quotations about confidence
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"
People who lack confidence do not understand other people. Seeing others through their own critical lens, they nervously perceive them as judgmental and rejecting. In order to offset their own shame and self-pity, many will pour blame and criticism onto others, and never look at their part in a problem.
SHEENAH HANKIN
Complete Confidence
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
Here is a man who is on the verge of a precipice. All unheeded he pushes forward. Scorning the advice of a friend, he proposed to judge for himself, and in overconfidence in himself he rushes on to ruin. Heedless of the earnest admonition of others, he plunges into the abyss.
HENRY F. KLETZING
Traits of Character Illustrated in Bible Light
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
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
Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
COCO CHANEL
Believing in Ourselves