Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

Oprah Winfrey

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

Joe Paterno

The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.

Hasidic Saying

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

William Hazlitt

There is only one security, and when you've lost that security, you've lost everything you've got. And that is the security of confidence in yourself; to be, to create, to make any position you want to make for yourself. And when you lose that confidence, you've lost the only security you can have. ... Self-confidence is self-determinism. One's belief in one's ability to determine his own course.

L. Ron Hubbard

You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know to be arrogant about it.

Ruben Studdard

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

Baltasar Gracian

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

Arnold Palmer

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.

Channing Pollock

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

Joseph Wood Krutch

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

William Congreve

I've tried everything. I can say to you with confidence, I know a fair amount about LSD. I've never been a social user of any of these things, but my curiosity has carried me into a lot of interesting areas.

Dan Rather

Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.

Rufus Wainwright

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.

David Storey

Doctors still retain a high degree of public confidence because they are perceived as healers. Should lawyers not be healers? Healers, not warriors? Healers, not procurers? Healers, not hired guns?

Warren E. Burger

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Norman Vincent Peale

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Confidence is the foundation for all business relations. The degree of confidence a man has in others, and the degree of confidence others have in him, determines a man's standing in the commercial and industrial world.

William J. H. Boetcker

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence - and then success is sure.

Mark Twain

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

Arnold Bennett

It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.

Philip Adams

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.

Potter Stewart

What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.

Terry Bradshaw

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

Shakti Gawain

I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

Mark Twain

In the middle of a world that had always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence.

Rose F. Kennedy

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Anna Freud

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

Eleanor Roosevelt

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'

Andre Gide

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

George Washington

Humor comes from self-confidence. There's an aggressive element to wit.

Rita Mae Brown

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

Jack Welch

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

Rene Descartes

It is not so much our friend's help that helps us as the confidence of their help.

Epicurus

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Pierre Corneille

It is likely that the Street's confidence in McDonald's could be at an all-time low.

Mark Kalinowski

I stepped up. It gives me a lot of confidence knowing that I can be right there with the No. 2 one day.

Scoville Jenkins

We needed a big win to get our confidence up.

Katie Daly

It was important to get him back out there and give him a little confidence heading into a key weekend for us.

Brian O'connor

He understands that I have great confidence in him.

Lloyd Carr

To win our first (league) game is a tremendous boost of confidence.

Gary Miner

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

John Calvin

Every experience builds confidence and you learn from everything.

Debbie Mccormick

It was good to see the boys playing good cricket and it was really good for the confidence of the boys before we play Australia.

Sanath Jayasuriya

As long as my confidence stays up, we should do great. This is our year.

Joey Cabret

I had 100 percent confidence in my teammates. We just couldn't get the lucky bounce.

Scott Mertz

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

Arthur Ashe

Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.

Lindsay Lohan

It's a confidence booster when the team can win with the top player losing.

John Pettit

We knew we just needed one win to get our confidence back and we've just rolled from there.

Aaron Wilson

This vote is sort of a national vote of confidence for that leadership.

Juan Cole

It was just a good confidence builder for the girls.

Greg Adams

Sometimes, it could have been a better shot. Maybe I did lose a little confidence in my shot.

Jermareo Davidson

Confidence about the future performance of the company.

Chris Liddell

It gets their confidence up for the season.

Mary Alm

Joey did a good job of fighting. He did a good job of being aggressive. We have a lot of confidence in him and he came through for us today.

Jay Lapidus

It gave the team confidence behind her.

Katherine Mertz

When he has an off night like that, he has to have confidence that we can pick him up. That's what we did.

Flip Murray

The best way to get confidence is to play well and to make plays.

John Harbaugh

It was a team win. It was a great confidence-builder, going across the bridge and coming back champs.

Donna Nicholson

The good thing for us is that we got to go out and play some games. This will do wonders for our confidence.

Lee Linsenmeyer

We don't want to put all the pressure on him, but you know what? If we have to go to the air, he certainly has the poise and the confidence to do it.

Jason Robie

Absolutely. I couldn't have more confidence, and I fly the airplanes.

Kevin Finan

I am hopeful, but I think it's dicey. Based on Katrina, my confidence is low.

Matthew Park

Each race he's getting better. Each race he's building confidence.

Jesse Hunt

Keep in mind, consumer confidence is tied to your job.

Kathleen Camilli

That's what we're here for. We can't reach our dreams if we don't have confidence in ourselves to get the win.

Brodie Croyle

It was on from there, ... We had confidence coming in and we knew that we could play with this guys but that really jumpstarted things.

Andre Brown

We need to make sure folks have confidence in what we're doing and how we're doing it.

Kevin Hoffman

You're not going to get a 100 percent vote of confidence. It's also 11 months away, so we'll see. Some things can change.

Steve Timms

Teamwork, determination and confidence. That's what kept us in it.

Keenan Stanbridge

If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.

Ilie Nastase

Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.

Jules Feiffer

This was a good confidence-builder for us. It gets us one step closer to the playoffs.

