Confidence Crisis Quotes

Long words, fat talk they may tell us something about ourselves. Has the passion for fat in the language increased as self-confidence has waned?

We have a crisis in confidence because we have an absence of leadership.

There's definitely a lack of self-belief in many players, which is the only complaint I have about men's tennis.

I have always been a player whose form goes up and down but at the moment I feel my batting confidence is at its lowest. Negative comments can affect you and they probably have.

The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.

Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.

Everyone around me says, You're a genius! You're great! That's your voice! But I'm not sure if they're right.

Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

In the end, what brings civilizations down is when the elites lose confidence in the rightness of their cause.

As a Coalition Government, we inherited a legacy of lack of trust and confidence in political system.

I might be too strung out on compliments, overdosed on confidence/ Started not to give a f- and stop fearing the consequence/ Drinking every night because we drink to my accomplishments.

Remind your people in America that they should not lose their confidence, because when they lose their confidence, the whole world suffers.

Back in my heyday, when I was out on the streets - I'm engaged now, about to get married - but before that I was quite the sex symbol. My line was, "If I was taller, would I have a chance?".

I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like. That's sad.

There is a close connection between lack of confidence and the passionate state of mind.

Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.

I had a similar year back in 1984 when I felt like I couldn't lose.

I told my mom, 'I'm not buying another magazine until I can get past this thought of looking like the girl on the cover'. She said, "Miley, you are the girl on the cover,' and I was, like, 'I know, but I don't feel like that girl every day.' You can't always feel perfect.

At the start of every season, I always asked myself - am I meeting my own standards? Can I still do it? I didn't want to come to the conclusion that I couldn't during a season.

If you have to name me starting quarterback to go be a starting quarterback, then I probably have some issues I need to address.

I think anybody goes through a crisis of confidence from time to time. You have to kind of doubt yourself, sometimes. It's the way forward.

Cheever constantly voiced doubts about his writing. Reading 'The Naked and the Dead' made him despair of his own 'confined talents.'

America already holds the record for freak movements. Now we have a new one. It's called "Restoring Confidence." Rich men who never had a mission in life outside of watching a stock ticker are working day and night "restoring confidence." Writers are working night shifts, speakers' tables are littered up, ministers are preaching statistics, all on "restoring confidence."

I was going on years and years of auditions and being told I was too this, too that, not enough of this, not enough of that, to the point where I was so afraid and diluting myself into absolutely nothing...