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

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

I knew that I was ‚interesting‘ at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.

When I’m out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I’m doing.

It’s very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

Tell the children the truth.

I’ve never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.

Indians felt despondent about Indian governance. Changing that atmosphere of gloom was a very challenging task, and I faced many difficulties in rectifying the situation and bringing back confidence and hope.

Every time I get in the McLaren I feel more comfortable, my confidence increases and I feel more at home with the team.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

A lot of people have said I’d have probably done better in my career if I hadn’t looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn’t be blamed because you want to look pretty.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.

The best fashion advice I’d say would be just to do what makes you comfortable and what makes you feel cute, and that’s how you’re gonna look your best ‚cause when you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.

I’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

A lot of people ask me, ‚How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?‘ It’s because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they’re gonna say no to you, at least they’re gonna be polite about it.

I’m extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that… it sounds, well, I don’t care how it sounds – to me, scoring comes easy. It’s not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can.

I think it’s an Irish thing. We don’t really care. We say it as we mean it, and you have to deal with it. The truth is the truth.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‚Man, I said too much.‘ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.