One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

— Ashe, Arthur

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

— Gandhi, Mahatma

Self-confidence is the result of a successfully survived risk.

— Gibb, Jack

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

— Huxley, Aldous

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

— Long, Lazarus

I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.

— Melbourne, Lord

True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.

— Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence.

— Patton, George S.

I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence.

— Poe, Edgar Allan

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.

— Pollock, Channing

There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude -- confidence in self.

— Seneca

It is easy -- terribly easy -- to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

— Shaw, George Bernard

Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.

— White, Stewart E.

Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradles. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.

— Woolf, Virginia