Motivational Quotes

Confidence

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Confidence

1.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

2.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

4.

Confidence is courage at ease.

Maher, Daniel

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

6.

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

Adams, Franklin P.

7.

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

Johnson, Samuel

8.

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

West, Jerry

9.

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

Nastase, Ilie

10.

Watch my dust.

Ruth, Babe

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Paterno, Joe

14.

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Corneille, Pierre

15.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

16.

Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.

Storey, David

17.

For they conquer who believe they can.

Dryden, John

18.

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

Bradshaw, Terry

19.

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

Maurois, Andre

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

24.

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

Pitt, William

25.

Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Green, Hubert

26.

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

Murphy, Eddie

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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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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.

31.

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

32.

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

Paterno, Joe

33.

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

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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.

35.

Assurance is two-thirds of success.

Proverb, Gaelic

36.

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

Proverb

37.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

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

Lloyd, Chris Evert

40.

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

John of the Cross, St.

41.

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

Staubach, Roger

42.

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

McEnroe, John

43.

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

44.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Penn, William

45.

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Hazlitt, William

46.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

49.

Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

50.

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