Motivational Quotes

Confidence

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

- Anna Freud

Best Quotes about Confidence

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Penn, William

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Lincoln, Abraham

In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.

John of the Cross, St.

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

With confidence, you can reach truly amazing heights; without confidence, even the simplest accomplishments are beyond your grasp.

Loehr, Jim

Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.

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Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

Staubach, Roger

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He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.

Auerbach, Red

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Confidence is a very fragile thing.

Montana, Joe

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

Unitas, Johnny

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Confidence is the bond of friendship.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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I don't feel any pressure. I just try to stay calm, follow my game plan and try not to overthrown.

Gooden, Dwight

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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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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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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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Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Green, Hubert

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For they conquer who believe they can.

Dryden, John

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Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

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Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge. To show that I could.

Polanski, Roman

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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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I build confidence when I practice a variety of shots - hitting it high or low, working the ball. A lot of golfers go to the range and just hit full shots. That doesn't build on-course confidence, because you won't always hit full shots out there. My confidence is built on knowing I can effectively work the ball in any circumstance.

Carner, JoAnne

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

Smith, Stan

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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

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Show me a man with head held high and I'll show you a man who can't get used to bifocals.

Morse Telegraph Newsletter

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Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.

West, Jerry

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Confidence awakens confidence.

Sachsen, Friedrich Von

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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

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I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Anna Freud

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When you engage in systematic, purposeful actin, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident abut yourself.

Tracy, Brian

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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Hazlitt, William

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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Confidence is the result of hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

Staubach, Roger

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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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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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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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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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Courage comes from wanting to do it well. Security comes from knowing you can do it well. Confidence comes from having done it well.

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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