Self-confidence depends on environment: one does not speak in the same tone in the drawing room than in the kitchen.

You can’t make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence.

The durable goods made it look like the market was ready for a jump, but confidence knocked it back down. We’re also in the worst of the summer doldrums. Then, Intel is also putting a...

You don’t have to knock anyone off their game to win yours. It doesn’t build you up to tear others down.

Cast yourself upon the waters. Trust in your ability to swim.

It gives you a boost of confidence to get that goal.

life is what u make it,if you want yours to be a cake just go ahead and bake it

I had very little confidence in myself as an actress.

Confidence is a pencil best sharpened with paper.

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...

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of...

I think the best way to have confidence is not to allow everyone else’s insecurities to be your own.

He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my thick bangs in need of a trim. They are still the...

Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.

I believe with all my heart that the cliches are true, that we are our own best friends and best company, and that if you’re not right for yourself, it’s impossible to be right for...

One-night stands were invented to free men from worrying about the size of their penis. And to free women from worrying about the size of their stretch marks.

Companies didn’t build a lot of inventory. Everyone based their build numbers on crappy consumer-confidence numbers. For certain high-demand products, companies are going to run out.

He played good. He played with confidence. I didn’t play good in the important moments. When I need my winner, the winner go out. And he played very tough.

While the U.S. economy is still transitioning, and will for some time, data that should be supporting confidence in the recovery have not worked to ease investor concerns, … We have to wonder if markets...

The settlement issue is important to address because without an effective process there could be an erosion of confidence in the product itself.

We are meeting one of the best teams in the world. It’s important for our confidence that we do well in this game and important for the England fans as well. If they see we...

Somehow I can’t believe that there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized...

To lead people or influence them, we must first align ourselves with them. By identifying with individuals or groups, we gain their confidence and can then lead them into a higher understanding or direct them...

If you think something’s too hard, it will be. If you think it’s just not possible or not possible for you, then you’ll probably be right. If you think it can’t be done then you’re...

If you are physically ready to play, it’s a matter of confidence. Your confidence goes down when you lose games, when shots are not going in.

Had this report showed another plunge in confidence, then I think it would have been a sure bet to expect another cut sometime in April,

There’s a confidence in earnings that is offsetting the other trends. If $62 oil, a downgrade of GM and bombings in London can’t derail the markets, what can?

Your core, lying deep within you, is what makes you what you are. Some call it the soul, the Higher Self, the true self, the being and so on. The name is unimportant once you...

A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.

Acquiring knowledge doesn’t bring power into your life, until you apply what you have learned.

How can you follow your heart, unless you know why you have allowed it to be empty for so long and didn’t have the courage to fix it?

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.”[Modernism’s Patriarch (Time Magazine, June 10, 1996)]

How you react doesn’t tell a person about your character, as much as it does your fear or God’s fire. Which is it?

If you’re a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that’s dangerously close to arrogance.

Each day begins a new journey of life, for if we awake, there is a reason.

Living your life is a task so difficult it has never been attempted before.

Don’t limit yourself to the skies when there is a whole galaxy out there.

That always makes me feel a lot better. I have more confidence in myself. I know I can throw strikes. Pretty much all the time, they’re going to make plays.

The market will look at the (consumer confidence) report with the expectation that confidence will still wobble with sky-high levels of gasoline prices and higher natural gas prices for heating homes in the winter, figuring...

Earnings warnings continue to dent confidence and the price of individual issues, … This is a market that’s nasty and negative. It’s difficult to divine if we’re reaching a bottom or not.

There are always runs and spurts, and once we got it going we got a lot of confidence. I like it when a team plays tight because it gives me an opportunity to get by...

The No. 1 ranking gives us confidence, but we need confidence from being battle tested. Miami is sure to do that.

Wikileaks didn’t help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.

When we feel that all eyes are upon on us, it is often difficultto take chances in expressing our individuality.

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral...

Tim Robbins had real confidence in college. He literally stole actors from the theater department at UCLA to be in his plays. The department heads got so mad at him.

Joey’s still our guy, but if it came down to where I needed to go in, I have full confidence that I’m a good enough player to get a win, … My role right now...

I believe that only scientists can understand the universe. It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side.

There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry.