Motivational Quotes

Confidence

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

Best Quotes about Confidence

1.

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

Adams, Franklin P.

2.

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

3.

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

Staubach, Roger

4.

Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Green, Hubert

5.

For they conquer who believe they can.

Dryden, John

6.

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

Anna Freud

7.

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

8.

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

Nastase, Ilie

9.

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Corneille, Pierre

10.

Watch my dust.

Ruth, Babe

11.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

12.

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

Murphy, Eddie

13.

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

McEnroe, John

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Lloyd, Chris Evert

17.

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

18.

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

Bradshaw, Terry

19.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

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

Paterno, Joe

23.

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

24.

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

Paterno, Joe

25.

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

Hasidic Saying

26.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

Confidence is the bond of friendship.

Syrus, Publilius

28.

Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

29.

Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge. To show that I could.

Polanski, Roman

30.

Confidence is courage at ease.

Maher, Daniel

31.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

32.

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

John of the Cross, St.

33.

Assurance is two-thirds of success.

Proverb, Gaelic

34.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

35.

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

Paolo Giordano

36.

Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

37.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

Confidence is a very fragile thing.

Montana, Joe

39.

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

40.

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

Johnson, Samuel

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Penn, William

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Auerbach, Red

47.

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

48.

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

49.

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''

50.

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