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My first impression when I made it through was 'Good, because I'm going to prove to you that I deserve to be here', because they told me that sometimes I lack confidence in my performance and sometimes I'm not as consistent as they'd like me to be.

Tags: Good, Sometimes  ✍ Author: Naima Adedapo

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

Tags: Creative, Men  ✍ Author: Ansel Adams

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Tags: Courage, Fear  ✍ Author: Maya Angelou

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

Tags: Honesty, Success  ✍ Author: Mary Kay Ash

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

Tags: Once, Respect  ✍ Author: Abraham Lincoln

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

Tags: Ignorance, Success  ✍ Author: Mark Twain

When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give you a tremendous feeling of confidence and well-being.

Tags: Feeling, Woman  ✍ Author: Lauren Bacall

I always think I know the way a novel will go. I write maps on oversized art pads like the kind I carried around in college when I was earnest about drawing. I need to have some idea of the shape of the novel, where its headed, so that I can proceed with confidence. But the truth is my characters start doing and saying things I don't expect.

Tags: Art, Truth  ✍ Author: Walter Bagehot

I am lucky, that is all. Lucky because there are a lot of people - producers, directors, people who buy tickets - who put confidence in me.

Tags: Lucky, Put  ✍ Author: Antonio Banderas

I love the confidence that makeup gives me.

Tags: Love, Makeup  ✍ Author: Tyra Banks

I think what is happening is I think first of all there is confidence in the U.K. economy. We're in a German rather than a Greek position in international financial markets, which is very positive and keeps our debt service costs down, and we're also beginning to see real evidence of rebalancing.

Tags: Positive, Real  ✍ Author: Vince Cable

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

Tags: Spirit, Worse  ✍ Author: John Calvin

Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains.

Tags: Nation, Nature  ✍ Author: Christian Camargo

Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.

Tags: Respect, Self  ✍ Author: Gina Carano

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

Tags: Life, Self  ✍ Author: Winston Churchill

Finishing overall champion at the World Series in both the individual and synchro events has given me great confidence and I'm pleased I've been diving with consistency.

Tags: Champion, Great  ✍ Author: Tom Daley

I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence.

Tags: Playing, Principal  ✍ Author: Charles Dance

I wasn't a perfect thing at 17. I didn't have confidence. I was hunched over and real embarrassed, and I didn't want to be in the limelight. But it changed over time.

Tags: Real, Time  ✍ Author: Lindsay Davenport

Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.

Tags: Everyone, Funny  ✍ Author: Evan Davis

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

Tags: Once, Place  ✍ Author: Rene Descartes

I've had confidence in myself all along. It was just a matter of getting the pieces back in place.

Tags: Matter, Place  ✍ Author: Dale Earnhardt

If you serve well, your volleys are going to be so much easier. It has got to do with confidence, obviously.

Tags: Easier, Serve  ✍ Author: Stefan Edberg

It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.

Tags: Forward, Good  ✍ Author: Arthur Eddington

The finished product is often of less importance than the skills and confidence gained through the process and the way in which the community is strengthened through people in it work and are brought together.

Tags: Together, Work  ✍ Author: Anthony Edwards

I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project.

Tags: Mean, Work  ✍ Author: Atom Egoyan
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Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

Tags: Honor, Mutual  ✍ Author: Dwight D. Eisenhower

The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence.

Tags: Business, Loss  ✍ Author: Mohamed El-Erian

Not hippie - my parents were not hippies - but they were very supportive and encouraging, and that does a lot for someone, and it gives them a lot of confidence.

Tags: Parents, Someone  ✍ Author: Jenna Elfman

I was in Beijing a month ago working on the smoke project in collaboration with an architect there, and I was asked very directly whether it was safe to breathe in the smoke. They did not have confidence in the museum not to use harmful smoke, and they certainly didn't have confidence that the city would protect them from harmful smoke.

Tags: Whether, Working  ✍ Author: Mircea Eliade

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Tags: Genius, Inspires  ✍ Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

Tags: Father, Give  ✍ Author: Eminem

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Tags: Friends, Help  ✍ Author: Nora Ephron

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

Tags: Friendship, Help  ✍ Author: Nora Ephron

I think that you do get a little extra jolt of confidence when you win an Emmy.

