All Quotes

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
‐‐ Dorothy Dix

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.
‐‐ Peter De Vries

Confession is something we will never outgrow, even if we become the saints God made us to be. Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa of Calcutta were revered even during their lifetime; but both made frequent use of the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
‐‐ Donald Wuerl

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

Confessions are not processed or analysed; they're told in a moment of desperation to a priest or to somebody interrogating you about a crime.
‐‐ Meghan Daum

'Confessions of a Video Vixen' is not a book about my encounters with celebrities, or anyone else for that matter. It is my life story, thus far, which just so happens to include some people you may have heard of.
‐‐ Karrine Steffans

Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Confidence and a good sense of humor can usually win a chick over.
‐‐ Danny McBride

Confidence and empowerment are cousins in my opinion. Empowerment comes from within and typically it's stemmed and fostered by self-assurance. To feel empowered is to feel free and that's when people do their best work. You can't fake confidence or empowerment.
‐‐ Amy Jo Martin

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.
‐‐ Jeanette Winterson

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.
‐‐ Haruki Murakami

Confidence-building is not something that can go on forever. If it goes on forever then it becomes counterproductive.
‐‐ Aung San Suu Kyi

Confidence comes from discipline and training.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.
‐‐ Roger Staubach

Confidence comes from knowing what you're doing. If you are prepared for something, you usually do it. If not, you usually fall flat on your face.
‐‐ Tom Landry

Confidence comes from within and as long as you are putting forth a respectable effort to take good care of yourself, you should feel confident about that path.
‐‐ Stacy Keibler

Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.
‐‐ Nicole Scherzinger

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.
‐‐ Roger Staubach

Confidence has a lot to do with interviewing - that, and timing.
‐‐ Michael Parkinson

Confidence has nothing to do with what you look like. If you obsess over that, you'll end up being disappointed in yourself all the time. Instead, high self-esteem comes from how you feel in any moment. So walk into a room acting like you're in charge, and spend your energy on making the people around you happy.
‐‐ Marian Seldes

Confidence. If you have it, you can make anything look good.
‐‐ Diane von Furstenberg

Confidence in a bloke would be arrogance in a woman. For years, I didn't give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.
‐‐ Alice Lowe

Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference.
‐‐ Tom Watson

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.
‐‐ Michel de Montaigne

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
‐‐ Michel de Montaigne

Confidence is a crucial building block in a successful career, and embracing it fully will take you places you never thought possible. With proper guidance and hard work, anyone can become more confident. Once you pass a certain point, you'll feel it from the inside.
‐‐ Travis Bradberry

Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.
‐‐ Jerry West

Confidence is a very fragile thing.
‐‐ Joe Montana

Confidence is contagious, but so is failure. Even the Yankees will lose if you persuade them that they will.
‐‐ Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
‐‐ Vince Lombardi

Confidence is everything in this business.
‐‐ Reese Witherspoon

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.
‐‐ Zig Ziglar

Confidence is highly overrated when it comes to creating literature. A writer who is overly confident will not engage in the struggle to get it exactly right on the page - but rather, will assume that she's getting it right without the struggle.
‐‐ Dani Shapiro

Confidence is instrumental to those climbing out of poverty.
‐‐ Ann Cotton

Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
‐‐ Vanessa Hudgens

Confidence is king in golf.
‐‐ Jason Dufner

Confidence is on one side of the line, and self-belief is on another. People all think those are mixed up.
‐‐ Tim Howard

Confidence is one of the sexiest things.
‐‐ Katherine Jenkins

Confidence is one of the sexiest things in guys and girls.
‐‐ Danica McKellar

Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
‐‐ Hedy Lamarr

Confidence is such a fragile and precious thing.
‐‐ David Duval

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Confidence is the key. When you're playing something new, find the part you know very well and play it really strong. That'll make you believe that you really do know it.
‐‐ Jason Moran

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
‐‐ Jack Nicklaus

Confidence is the number one thing I find attractive.
‐‐ Ronda Rousey

Confidence is very sexy. You could be not cute at all and have such confidence.
‐‐ Kirsten Dunst

Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.
‐‐ Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Confidence, knowing for certain that the person making the call has your safety foremost in their mind. And knowing that the job you are about to take on is the right thing to do, that it makes sense.
‐‐ Paul Gleason

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
‐‐ Franklin D. Roosevelt