Motivational Quotes

Confidence

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

Best Quotes about Confidence

1.

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

McEnroe, John

2.

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''

3.

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

4.

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

Loehr, Jim

5.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

6.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

7.

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

Staubach, Roger

8.

For they conquer who believe they can.

Dryden, John

9.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

10.

Confidence is the bond of friendship.

Syrus, Publilius

11.

One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

12.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Assurance is two-thirds of success.

Proverb, Gaelic

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Storey, David

19.

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

20.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

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

22.

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

Paterno, Joe

23.

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

Polanski, Roman

24.

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

25.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

26.

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

Bradshaw, Terry

27.

Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Green, Hubert

28.

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

29.

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Hazlitt, William

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Penn, William

35.

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

Hasidic Saying

36.

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

37.

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

Proverb

38.

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

39.

Confidence is a very fragile thing.

Montana, Joe

40.

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