. But we should have some confidence that our economy has got strong underlying fundamentals.
Security is something when you don't have any confidence and you want somebody to pay you when you don't do the job.