confidence quotes

Eleanor Roosevelt: 

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

Erik H. Erikson: 

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

Henry Ford: 

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. also attributed to Mary Kay Ash

Marian Wright Edelman: 

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

Robert Coles: 

Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?

Sidonie Gruenberg: 

To value his own good opinion, a child has to feel that he is a worthwhile person. He has to have confidence in himself as an individual.

Virginia Woolf: 

Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to