It’s not bragging if you can back it up.

I don’t have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.

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

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

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

They would not find me changed from him they knew – only more sure of all I thought was true.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

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.

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.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

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.

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.‘

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

Most of the stuff I try in a game, in the moment, I have supreme confidence I’m going to execute it.

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

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

I won’t be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn’t mean I want them to stop looking.

In my heart, I’m confident I could make a good president.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

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

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

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.

I always have confidence, whether I miss four in a row or make four in a row, that the next one’s going in. To a coach, sometimes that might not make sense.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.

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

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

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

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.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

I felt like, for so many years – and I still even feel it – as a girl, you can’t really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud.

I’m not the most attractive fella. I’m not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.

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.

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don’t have as many people who believe it.

I have to be seen to be believed.

There’s a reason that I have confidence out there, and it’s about how I prepare for games and for series and seasons and whatnot, so we’ve got to stick with that kind of thought process.

Unless someone wants to look funny, I’ll not recommend anyone to copy my bowling action. But on a serious note, with the confidence that I have got from the amount of runs I have been scoring, when I’m thrown the ball to bowl, I am pretty sure of what I have to do. I may not be the most attractive to watch while bowling, but I can be effective.

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.

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

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

A master performer like Bill Clinton never lost sight of the fact that as president he had to project confidence and power, but if he was speaking to a group of autoworkers he would adjust his accent and his words to fit the audience, and do the same for a group of executives.

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.

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

I thought one should have the attitude of ‚What do you care what other people think!‘

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.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that’s fine with me!

We are the first species capable of self-annihilation.

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

It undoubtedly feels nice when you are being appreciated and you get complimented by girls. Who doesn’t like that? Having said that, I don’t take it as any pressure.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

I still think I am the greatest.

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

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.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

I don’t worry. I don’t doubt. I’m daring. I’m a rebel.