Definition of Self-Confidence

Self-confidence

The quality or state of being self-confident; self-reliance.

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Self-Confidence Quotations

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
Dalai Lama

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
Edgar Allan Poe

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost

In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.
Lady Gaga

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
Jack Welch

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
Arthur Ashe

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
Giacomo Casanova

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
Thomas Carlyle

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Samuel Johnson

Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
Larry David

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
Orison Swett Marden

I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.
Loretta Young

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
William Jennings Bryan

The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Humor comes from self-confidence.
Rita Mae Brown

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
Andre Maurois

The three top issues have to be restoring jobs and private sector job growth to our country, getting the entitlement mess under control, and restoring back to our country a sense of self-confidence that Americans can achieve whatever we want to achieve.
Chris Christie

Brooke and I share some similarities. We're both passionate, fiercely loyal people. But she is far more outlandish than I'd ever be, particularly with her body and her sexuality. Brooke has made herself weak for men - she only gained self-confidence from their attention.
Sophia Bush

I tell students that even if they don't like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career, but that also builds self-confidence, no matter what they choose to do with their lives.
Danica McKellar

I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.
Paul Wellstone

Liberals do not appear to address potential solutions with anything like the far right's aura of God-given self-confidence.
Eric Alterman

I like the feeling that I'm giving young women self-confidence. It sounds so cliched, but it can be very moving.
Shirley Manson

I developed a great sense of self-confidence when I was very young.
Christie Hefner

When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school.
Lynn Johnston

That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country, and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together.
Jeff Miller

I had a lot of self-confidence.
Bowie Kuhn

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.
Trevor Nunn

As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.
Alan Thicke

Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents.
Conrad Burns

Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system.
Dirk Kempthorne

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