Motivational Quotes

Confidence

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Green, Hubert

Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

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

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Penn, William

Confidence is courage at ease.

Maher, Daniel

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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

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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 a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.

Pitt, William

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

Smith, Stan

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I don't feel any pressure. I just try to stay calm, follow my game plan and try not to overthrown.

Gooden, Dwight

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

West, Jerry

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

Staubach, Roger

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

Proverb

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hasidic Saying

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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.

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

Paolo Giordano

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Auerbach, Red

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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.

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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 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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Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

Landers, Ann

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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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Confidence is the bond of friendship.

Syrus, Publilius

40.

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

Nastase, Ilie

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Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

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Confidence awakens confidence.

Sachsen, Friedrich Von

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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I build confidence when I practice a variety of shots - hitting it high or low, working the ball. A lot of golfers go to the range and just hit full shots. That doesn't build on-course confidence, because you won't always hit full shots out there. My confidence is built on knowing I can effectively work the ball in any circumstance.

Carner, JoAnne

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

Aristotle

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Assurance is two-thirds of success.

Proverb, Gaelic