Selected confidence quotes

1. If you smell what The Rock is cooking!

2. The Rock is going to lay the smack down all over your candy ass!

3. Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

4. I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker.

5. I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof.

6. If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.

7. Try to be the best of what you are, even if what you are is no good.

8. The more sure you are, the more wrong you can be.

9. My first big acting performance was in the Marilyn Monroe biography piece, and it required frontal nudity. I talked to Mira Sorvino, my co-star, about how nervous I was because I didn't know how my mom would react. She said, 'Can I be completely honest with you? I've seen your mom in interviews, and she seems pretty screwed up. I don't think there's much you could do to shock a broad like that.' And from that moment on it was big nipples to the wind!

10. You know more than you think you do.

11. Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.

12. I will never be below the title.

13. I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.

14. You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get.

15. My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

16. Americans like a winner. If you lose, you're nothing. I'm going to win, though. It's good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We've met five times. He's won three times and we've drawn twice. But I'm a stronger player and a long match favors me.

17. I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.

18. I prepare myself well. I know what I can do before I go in. I'm always confident.

19. Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.

20. There's no one alive I can't beat.

21. I add status to any tournament I attend.

22. When you back off, it's easier to do mistakes. For me it's better to ski fast.

23. Oh, I've wept. Yeah, I've definitely wept just with the world, you know, how judgmental they are. You know what, I know I'm a good mom.

24. By adopting a certain physical posture, a resonant chord is struck in spirit.

25. I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?

26. I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody.

27. I have no doubt that as the Iraqi security forces get better, and they are getting better and they are holding territory and they are doing these things with minimal help, that we are going to be able to bring down the levels of our forces. And I have no doubt that that's going to happen in a reasonable time frame.

28. We're pretty! We are though, we're a good-looking band.

29. It is not about which artist is more skilled than which other artist. It is about creating what is in you to create. A lack of confidence in oneself is like a thief, It steals from the world that which might be worthy.

30. An individual's self-concept is the core of his personality. It affects every aspect of human behavior: the ability to learn, the capacity to grow and change. A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success in life.

31. To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

32. Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and developing.

33. Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

34. The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.

35. So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

36. My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.

37. I make the best pancakes you'll ever have! And I claim that title gladly. On Saturdays I make them for everybody.

38. I'm one helluva communicator.

39. Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.

40. I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president. For I know he lives and thinks and works to make sure that for all America and indeed, the growing body of the free world, the morning shall always come.

41. I never rush myself. See, they can't start the game without me.

42. It's funny what a few no-hitters do for a body.

43. I am not confident unless I am playing someone else.

44. I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.

45. When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

46. If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

47. There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

48. All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think is funny is funny. I don't have an answer but I just try to plough straight ahead.

49. Of science and logic he chatters, As fine and as fast as he can; Though I am no judge of such matters, I'm sure he's a talented man.

50. Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.

51. With luck we will be able to repulse the invaders before they land. At any rate, I can say that we will be able to destroy the major part of an invading force. That is, we will be able to inflict extremely heavy damage on the enemy.

52. I can say with confidence that we will be able to destroy the major part of an invading force.

53. Hulk Hogan, what'cha gonna do when The Rock runs wild on you? But you see Hogan, The Rock's gonna tell what's gonna happen. He's gonna tell you exactly what you're gonna do. You're gonna feel electricity like you've never felt before, electricity that's happened like never before. You will hear 70,000 strong chanting your name, chanting The Rock's name. Hulk Hogan, you will see the People's Elbow come crashing down on your chest. And Hogan, above all else, above all else, you will, you will, you will, you will, you will, good god almighty you will smell what The Rock is cooking!

54. I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal.

55. Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, 'Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.'

56. There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.

57. If I had more skill in what I'm attempting, I wouldn't need so much courage.

58. Most men do not feel in themselves the competence required for leading their group to victory, and therefore seek out a captain who appears to possess the courage and sagacity necessary for the achievement of supremacy. Even in religion this impulse appears. Nietzsche accused Christianity of inculcating a slave-morality, but ultimate triumph was always the goal. 'Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.'

59. I was thought to be stuck up. I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.

60. I am the best player in the world and I am here to prove it.

61. Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it.

62. 'I'm a risk taker and I've always been like that, especially when it comes to fashion.'

63. Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

64. The jabroni beating, pie eating, trail blazing, eye brow raising, the best in the present, future and past, and if ya'll don't like me you can kiss the people's ass!

65. Layeth the smacketh down.

66. The Rock is going to lay the smack down all over your candy ass!

67. The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn't know what all the yelling was about. I didn't realize that my body was moving. It's a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said, 'What'd I do? What'd I do?' And he said, 'Whatever it is, go back and do it again.'

68. When the pawn hits the conflicts he thinks like a king What he knows throws the blows when he goes to the fight And he'll win the whole thing 'fore he enters the ring There's no body to batter when your mind is your might So when you go solo you hold your own hand And remember that depth is the greatest of heights And if you know where you stand then you know where to land And if you fall it won't matter cuz you'll know that you're right.

69. Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.

70. 'I don't like the way my teeth protrude. I'm going to have them done, but I just haven't had the time. Apart from that... I'm perfect.'

71. The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.

72. 'I think I know it all, relatively speaking.'

73. 'A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.'

74. I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe- I believe what I believe is right.

75. It is always the secure who are humble.

76. No man ought to write at all, or even to speak at all, unless he thinks that he is in truth and the other man in error. In similar style, I hold that I am dogmatic and right, while Mr. Shaw is dogmatic and wrong.

77. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

78. Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?

79. The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.

80. 'I wouldn't say that I'm the greatest guitarist ever. I'd say probably that I'm the greatest guitarist sitting in this chair.'

81. Part of me suspects that I'm a loser and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

82. A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.

83. Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right. :-)

84. For most men (till by losing rendered sager) Will back their own opinions by a wager.

85. I don't know who invented High heels but all women owe him a lot.

86. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

87. I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

88. Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it.

89. Allah is the Greatest. I'm just the greatest boxer.

90. Be loud, be pretty and keep their black-hatin' asses in their chairs.

91. I am America. I am the part you won't recognize, but get used to me. Black, confident, cocky - my name, not yours. My religion, not yours. My goals, my own. Get used to me.

92. My face is so pretty, you don't see a scar, which proves I'm the king of the ring by far.

93. To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.

94. My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don't have the guts to sometimes say: I don't know....

95. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.

96. What I need is to believe in myself again- for my faith has been greatly undermined; it seems to me my role is over.

97. A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word just as good.

98. If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

99. When I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant adolescent, uncertain of himself, who, when he or she falls in love, suddenly walks with a certain inner assuredness and confidence, a mien which seems to say, 'You are looking at somebody now.... This inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.

100. Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.