quotations about confidence
Self-confidence is like the cha-cha. It's one step forward, one step back, and three steps in the same place.
ALICE
Cosmopolitan, 1985
As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Characteristics
He who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.
PIERRE-CLAUDE-VICTOR BOISTE
Oeuvres
Trust in thine own untried capacity
As thou wouldst trust in God himself. Thy soul
Is but an emanation from the whole.
Thou dost not dream what forces lie in thee,
Vast and unfathomed as the grandest sea.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
"Achievement"
Confidence is conqueror of men; victorious both over them and in them;
The iron will of one stout heart shall make a thousand quail;
A feeble dwarf, dauntlessly resolved, will turn the tide of battle,
And rally to a nobler strife the giants that had fled.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER
Proverbial Philosophy of Faith
The person who puts on a front of false confidence is like the frightened cat who arches her back and bushes her tail in an effort to appear ferocious.
EDITOR
Industrial Arts & Vocational Education, Volume 31
Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
COCO CHANEL
Believing in Ourselves