Motivational Quotes

Confidence

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best Quotes about Confidence

Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Maurois, Andre

Confidence is courage at ease.

Maher, Daniel

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

Paolo Giordano

Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

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

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Paterno, Joe

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

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

Auerbach, Red

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

McEnroe, John

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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

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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.

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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Penn, William

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

Aristotle

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Storey, David

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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

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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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Assurance is two-thirds of success.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Confidence is the bond of friendship.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Confidence is a very fragile thing.

Montana, Joe

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

Lloyd, Chris Evert

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

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One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

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

Pitt, William

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

Proverb

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

Bradshaw, Terry

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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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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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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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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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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-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

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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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Confidence awakens confidence.