Motivational Quotes

Confidence

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Confidence

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

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

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

Polanski, Roman

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

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

Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Green, Hubert

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Loehr, Jim

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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

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

Staubach, Roger

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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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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.

Nastase, Ilie

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

Smith, Stan

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Never put much confidence in such, as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.

Hare, J. C.

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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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Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

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Confidence is courage at ease.

Maher, Daniel

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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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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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One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

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I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will?

Unitas, Johnny

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

Paterno, Joe

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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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Watch my dust.

Ruth, Babe

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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

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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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Assurance is two-thirds of success.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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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Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.

Nicklaus, Jack

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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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Confidence is the bond of friendship.

Syrus, Publilius

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Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

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You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

Lloyd, Chris Evert