Quotes on Confidence

If we can manage to refrain from harming others in our everyday actions and words, we can start to give more serious attention to actively doing good, and this can be a source of great joy and inner confidence. We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need.

Developing concern for others, thinking of them as part of us, brings self-confidence , reduces our sense of suspicion and mistrust, and enables us to develop a calm mind.

We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

Confidence is believing in your own ability, knowing what you have to do to win. My confidence was developed through preparation.

Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

Education is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society. Compassion and peace of mind bring a sense of confidence that reduce stress and anxiety, whereas anger and hatred come from frustration and undermine our sense of trust. Because of ignorance, many of our problems are our own creation. Education, however, is the instrument that increases our ability to employ our own intelligence.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

If our lives are truly plans of God, someone had better call a meeting soon to remind us, once more, what great miracles we really are.

Honesty, disinterestedness and good nature are indispensable to procure the esteem and confidence of those with whom we live, and on whose esteem our happiness depends.

There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom

Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that makes it.

The first beneficiary of compassion is always oneself. When compassion, or warmheartedness, arises in us and our focus shifts away from our own narrow self-interest, it is as if we open an inner door. It reduces fear, boosts confidence and brings us inner strength. By reducing distrust, it opens us to others and brings us a sense of connection to others, and sense of purpose and meaning in life.

We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.

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.