Motivational Quotes

Confidence

For they conquer who believe they can.

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Confidence

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Corneille, Pierre

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

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

Watch my dust.

Ruth, Babe

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

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

McEnroe, John

Confidence is courage at ease.

Maher, Daniel

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

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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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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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

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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

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

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

Hasidic Saying

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

Aristotle

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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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Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Green, Hubert

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Ali, Muhammad

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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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Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

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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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One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

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

Nastase, Ilie

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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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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

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

Murphy, Eddie

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Staubach, Roger

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

John of the Cross, St.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Penn, William

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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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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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Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Hazlitt, William