Confidence Quotes

If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it.

I'm young as morningand fresh as dew.Everybody loves meand so do you.

He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend.

I have, as it were, constructed a lay-figure for the purposes of a demonstration which I desired to be as rapid and as impressive as possible.

Alas, my lord, your wisdom is consumed in confidence.

I have been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I have never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

... a surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence. Page 115

no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself.

My message to you all is of hope, courage, and confidence.

He had the confidence of a man who had never been wounded.

It isn'y explanations that carry us forward, it's our desire to go on.

In Buddhism we would say that you are lazy... Despising yourself, thinking you are no good, saying 'I can't do this.' This is the mind of weakness. You must work to overcome it .

Art is a house that tries to be haunted.

Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.

Happiness is an inside job

As long as other people's opinions matter more than your own, you're owned by them. You're not even free.

So many people are missing their way in life because they are afraid to sign the lease on their gift.

Zaphod marched quickly down the passageway, nervous as hell, but trying to hide it by striding purposefully.

...there was no guilt in his face, no doubt, nothing but the calm of an inviolate self-confidence.

Why yes, I can, ' said Midas Mulligan, when he was asked whether he could name a person more evil than the man with a heart closed to pity. 'The man who uses another's pity for him as a weapon.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life—and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

We may not be able to control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react.

Be courteous to all but intimate with few and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

All that philosophers have done is interpret the world in different ways. It is our job to change it.

I will not change just to court popularity.

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.

We must beware of needless innovations especially when guided by logic.

None are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing when we have made it the next wish is to change again.

We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility.

The death of dogma is the birth of reality.

I wish to say what I think and feel today with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself (I am large I contain multitudes).

I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be new views.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency and a virtue and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency and a vice.

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water and breeds reptiles of the mind.

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years and to take rank not as a prophet but as an unteachable brat well birched and none the wiser.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

Such is the state of life that none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing. When we have made it the next wish is to change again.

When one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create that fact.

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that ensures the successful outcome of our venture.

The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

This I know. This I believe with all my heart. If we want a free and peaceful world if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being- we can do it!

This I know. This I believe with all my heart. If we want a free and peaceful world if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it!

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite which I would like.

I keep my ideals because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.