Motivational Quotes

Confidence

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

Best Quotes about Confidence

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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''

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

Paolo Giordano

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

For they conquer who believe they can.

Dryden, John

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

11.

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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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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Assurance is two-thirds of success.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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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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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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Penn, William

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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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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

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

Smith, Stan

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Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Green, Hubert

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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

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

Aristotle

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

Paterno, Joe

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

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

Loehr, Jim

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

Polanski, Roman

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

Staubach, Roger

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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

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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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Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

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

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

Pitt, William

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

Nastase, Ilie

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Confidence is courage at ease.

Maher, Daniel

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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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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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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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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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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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

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