No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

I wish I could show you…the astonishing light of your own being.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win.

Because I have confidence in the power of truth and in the spirit, I believe in the future of mankind. Affirmation of the world and of life contains within itself an optimistic willing and hoping which can never be lost. It is, therefore, never afraid to face the dismal reality and to see it as it really is.

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

The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics – and our external ones too – the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are.

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.

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

I think that our politics everywhere are gonna be going through this bumpy phase. But as long as we stay true to our Democratic principles, as long as elections have integrity, as long as we respect freedom of speech, freedom of religion, as long as there are checks and balances in our governments so that the people have the ability to not just make judgments about how well government is serving them but also change governments if they’re not serving them well, then I have confidence that over the long term, progress will continue.

For God’s sakes, quit worrying about your next job. Just do the best you can at the job you have now, and the offers will come. And when they do, if you have confidence in yourself you don’t have to feel that you can’t turn it down if it isn’t quite right for you because you fear you’ll never get another offer. You will. Wait for the right opportunity, and turn down all the rest. It will make all the difference.

… family and friends aren’t always ready to make the journey when you are, and you just have to keep plowing along whether they have confidence in you or not. That can be very lonely.

It is my view that if society was doing the right thing with respect to you, [and there were] programs targeted at helping people rise into the middle class and have a good income and be able to save and send their kids to school, and you’ve got a vigorous enforcement of anti-discrimination laws, then I have confidence in the black community’s capabilities to then move forward.

I do have confidence that we’re gonna be able to get it right. But it’s not gonna be overnight. And there’s no silver bullets to this. The fact of the matter is, is that we are suffering from a massive hangover from a binge of risk taking.

I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.

Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.

Establish a system you have confidence in and rely on it when you get into tough situations.

This is our culture, and I don’t care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn’t have confidence in himself or else he doesn’t believe in what he’s doing.

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.

Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.

Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.

Public relations, in this country, is the art of adapting big business to a democracy so that the people have confidence that they are being well served and at the same time the business has freedom to serve them well.

I love to have confidence, but that confidence doesn’t come from myself. It comes from God, and that’s what I wanted America to see.

We have a lot of things to work through. But the American people need to have confidence that we`re going to change things, but we`re going to move us in to a direction of more decisions and more choices, and not a diminishing of responsibility and care that people are really relied upon.

Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.

I think we go well together. I like being with you because I’m never bored. Even when we’re not talking, even when we’re not touching, even when we’re not in the same room, I’m not bored. I’m never bored. I think it’s because I have confidence in you, in your thoughts. Do you understand? I love everything I see in you, and everything I don’t see. I know your faults, but as it turns out, I feel as though your faults go well with my qualities. We’re not afraid of the same things. Even our inner demons go well together! You, you’re worth more than you show.

Our efforts will only be effective if ordinary citizens in other countries have confidence that the United States respects their privacy too. And the leaders of our close friends and allies deserve to know that if I want to learn what they think about an issue, I will pick up the phone and call them, rather than turning to surveillance.

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

The bottom line in my view is that America’s mothers and fathers deserve to have confidence in law enforcement’s ability to ensure that their children are being raised in the safest possible environment.

Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside.

When you go out on the court whether it be for the championship or just a scrimmage, have confidence that your abilities and what you’ve learned in your drills are better than your opponent’s. This does not mean you should disregard your opponent. Before taking the court for any game, you should do a lot of thinking about what you have to do to beat your opponent and what he must or can do to beat you.

I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.