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. Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence. Legitimate self-confidence is a winner. The true test of self-confidence is the courage to be open-to welcome change and new ideas regardless of their source. Self-confident people aren't afraid to have their views challenged. They relish the intellectual combat that enriches ideas.

42. He who has the truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

43. 'The shower is my time to open up my operatic chops, because of the enormous echo. You sound five times as big in the shower, so I break into some 'Nessun Dorma' [from Puccini's Turandot] or Pearl Jam. You've got to go big when you're in the shower. There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.'

44. Does my sassiness surprise you?

45. Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I am with you kid. Let's go.'

46. I knew I had him in the first round. Almighty God was with me. I want everyone to bear witness, I am the greatest! I'm the greatest thing that ever lived. I don't have a mark on my face, and I upset Sonny Liston, and I just turned twenty-two years old. I must be the greatest. I showed the world. I talk to God everyday. I shook up the world, I'm the king of the world. You must listen to me. I am the greatest! I can't be beat!

47. Last night I had a dream, When I got to Africa, I had one hell of a rumble. I had to beat Tarzan's behind first, For claiming to be King of the Jungle. For this fight, I've wrestled with alligators, I've tustled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning And put thunder in jail. You know I'm bad. I have murdered a rock, I've injured a stone, and hospitalized a brick. I'm so bad, I make medicine sick. I'm so fast, man, I can run through a hurricane and don't get wet. When George Foreman meets me, He'll pay his debt. I can drown the drink of water, and kill a dead tree. Wait till you see Muhammad Ali.

48. It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself.

49. Wine makes a man more pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

50. There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore looking like an idiot.

51. I wish you were my sister. I'd teach you to have some confidence in yourself. The different people are not like other people, but being different is nothing to be ashamed of. Because other people are not such wonderful people. They're one hundred times one thousand. You're one times one! They walk all over the earth. You just stay here. They're common as - weeds, but - you - well, you're - Blue Roses!

52. Can't nobody touch me right now. Maybe next month all of this will be over, but this month I'm takin' every moving target out.

53. Somehow I can't believe there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C's. They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy - and the greatest of these is Confidence. When you believe a thing, believe it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

54. When we consider a project, we really study it - not just the surface idea, but everything about it. And when we go into that new project, we believe in it all the way. We have confidence in our ability to do it right. And we work hard to do the best possible job.

55. We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We are but critics, or but half create, Timid, entangled, empty and abashed, Lacking the countenance of our friends.

56. His very foot has music in't As he comes up the stairs.

57. Style is whatever you want to do, if you can do it with confidence

58. I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round

59. I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent.

60. I know what you're thinkin' punk, you're thinkin': 'Did he fire six shots, or only five?' Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?

61. If you believe you can,you probably can.If you believe you won't,you most assuredly won't.Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

62. A Frenchman is self-assured because he regards himself personally, both in mind and body, as irresistibly attractive to men and women. An Englishman is self-assured, as being a citizen of the best-organized state in the world, and therefore as an Englishman always knows what he should do and knows that all he does as an Englishman is undoubtedly correct. An Italian is self-assured because he is excitable and easily forgets himself and other people. A Russian is self-assured just because he knows nothing and does not want to know anything, since he does not believe that anything can be known. The German's self-assurance is worst of all, stronger and more repulsive than any other, because he imagines that he knows the truth--science--which he himself has invented but which is for him the absolute truth.

63. I let them think what they want. If they just care enough to bother with what I do then, I'm already better than them anyway.

64. A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of conqueror, that confidence of success that often induces real success.

65. ' I look good I look really good. Hey everyone come and see how good I look'

66. My English teacher from 1955, run to ground by some documentary crew trying to explain my life, said that in her class I had showed no particular promise. This was true. Until the descent of the giant thumb, I showed no particular promise. I also showed no particular promise for some time afterwards, but I did not know this. A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of the life-threatening and dignity-destroying precipice you were walking along, you would switch into actuarial sciences immediately. If I had not been ignorant in this particular way, I would not have announced to an assortment of my high school female friends, in the cafeteria one brown-bag lunchtime, that I was going to be a writer. I said 'writer,' not 'poet;' I did have some common sense. But my announcement was certainly a conversation-stopper. Sticks of celery were suspended in mid-crunch, peanut-butter sandwiches paused halfway between table and mouth; nobody said a word. One of those present reminded me of this incident recently - I had repressed it - and said she had been simply astounded. 'Why?,' I said. 'Because I wanted to be a writer?' 'No,' she said. 'Because you had the guts to say it out loud.'

