Lost Confidence Quotes

Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed

To tell the truth, I just lost confidence in Joe Hooker.

After years of globalisation, disaffected populations have lost confidence that the system is fair.

I have lost all confidence in the justice and rectitude of the intentions of Congress.

I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.

At 19, you know everything; by the time you're 40, you haven't got a clue.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.

It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity, two of the best qualities that heaven gives them, and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.

If somebody says they are going to do something - and then later they don't - it affects me a lot, and I lose confidence in them.

When I was in grade school, my teachers decided I was just about the dumbest thing to come through the door in a long time. Whatever the lesson, whatever the subject, I would sit and listen to them with a lost, glassy-eyed expression on my face.

My derring-do allows me to dance the rigadoon around you but by the time I'm close to you I lose my desideratum.

I lose confidence in other people, all kinds of institutions.

Confidence can be elusive because you don't know you've lost it. It's not something you can put your finger on.

Speakers' nerves affect them in various ways. Some tremble, some become frenzied. I lose all confidence, and suffer from a leaden oppression that makes me wonder why I ever agreed to speak at all; the Tomb and the Conqueror Worm seem preferable to delivering the stupid and piffling speech I have so carefully prepared.

I think after doing Push and Shove and having it not be successful, I lost a lot of confidence. Songwriting, for me, has always been traumatic, and I've always made all these excuses. But I've realized that you have to just accept that it was a gift: "I don't know where it came from, I don't know how I did it, but I did write all those songs, and I gotta do it again."

If you're an actor and you don't act for a long time you sort of think, I wonder if I can still do it.

I used to be sure of things. Me, once i had all the answers. I wish i was a kid again, when i had all the answers