Motivational Quotes

Confidence

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Confidence

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

Pitt, William

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

Hasidic Saying

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

Nastase, Ilie

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

Adams, Franklin P.

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

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

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Anna Freud

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

Lloyd, Chris Evert

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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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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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

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

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

Paolo Giordano

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Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

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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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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Assurance is two-thirds of success.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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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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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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

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

Smith, Stan

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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Hazlitt, William

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Bradshaw, Terry

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Confidence awakens confidence.

Sachsen, Friedrich Von

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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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Confidence is a very fragile thing.

Montana, 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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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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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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Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Green, Hubert

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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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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Aristotle

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One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Corneille, Pierre