67. The Rock is the most electrifying man in Sports Entertainment!

68. John Osborne spoke out in a vein of ebullient, free-wheeling rancour that betokened the arrival of something new in the theatre - a sophisticated, articulate lower-class. Most of the critics were offended by Jimmy Porter, but not on account of his anger; a working-class hero is expected to be angry. What nettled them was something quite different: his self-confidence. This was no envious inferior whose insecurity they could pity.

69. On the night Test faced the Great One, this is what he'll see... twelve sharpshooters stinging, eleven eyebrows raising, ten spines a'bustin, nine noggins knocking, eight kicks a'kicking, seven punches punching, six suplexes smashing, five seconds of the people chanting The Rock's name ... four Rock Bottoms, three People's Elbows, on your two buck teeth, and an ass-kicking all over New Orleans!

70. The Rock: '(to the Dudleyz) Who are you two roody poos?'

71. 'Tonight The Rock is going to play movie director, and let you see firsthand the unedited, uncut version of The Rock's major motion picture, entitled 'Laying The Smackdown on Your Roody-Poo Candy Ass!' And when it's all said and done, and all the smoke has cleared, and the millions and the millions of The Rock's fans have finished chanting his name, the Titanic will still be sunk, Monica Lewinsky will still love her cigars, and The Rock will have kicked the living piss out of Mankind!'

72. You think you impress the Rock?

73. Lillian Garcia, are you getting wet...(crowd howls) with perspiration at standing this close to The Rock?

74. Actors have to be the perfect blend of complete realist and also idealist. They have to think that they are the best thing since sliced bread, but know that they're not.

75. If I tell you I'm good, you would probably think I'm boasting, If I tell you I'm no good, You know I'm lying.

76. They have mis-underestimated us!

77. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask! Ditzy is not editing yourself.

78. Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and orators, because he that would obtrude his thoughts and reasons upon a multitude, will convince others the more, as he appears convinced himself.

79. It's gonna be a a killa, a chilla, and a thrilla when I get that gorilla in Manila.

80. This time Norton will see. Im truly the most, and all this time he is been cheasin' a ghost. There are two things, are hard to hit and see, that's a spokie ghost and Muhammad Ali.

81. When you're as great as I am, it's hard to be humble.

82. 'I like to walk out of a diner with enough gas to open a Mobil station.'

83. We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm.

84. All you have to do is kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will crumble to the ground.

85. All in the blue unclouded weather Thick-jewelled shone the saddle-leather, The helmet and the helmet-feather Burned like one burning flame together, As he rode down to Camelot.

86. Then he turned and walked away, and I gazed after him in sorrow. 'Don't look so, girl. He's the first to fall at your feet; he will not be the last'

87. I get onstage now with more attitude at fifty-seven than I had when I was twenty. When I was twenty, my attitude was kind of like, 'Yeah, yeah:I'm a big rock star.' Now, when I get onstage, I go up there, and I am the Moriarty of rock. I am the consummate villain. I am the Hannibal Lector of rock, and I play it like that. Alice just seems like an arrogant bastard or villain who is making the audience feel as though they are lucky to be there when in reality that is exactly the opposite of my personality. With Alice though:it is great to play him or portray him as an Alan Rickman type character who is very condescending. That's what makes him fun to watch - he's Captain Hook.

88. I don't need luck! I've got.. (Good Eats theme starts playing)

89. 'Oh my precocious one,' she said. 'You never fail to charm me. Bisexual is it, how Byronic and charming. Doesn't that double's one's chances for love? I'm so delighted.'

90. She understood how much louder a cock can crow in his own farmyard than elsewhere.

91. Mistaken for me, is he? That's strange, for no one ever mistakes me for Mr. Jones.

92. 'Tis of no matter, your Highness, I have seen their backs before.

93. You've got to learn to like yourself a little more.

94. I can't stand it! I know I've got the best tits on stage, and yet they're all staring at a girl who hasn't got any!

95. The changes in the chief and the assistant chief surgeon were most noticeable. At first they felt that they were just fulfilling their duty to the injured worker but were very dubious about the result. But then, full of confidence they really began doing their best.

96. Babe's interviewer interrupted to point the hole in which Babe put himself Saturday when he pointed out the spot he intended hitting his home run and asked the Great Man if he realized how ridiculous he would have appeared if he had struck out? 'I never thought of it,' said the Great Man. He simply had made up his mind to hit a home run and he did.

97. You can't say I didn't fall for you.

98. Give a girl the correct footwear and she can conquer the world.

99. When Bob's talking, have no doubt, seen?

100. They have nothing on me, those guys. They can't even touch me. Some people rate them better than me. That really bugs me. They think that no Americans play chess. When I meet those Russian patzers I'll put them in their place.