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

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

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.

It is always good to know which ideas cannot be checked directly, but it is not necessary to remove them all. It is not true that we can pursue science completely by using only those concepts which are directly subject to experiment.

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.

It’s cool to be recognised by your peers.

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.

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

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

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.

The last thing you want is to not be recognized for all of the hard work you put in.

You know, when Michael Jackson does the moonwalk, he’s showing off! When Prince or Hendrix do a guitar solo, it’s confidence! I would hate to be at a show and some nervous wreck is sweating up there and doesn’t feel like he deserves to be there.

I’m the proof – you can’t throw away tradition.

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.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

No one wants advice – only corroboration.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

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

Only the insecure strive for security.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

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.

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

I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can’t be all that bad.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

I don’t see that my majority opinions are going to be undone.

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.

I just don’t feel like I have to explain myself.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

I’m not trying to be sexy. It’s just my way of expressing myself when I move around.

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 think I am the greatest fighter in any class. I know I can hold two, maybe even three belts.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

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

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

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

The artist part of me always wants to be appreciated. I read every review. But I never wanted to seek validation by awards or anything controlled by politics.

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

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

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

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.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you’re wonderful, then you start believing you’re fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

Because of my wrestling background, nothing a director can throw at me on a set can faze me.

Having other comedians complimenting my work is the biggest accolade that I can get.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

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

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

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Yes, some people say to me you’re too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.

I never thought I’d land in pictures with a face like mine.

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.

I don’t believe it. Prove it to me and I still won’t believe it.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

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.

I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.