Chad Anderson

This win gives us some confidence because they beat us before at their place.

Cliff Thompson

The win in flying and this win will give me a lot of a lot of confidence heading to the Olympics.

Roar Ljoekelsoey

We are playing great now. We are playing with the little bit of confidence that you need.

Ryan Getzlaf

I have a lot of confidence in the guy and we work very well together.

Rich Green

It's what you think and how you think-confidence. If you believe you can do it, you can. If you don't, it doesn't matter how good you are, you'll never do it.

Nort Thornton

They look like they have a lot more confidence now. They look like they're running around a lot more, having a lot more fun out there then they did against us.

Nick Greisen

We have enough confidence in him that we know we can win games with him. And he knows it too.

Tom Gilbert

We've been able to get a strong team on the field and confidence comes from that.

Ally Donaldson

Everybody wants to be somebody. The thing you have to do is give them confidence they can. You have to give a kid a dream.

George Foreman

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

Rosalynn Carter

We believe it now. We step out on the court and we expect to come out on top. It is a big thing having that confidence.

Doug Holloway

We've been able to get it done, and that's important. That's important to the confidence of this team, knowing we can always come back.

Pat Burrell

That's what you've got to do in the playoffs. I like it when the team does it like that, because it builds confidence.

Jake Peavy

My confidence has really been boosted back up to where it should be. In the beginning of the season, I was kind of lost.

Kameron Handy

BYU is a good team playing with a lot of confidence right now.

Dale Layer

Shooting has been our problem. We have to get a little confidence.

Kyle Rehrig

My confidence is gaining a lot each day.

Michael Sessions

John has really stepped up. We always knew he was capable, it's all about confidence.

Bruce Burnett

We finally have the confidence to comeback. We can all hit the ball.

Lauren Clark

We knew we were going to be a lot better than we were before. Those (wins) just brought our confidence up a lot.

Chaz Roots

Success breeds confidence.

Beryl Markham

We just needed to get that first win. We needed to build some confidence, and this was a confidence-booster.

Nancy Clouse

We're slowly building confidence, we know we have it in us, we just need to get it out.

Janie Mccarthy

Everybody won some matches, so it was good for them. It was a confidence booster.

Ty Zabel

I was a little uncertain before the race, but now the confidence is back.

Marlies Schild

It gives us a lot of confidence. Now the biggest challenge is to go out and prove it.

Jack Leggett

To be a good model, I'd need a lot more confidence, ... and more confidence to be more bare.

Jill Hennessy

It gave us a lot of confidence and showed us what we could and couldn't do.

Chip Dinkins

He has all my trust and confidence.

Stuart Sternberg

I was coming into Australia to get my confidence back and the rhythm of competition. I'm surprising myself a little bit. It's been very quick for me.

Justine Henin hardenne

The skepticism is both appropriate and welcome. We realize we have to rebuild confidence.

Thomas Fingar

It's big for our confidence, it's big for our heads, ... and hopefully it will get something started for us again.

Nick Rimando

We always have that confidence.

Carmelo Anthony

We have a lot of confidence anytime Steven is on the mound for us. He did a great job for us today.

Mike Padgett

Investor confidence is the bedrock of our markets.

Harvey Pitt

They got off to such a good start, it took away a little of our confidence.

James Forthman

The dividend payout is an indication of confidence in their cash flows.

Rob Clifford

I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will?

Johnny Unitas

I have every confidence that the answer I provided was circulated to the appropriate officials within our government.

Joseph Wilson

Hopefully we can wrestle well there and get some confidence.

Ty Zabel

They gave me the opportunity to come here. They had confidence in me, and I have confidence in myself that things are going to work out.

Luke Swan

Being on stage is about self esteem and self confidence.

Jake Miller

The key for those girls is confidence and playing without fear. They all did, even the ones who lost.

Amanda Johnson

Our confidence is growing because our list of supporters is growing.

Jessica Boulanger

We've got to get our confidence back up and win two games in the regional tournament.

Darren Mathews

EPA has full confidence in the ability of MRC to satisfactorily complete the work that they have started.

Kevin Rochlin

I have a lot of confidence in our delegation. The good thing this year is there is money.

Laurey Stryker

I finally got some confidence after making the first shot.

Marissa Nowakowski

He's riding a wave of confidence.

Matt Kuchar

He (Williams) played with a lot of confidence.

Barry Smith

That's a vote of confidence in the market to me.

Carl Wittnebert

There's immense trust and confidence in our ability to come back in any game.

Marc Denis

They gave him words of confidence and reassurance, but he's a rugged man.

Brian Humphrey

One thing I see he has more this year more than anything is confidence. He's gotten some big wins and that gives you confidence.

Jim Zalesky

We were a little worried. Right now we're playing with a lot of confidence.

Patrick Cinotte

That victory against Australia has given us the confidence that we can beat any side in the world.

Habibul Bashar

That crew is really young, and I think they are starting to get more confidence.

Sherman Hart

This is a very big win for us. I hope it's a big confidence booster.