Tags: Emmy, Win  ✍ Author: Edie Falco

The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.

Tags: Death, God  ✍ Author: Louis Farrakhan

Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If there's stress or tension, they won't go out on a limb because they won't want to embarrass themselves if they don't feel completely comfortable.

Tags: Feeling, Stress  ✍ Author: Peter Farrelly

I am now the Wimbledon champion, and I think that gives me even more confidence coming to the Olympics. And maybe in some ways, it maybe takes some pressure off the Olympics, because I already did win at Wimbledon this year.

Tags: Off, Win  ✍ Author: Roger Federer

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

Tags: Getting, Morning  ✍ Author: Jules Feiffer

Celebrate your family's bleakest moments and how your relatives overcame them. In doing so, you will encounter darkness, but you'll give your children the confidence that they, too, shall overcome.

Tags: Children, Family  ✍ Author: Bruce Feiler

If you tell your own story to your children - that includes your positive moments and your negative moments, and how you overcame them - you give your children the skills and the confidence they need to feel like they can overcome some hardship that they've felt.

Tags: Children, Positive  ✍ Author: Bruce Feiler

I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

Tags: Father, Husband  ✍ Author: Julian Fellowes

I had so much fun developing and launching my first fragrance with Avon, so for my second fragrance, I really wanted to add a little more edge. Outspoken Intense is a provocative blend of sexy confidence and daring femininity that captures the thrill and excitement of being centre stage.

Tags: Fun, Sexy  ✍ Author: Rio Ferdinand

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

Tags: Life, Self  ✍ Author: Marcus Garvey

With confidence, you have won before you have started.

Tags: Started, Won  ✍ Author: Marcus Garvey

I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.

Tags: Difficult, Getting  ✍ Author: Gareth Gates

In the long term, improving investor confidence is a marathon, not a sprint.

Tags: Improving, Marathon  ✍ Author: John Gavin

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.

Tags: Difficult, May  ✍ Author: Baltasar Gracian

I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.

Tags: Control, Ego  ✍ Author: Taylor Hackford

Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,' - they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on.

Tags: Help, Women  ✍ Author: Zaha Hadid

I obviously want to give a healthy body image to my own daughter. I think having good examples, eating properly, that's all one can do - and just be really loving around her. I've tried to give her confidence in who she is. I think she's all right in the confidence department.

Tags: Give, Good  ✍ Author: Geri Halliwell

I like the idea of an open, international London that thrives on attracting hard-working, talented people but has the confidence to tell them they must play by the same rules as everyone else.

Tags: Else, Tell  ✍ Author: Philip Gilbert Hamerton

When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence.

Tags: Saying, Win  ✍ Author: Scott Hamilton

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Tags: Capacity  ✍ Author: William Hazlitt

Listen, if you don't talk big game, you never get anywhere. If you don't think big, you don't get big. Some people call it egotistical, some people call it high hopes, some people call it confidence. It's all in how you want to dissect it.

Tags: Big, Game  ✍ Author: Vanilla Ice

Before the season begins, I had even damaged some frames, but Ken did not hold it against me and kept all his confidence. He was the one who incontestably changed my life, because without his help, I do not know what I will have become.

Tags: Help, Life  ✍ Author: Jacky Ickx

Give me your trust and confidence, knowing that what I seek is for the good of Fiji, for the good of us all.

Tags: Good, Trust  ✍ Author: Josefa Iloilo

American actors are all muscular, tanned, white teeth and they have this indestructible confidence. We British are all... Dare I say it? Pessimistic.

Tags: American, White  ✍ Author: Max Irons

Winning Wimbledon was a great feeling and it is still a great feeling. It has given me so much confidence.

Tags: Feeling, Great  ✍ Author: Goran Ivanisevic

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.

Tags: Coaching, Sense  ✍ Author: Phil Jackson

For so many years, I felt so insecure, so inferior, and I still have those moments, but I have a newfound confidence since I got in shape and changed my diet.

Tags: Diet, Insecure  ✍ Author: Marc Jacobs

Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

Tags: Give, Year  ✍ Author: LeBron James

Our ad campaign with Pfizer is educational. Lipitor is the most widely prescribed drug in the country. For every prescription, there is a doctor writing it. It's a huge vote of confidence.

Tags: Country, Writing  ✍ Author: Robert Jarvik

Confidence is one of the sexiest things.

