Motivational Quotes

Confidence

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

Best Quotes about Confidence

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

Murphy, Eddie

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

Paolo Giordano

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

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Hazlitt, William

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

For they conquer who believe they can.

Dryden, John

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 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

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

Hasidic Saying

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Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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Who ever does not respect confidence will never find happiness in their path.

Proverb

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Assurance is two-thirds of success.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

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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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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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Confidence is the bond of friendship.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Auerbach, Red

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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

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

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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

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Smith, Stan

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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 is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

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Confidence awakens confidence.

Sachsen, Friedrich Von

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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

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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

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

McEnroe, John

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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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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

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Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Green, Hubert

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

Bradshaw, Terry

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