Damon Bailey

We have full confidence in Gus that he's going to do a great job.

Sage Rosenfels

They have every reason to have all the confidence in the world in themselves. They came out against some of the best competition and held their own.

Adrian Boyarsky

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.

Aimee Mullins

Confidence is not very high at the moment.

Alan Shearer

It gave me confidence. I made some plays, and I competed.

Derrick Johnson

Right now, my confidence is higher than it's ever been.

Robert Vaden

A Europe that can do something like this is a Europe that can win, a Europe that can move into the 21st century with confidence.

Jacques Santer

With some confidence, we can say these two things must be connected.

Judith Curry

I have nothing but confidence in you. And very little of that.

Groucho Marx

We came out strong. We were all a little nervous, but there was some confidence. You have to be confident.

Ann Barney

That was great because Brandon had been struggling, ... That was good for his confidence.

James English

We drove the ball into the alleys, and that brings a lot of confidence.

Vance Arnold

This guy has the poise, the know-how, the confidence. You can't say enough good things about the kid.

Jack Mckeon

They'll ride with more confidence ... because they can ride with more speed.

Mike Battaglia

If there is contagion from a collapse in confidence in the U.S., that could impact Europe.

Michael Dicks

There's a confidence in earnings that is offsetting the other trends.

Tony Dwyer

He's been unbelievable. His confidence is what makes him.

Rip Hamilton

We get it. We realize we have got to rebuild confidence.

Thomas Fingar

We will not get carried away but will take a lot of confidence from this display.

John Coughlin

I just tried to work the corners. We're building our confidence.

Sam Wilson

The game opened up after that. It got the kids' confidence up and we buried our chances to put the game away.

Paul Dowe

Confidence can make an average player good and a good player great.

Mike Jewett

We need to get those two games and build some confidence.

Cecil Ratliff

It was important for us to get our confidence back.

Brandi Kimble

She was very strong and gave me confidence.

John Garang

They're playing with more confidence and their scores are coming down.

Steve Lee

The Angel's success gave us the confidence to be ambitious.

John Mcelroy

This builds (our confidence) a bit. We have to stay confident and keep getting better off of this.

Ben Pearce

I push for the best driver in the world. I have all the confidence in the world in Shauna.

Valerie Fleming

That should give parents more confidence when they take their children to the rink.

Keith Horton

They're both young and talented. We have a lot of confidence in them. They have done a great job so far.

Carolyn Eckhardt

I have every confidence in the world that he will humanize Lay.

Tony Canales

[The role] has brought out a lot of confidence in me.

Katie Leung

I have confidence in this kid.

Neil Gordon

It has given the guys a lot of confidence.

Jacques Kallis

Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves.

Marie Curie

The confidence will be there. We're just not where I want to be.

Danny Hale

There is improving confidence in the durability of this Nasdaq rally.

Andrew Bell

I think it boosts your confidence when you can ? sorry, guys ? beat your teammates.

Hannah Kearney

We have our confidence back.

Vinny Castilla

That does help our confidence and make us feel better about our performances.

Corey Hartung

This builds our confidence. We all did really well today.

Lisa Lunkenheimer

She plays with a lot of confidence. She looks like a senior out there.

Lynn Ust

I have every confidence that they will raise the money they need.

Michael Lynton

The kids have so much confidence right now. They really thought they were going to put it to them.

Jimmy Littleton

Their confidence in me helps my confidence in myself. It all pays off in the end.

Shayne Graham

It's great for our confidence, and that's what this team needs right now.

Jason Ward

It doesn't shake our confidence.

John Shehan

That's a big boost. We have a lot of confidence in our defense.

Matt Hixenbaugh

There are a lot of reasons for being here, but the chance to build up a bit of confidence is certainly one of them.

Paul Casey

It's a great confidence boost. It helps us as we go into the district playoffs.

Cory Neal

We have a lot of confidence in the organization and the people behind the organization.

Bob Chapman

This run has given us a lot of confidence. In hockey, confidence is huge.

Colton Fretter

This is very good win for our confidence. We had been struggling for the past two weeks.

Todd Inglehart

This is a big accomplishment for me. I had confidence in our team that we could beat them. They are a good team.

Andrew Davis

We have every confidence in this continent.

Pat Davies

We have our confidence now. We play to win now.

Tramicka James

A president who does not have the confidence of the faculty cannot change the university.

Jeff Cox

The confidence and the integrity and the independence of the bureau is under suspicion.

Harold Rogers

He's playing with so much confidence.

Bill Kramer

This just boosts our confidence. We have more heart this year.

Tony Dicicco

Confidence is my No. 1 thing. You have to have confidence to be a player.

Kyle Spain

We're going in (to the playoffs) with confidence. We are where we want to be. We have to give it all we got.

Kathlyn Mcclain

That's the guy we want with the ball in his hands at the end of the game. He's got a lot of confidence to make that shot.

Paul Brooks

He's so patient and poised with the puck. He's playing with a ton of confidence.

Ric Jackman