Tags: Sexiest  ✍ Author: Katherine Jenkins

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.

Tags: May, Media  ✍ Author: Lyndon B. Johnson

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

Tags: Angry, Him  ✍ Author: Samuel Johnson

If you're too embarrassed and want to hide behind your computer screen, that's what this is for. It's about building confidence and that's what U by Kotex does. Girls owning their bodies and health.

Tags: Behind, Health  ✍ Author: Khloe Kardashian

I feel like more than 80% of the world wouldn't get up in front of 40 million people and dance on national television, and if I have the confidence to do that then that's a step ahead in my life for me in terms of personal goals. I will gain a lot of confidence on all aspects right there.

Tags: Dance, Life  ✍ Author: Rob Kardashian

A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.

Tags: Good, Strength  ✍ Author: Bela Karolyi

I'm always astonished by the confidence my readers put in me.

Tags: Put, Readers  ✍ Author: Mary Karr

But I do think the survey group - and I think Charlie Duelfer is a great leader. I have the utmost confidence in Charles. I think you will get as full an answer as you can possibly get.

Tags: Great, Leader  ✍ Author: Alan Kay

I didn't have that much confidence. Maybe it looks that way. I'm glad it does.

Tags: Looks, Maybe  ✍ Author: Elia Kazan

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

Tags: Discipline, Training  ✍ Author: Robert Kiyosaki

I think it was always there and it was maybe a matter of bringing it out. It was harder than I thought it would be and I had to try harder. I had to regain my confidence, maybe the most important thing. I have learned a lot to relax. I know what I can do now, and I do it.

Tags: Thought, Try  ✍ Author: Guy Lafleur

I thought we were aggressive across the board defensively, and you could just see it grow. As the game went along, you could see the confidence grow. It showed in the fourth quarter.

Tags: Game, Thought  ✍ Author: Bill Laimbeer

On a personal note I want to gain more confidence and give back in any way I can.

Tags: Give, Personal  ✍ Author: Skylar Laine

Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.

Tags: Age, Born  ✍ Author: Hedy Lamarr

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Tags: Control, Leadership  ✍ Author: Tom Landry

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Tags: Game, Good  ✍ Author: Tom Landry

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.

Tags: God, Hope  ✍ Author: Robert E. Lee

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Tags: Contagious, Lack  ✍ Author: Vince Lombardi

If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum.

Tags: Stress, Teacher  ✍ Author: Ann-Marie MacDonald

Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world.

Tags: Arts, Starting  ✍ Author: Ed Macauley

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.

Tags: Hatred, Show  ✍ Author: Niccolo Machiavelli

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

Tags: Religious, Union  ✍ Author: James Madison

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

Tags: Money  ✍ Author: James Madison

The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.

Tags: Dreams, Work  ✍ Author: Ella Maillart

I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK.

Tags: Crush, Trying  ✍ Author: John Malkovich

I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.

Tags: Chase, Describe  ✍ Author: John Malkovich

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

Tags: Courage, Great  ✍ Author: Marilyn Manson

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

Tags: Another, Good  ✍ Author: Michel de Montaigne

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

Tags: God, Light  ✍ Author: Michel de Montaigne

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

Tags: Honesty, Integrity  ✍ Author: Michel de Montaigne

I grew up thinking anything was possible simply because of seeing women in power - like, you know, running the country. Which is a thought that continues to give Americans indigestion... Direction is about having a vision, but the practice of being a director is a con game - a confidence game.

Tags: Power, Women  ✍ Author: Mira Nair

Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.

Tags: Challenge, Heart  ✍ Author: Mira Nair

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.

Tags: Amazing, Fun  ✍ Author: Joe Namath

Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

Tags: Experience, Great  ✍ Author: Nas

The crowd gives us so much energy and we are able to really feed off of it. Hitting those shots and having the crowd go crazy helps boost our confidence. We love our fans.

Tags: Crazy, Love  ✍ Author: Steve Nash

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

Tags: Patience  ✍ Author: Ilie Nastase

You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence.

Tags: God, Put  ✍ Author: Gloria Naylor

I believe the public's confidence would be increased if the federal government took over the functions of airport security screening for all passengers.

Tags: Government, Public  ✍ Author: David Neeleman
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