Motivational Quotes

Confidence

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Confidence

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

One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Hasidic Saying

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

Johnson, Samuel

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.

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

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

Paterno, Joe

10.

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

11.

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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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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Confidence is the bond of friendship.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Paolo Giordano

16.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.

Pitt, William

18.

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

19.

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

Adams, Franklin P.

20.

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

21.

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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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

23.

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

Smith, Stan

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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

25.

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Hazlitt, William

26.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

27.

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

28.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

29.

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

Loehr, Jim

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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

31.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

33.

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

McEnroe, John

34.

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

Lloyd, Chris Evert

35.

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

Staubach, Roger

36.

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

Auerbach, Red

37.

Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

38.

Confidence is courage at ease.

Maher, Daniel

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

40.

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

West, Jerry

41.

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

Johnson, Samuel

43.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

45.

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

46.

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

Proverb

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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