A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

I’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

There’s no reason why I can’t be a mogul. When I step into a room and I’m there to have a conversation, if it pertains to business, I want to be respected as a guy who knows what he’s talking about. And that, to me, holds more weight than anything else.

With Virgin, I’ve just loved creating things. And as a private company, I can get away with moving Virgin from records to airlines to train companies to space companies to whatever, without ever having to worry about analysts knocking the value of my stock.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

I don’t fear anybody… at all.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you’ve got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.

I’m confident with my ability.

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

I’ve never been an intellectual but I have this look.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

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.

I’m not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player’s ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence… I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.

You don’t carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Bob Houghton is a great coach and I am confident that the national team will do well under him.

I say that in the most humble way: I always knew that I could perform with the best of ‚em and I could deliver with the best of ‚em.

Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

I’m not a centerfold.

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

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

I think style is being so comfortable and confident in what you’re wearing. That’s what style is, ‚cause everybody’s got different style.

Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

I love women with attitude.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

I can hold my own when it comes to burping. I’ve got a good feeling that I could win a championship.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

I still think I am the greatest.

I have a self-defense mind. I’ve had it all my life.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

If you’re in a workplace you don’t like right now, be encouraged because God will use it for your good. Think about it this way: He wants you to be a light in the darkness – and He’s putting His confidence in you!

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called ‚walking.‘

I grew up around lots of men – my father, my brothers, my uncles – so I wasn’t intimidated by them.

God didn’t make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!