Loss of Confidence Quotes

The culture of critique undermines the spirit not only of people in public roles but of those who read about them, afraid to believe in anyone or anything because the next story... will tell them why they shouldn't.

When people get scared, they quit giving.

Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that lowers confidence levels even further, on and on.

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.

I don't know if I'm more confident than ever before, because I definitely had confidence when I was starting out. Maybe I have less confidence now that I did then.

Policy flip-flops debase the currency of United States credibility.

Bullying made me feel insecure, alone, ugly, powerless, and hopeless at times.

You go from being with the guys all the time in the locker room, in practice, having a militarized brain in terms of this schedule, and then, all of a sudden, you are on your own. You lose a sense of purpose; you lose a sense of yourself. And you lose confidence. You find yourself saying, 'I was the best at this, and now I'm not the best.'

The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens of his spyglass has a flaw, a blurred spot -- the sail he has seen.

I had been a Maoist, and then when the Gang of Four was overthrown, I was completely distraught. I was bedridden for three weeks; it was a very painful experience for me. Not only because I had been wrong, but because I felt really embarrassed that I had been lecturing and pontificating with such self-confidence.

The current crisis is not simply a market failure in which prices are not functioning properly, but a profound loss of faith in money’s capacity to tell the truth.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

Washington, D.C.'s lost the trust and faith of everyone.

Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.

At some points, I wanted to quit. There were surgeries after surgeries, and I didn't really believe in myself. I didn't feel good about my body.

I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.

Fear is faithlessness.

If you start worrying about your shooting percentages, you start not taking the shots you know you can make. You start worry about taking shots because you don't want to mess up your percentage.

After 'Four Feathers,' I quit then because I just lost faith. I didn't like how the business was.

The worst of poisons: to mistrust one's power.

There was a period where I stopped auditioning because I was like, 'I don't have the heart.' There's just so much rejection.

Erosion of faith and trust in government - that is the real problem that confronts us.

Falling down became second nature and it really didn't bother me.

I know that when I talk to my parents and my friends, there's a strong feeling of the world out of control and damaged.

Europe has certainly lost confidence in itself. This was something that, when I was a young man, we never imagined would happen.