Motivational Quotes

Confidence

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''

Best Quotes about Confidence

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

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

Aristotle

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

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

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

Staubach, Roger

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

Johnson, Samuel

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Penn, William

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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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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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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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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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Watch my dust.

Ruth, Babe

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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

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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 a very fragile thing.

Montana, Joe

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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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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Hazlitt, William

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For they conquer who believe they can.

Dryden, John

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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

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Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

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

Auerbach, Red

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One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

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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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Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Green, Hubert

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

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

Hasidic Saying

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

Paolo Giordano

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

Nastase, Ilie

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

Loehr, Jim

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

Proverb

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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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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