The fool don't think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

William Shakespeare

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

Abraham Lincoln

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Vince Lombardi

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.

Colin Powell

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Norman Vincent Peale

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Norman Vincent Peale

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

Mark Twain

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

Mark Twain

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Helen Keller

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Marie Curie

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

Lao Tzu

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

Lao Tzu

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

George Washington

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Aristotle

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Oswald Chambers

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

Oswald Chambers

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.

Dale Carnegie