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 very good at what I do, and I don’t turn my hand to something unless I’m very good at it, frankly.

One of life’s terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they’re doing.

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

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

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

When I was born, that was the music my mother was listening to. Michael Jackson is a third parent to me.

I don’t think anybody in America ought to be scared.

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

It’s always great to perform at home in the good ol‘ U.S.A.

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.

My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you’ll see you had to be sharp onstage.

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

When I’m writing, I’m thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don’t translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you.

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

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.

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.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

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

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

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

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.

I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I’m confidently cocky, you might say.

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.

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.

I always say, you gotta play a dive bar like you play an arena, and you play an arena like you play a dive bar.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.

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

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

Boldness be my friend.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

My fat never made me less money.

Nothing feels better than going onstage and everybody is singing every word – and actually wanting to see you.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

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

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.

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.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

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

My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I’m much more expressive off stage.

I don’t kiss nobody’s butt.

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

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That’s the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.

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

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.

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

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

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’m confident with my ability.

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

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.

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

I grew up listening to the Police, I grew up performing in bars, singing Police songs.

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

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

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.

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!