Quotes about Confidence

She didn't realize what everyone knows: namely, that the expression one wears on one's face is far more important than the clothes one wears on one's back.

leadership usually gravitates to the man who can get up and say what he thinks.

I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness. All seems beautiful to me. Whoever denies me, it shall not trouble me; Whoever accepts me, he or she shall be blessed, and shall bless me.

Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. Henceforth, I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune. Henceforth, I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing.

I wear my hat as I please, indoors or out.

Dismiss whatever insults your own soul; And your very flesh shall be a great poem…

Here is what sings unrestricted faith.

I am larger, better than I thought, / I did not know I held so much goodness

I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood

Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness.

The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.

Reason, tradition, speculative conviction, dead orthodoxy, are a girdle of spider-webs. They give way at the first onset. Truth alone, as abiding in the mind in the form of divine knowledge, can give strength or confidence even in the ordinary conflicts of the Christian life, much more in any really "evil day.