Motivational Quotes

Confidence

Confidence is the bond of friendship.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Confidence

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

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

Pitt, William

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

Loehr, Jim

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Watch my dust.

Ruth, Babe

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''

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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

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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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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Penn, William

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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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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 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

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

Paolo Giordano

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

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

Hasidic Saying

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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 need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

Paterno, Joe

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Confidence is a very fragile thing.

Montana, Joe

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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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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

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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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For they conquer who believe they can.

Dryden, John

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Confidence awakens confidence.

Sachsen, Friedrich Von

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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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Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

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

Smith, Stan

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

Nastase, Ilie

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

Proverb

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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

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