Motivational Quotes

Confidence

I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.

- Murphy, Eddie

Best Quotes about Confidence

For they conquer who believe they can.

Dryden, John

Watch my dust.

Ruth, Babe

If I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle.

David Nicholls

Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.

Brooks, Phillips

The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.

Hasidic Saying

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

Landers, Ann

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Corneille, Pierre

Confidence is a very fragile thing.

Montana, Joe

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

Maurois, Andre

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I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations.

McEnroe, John

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True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man.

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My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.

Scott Berkun

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There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself,'It all depends on me.'

Andre Gide

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You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path.

Steve Jobs

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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Penn, William

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What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.

Bradshaw, Terry

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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Aristotle

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You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

Paterno, Joe

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Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

Smith, Stan

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Confidence in another person's virtue is no light evidence of your own.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

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It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.

Philip Adams

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Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

Oprah Winfrey

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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

Lincoln, Abraham

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It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself.

Ali, Muhammad

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I never think that there's something I can't do, whether it's beating my opponent one on one or practicing another hour because something about my game is just not right.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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God knows best; he hasn't arranged your anatomy so as to make it easy for you to pat yourself on the back.

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You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know to be arrogant about it.

Ruben Studdard

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Assurance is two-thirds of success.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

Shakti Gawain

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Confidence awakens confidence.

Sachsen, Friedrich Von

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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.

Storey, David

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The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

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Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

Baltasar Gracian

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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

Marden, Orison Swett

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If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

Johnson, Samuel

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Feeling special is the worst kind of cage a person can build for himself.

Paolo Giordano

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Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.

Pitt, William

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Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

Paterno, Joe

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Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failure. In the assurance of strength there is strength, and, they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Confidence is the bond of friendship.

Syrus, Publilius

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There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

Johnson, Samuel

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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy

Norman Vincent Peale

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The values of the Walt Disney company: The four C s: Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, Consistency, and the greatest of these is Confidence.