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.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

Success is the child of audacity.

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

Self-respect knows no considerations.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

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

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

Only the insecure strive for security.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus‘ love.

It’s important for me to let my fans know I really don’t care. I’m confident.

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.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It’s always sexy, and it’s always with the same result: making women look fantastic.

I didn’t come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things I say. Everyone out here is so phony, it’s sickening.

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

I have seen how leaders rule by intimidation. Leaders who demonize and dehumanize entire groups of people often do so because they have nothing else to offer. And I have seen how places that stifle the voices and dismiss the potential of their citizens are diminished: how they are less vital, less hopeful, less free.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

I wasn’t a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

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 only thing I know is I ain’t changing my brand. I know what I believe. I’m confident in what I know. And I’m gonna say it. And if folks like it, wonderful. If they don’t like it, I understand.

Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.

I don’t want people to think of me as sexy.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can’t lose.

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

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.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

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

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

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.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

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.

I’m much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it’s certainly not easy.

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

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

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

I’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?

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

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.