#confidence

My day jobs... I knew I was bad at those, so I didn't really have the confidence to think that I could do comedy. But I knew I hated the day jobs. ↗

— Dave Attell

#comedy #confidence #could #day #hated

I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#aware #certainly #clever #confidence #creative

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning. ↗

— Francis Atterbury

#confidence #corrects #levity #school #sinning

When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give you a tremendous feeling of confidence and well-being. ↗

— Lauren Bacall

#confidence #downhill #feeling #give #reaches

Sharpe is my favorite role of all that I've played. He's a very complex character. He knows that he's a good soldier, but he will always have to fight the prejudice of aristocratic officers because of his rough working-class upbringing. On the battlefield, he's full of confidence - but off it, he is unsure, a bit shy and ill at ease. ↗

— Sean Bean

#aristocratic #battlefield #because #bit #character

The crisis in Europe has affected the U.S. economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence, and pressuring U.S. financial markets and institutions. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#affected #business #confidence #consumer #consumer confidence

The beauty on the inside, will determine the ugly on the outside. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#self-confidence #self-worth #ugly #beauty

To be able to live each day with honor, respect and dignity is the greatest achievement of all. ↗

— Roopleen

#courage #determination #goals #inspiration #inspire

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. ↗

— Mark Twain

#confidence #ignorance #life #need #succeed

But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity spreads like contagion. So people crave stability and order. ↗

— Tony Blair

#contagion #crave #economies #ever #fall