Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.
When you have confidence, you do feel like you’re much younger.
Am I cocky or conceited? I’m definitely cocky. But at the root is confidence and humility.
I fell in love with music because it gave me an escape, it gave me strength, and it gave me confidence.
I did a film which was considered an independent movie with Dustin Hoffman and Andy Garcia called Confidence, and that’s the type of film I was willing to take a chance on that because of the caliber of people involved with the film.
Power without a nation’s confidence is nothing.
Well, it seems to me a scientist has need for both vision and confidence.
Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition.
There is a fine line between faith and confidence. Confidence has a self-reliance. Faith is really about giving in.
I think a lot of style is about attitude – posture, deportment, gaze and confidence. I saw that in my mum. She was a cleaner when we were growing up, but she had this stylish presence I admired.
I think sales is the most important skill set young people can learn. Understanding how to pitch an idea with confidence and secure a client are valuable skills that apply to every single aspect of business.
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.
I certainly don’t feel like I have the perfect body type… It’s through your own eyes. And for every female, you’re going to see flaws in that; you’re going to see flaws regardless. So for me, it’s just important to have that confidence and self-esteem no matter what body type you have.
I think Ma Durga will eradicate all that is there and help us rebuild our confidence and our society as a whole. She will take away the pain caused by Covid 19 and will stop the disease from taking any more lives.
Confidence is very sexy. You could be not cute at all and have such confidence.
Making promises and then saddling yourself with a political system and a political union that means that you cannot deliver those promises, I fear, doesn’t contribute to an atmosphere of trust and confidence in politics.
I wouldn’t describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that – the ghosts you chase you never catch.
Find the confidence in whatever way you can to just keep moving onto the next page. The only way you will finish projects and get better is to keep moving forward.
I’ve been training super hard at the Lopez Taekwondo Academy in Houston, which belongs to my brother Jean. For me, I think confidence is the biggest thing; it’s all mental. I train with the best of the best, including my brother Steven, a five-time world champion who won Olympic gold medals.
Each day, you get an ounce more confidence. When we’re playing like we are, there’s no reason not to.
I tend to hide behind my status of being a diva; it’s easy for me to embrace that part of me and seek confidence by being a bit outrageous at times.
I really like guys who have confidence, but not the cocky over-the-top confidence.
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.
When you look good, you feel good. Confidence with what you’re wearing is very important. If you feel good, you will always perform your best without worrying about anything.
I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.
My attitude is good because I’m a fierce competitor and I have all the confidence in the world that I can beat everybody else. That’s my attitude.
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
The team should have implicit confidence in the captain’s decisions.
When I step forward on the floor, I have the confidence that I’m the best player playing that night and that I am the most prepared at what I need to be doing.
Make or miss, you still have to shoot the same shot with confidence.
I have a large watch collection, and classic watches are especially important to me. I had a silver Rolex, and I actually gave it to my little brother. He wears it every day. He’s an actor, so whenever he goes to an audition, he can look down, see it, and it gives him confidence. It was a great thing to pass on.
My day jobs… I knew I was bad at those, so I didn’t really have the confidence to think that I could do comedy. But I knew I hated the day jobs.
If you have money and you have fame, but you don’t have any confidence in your blackness, then it’s all for nothing.
Every girl/woman in the world has flaws. Instead of focusing on your flaws when you look in a mirror, focus on the parts of you that you love; try to do this every morning. You will ooze confidence all day long.
I really always felt that I was going to be an actress. I had a lot of confidence in the fact that I would do well from a very early age. I didn’t know how tough the business is.
Some of the sexiest things to me in a man are confidence, authenticity, honesty, kindness and masculinity.
Positivity, confidence, and persistence are key in life, so never give up on yourself.
I don’t really care about clothes, but it’s about wearing something that gives you social confidence.
I believe in my kids 100 percent. When you have confidence in them, they have confidence in themselves.
If you undermine people’s confidence, they turn up at the contest trying to get second place.
Sometimes, if you fake confidence long enough, you’re going to be confident.
Strengthening our identity is one way of reinforcing people’s confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being.
Timing is everything in this league, and I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. But I never lost my confidence. Atlanta was changing coaches and systems. I knew they’d make personnel changes.
No matter how long you play this game, you struggle and your confidence will go here and there at times.
Being in Loyola College exposed me to other options and gave me confidence, apart from the freedom to bunk classes. I became a merchandiser and then a garment manufacturer, and interacting with foreign buyers and manufacturing foreign brands in India gave me a high.
I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don’t blame them.
What ‘Short Term 12’ did was it gave me the confidence to explore my intuition more. The healing process that came for me for making that movie and then sharing it with people – I was able to see, first hand, that movies can have a healing power and they can teach us things.
The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.
Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
It is obvious that putting the Arab-Israeli dispute on a resolution track would be an important element of overcoming the confidence problem in the region.
I don’t doubt for a second that Neil Armstrong’s spirit is still with us: that unique blend of optimism, humility and the utter confidence that when the world needs someone to do the really big stuff, you need an American.
Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.
I’m playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence.
For me, so far, confidence has been a journey, not a destination.
There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.
My films do have a big following among young girls, and I want to instill confidence in them, a sense of self-appreciation – to make them feel they can be spirited and say what they feel.
Growing up, I started developing confidence in what I felt. My parents helped me to believe in myself. I wasn’t the best looking guy, I wasn’t the best athlete in the world, but they made me feel good about myself.
Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
Maybe it has something to do with turning 30. I don’t feel as shy or nervous or self-conscious. I have more confidence that I can handle what life brings me. I don’t feel scared to have an idea and express it.
On stage, it’s very naked. There’s a reason you shake your knees. You’re very vulnerable, cos it’s just you, your body is the instrument. But I always had confidence in my voice, if I had the right song, the right words to sing.
