Motivational Quotes

Confidence

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

Best Quotes about Confidence

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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

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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

3.

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

Paterno, Joe

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

5.

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

Johnson, Samuel

6.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

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

John of the Cross, St.

9.

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

10.

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

Paolo Giordano

11.

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

McEnroe, John

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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

13.

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Staubach, Roger

15.

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

Smith, Stan

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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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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

18.

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself.

Ali, Muhammad

19.

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Hazlitt, William

20.

Watch my dust.

Ruth, Babe

21.

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

22.

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 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

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

Nastase, Ilie

28.

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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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

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

Adams, Franklin P.

32.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Penn, William

33.

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

Hasidic Saying

34.

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

39.

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

Pitt, William

40.

For they conquer who believe they can.

Dryden, John

41.

Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

42.

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

West, Jerry

43.

Confidence awakens confidence.

Sachsen, Friedrich Von

44.

One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

45.

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

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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

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

Aristotle

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Confidence is courage at ease.

Maher, Daniel

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