Motivational Quotes

Confidence

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

- West, Jerry

Best Quotes about Confidence

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

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

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

John of the Cross, St.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Smith, Stan

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

Paolo Giordano

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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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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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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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

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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 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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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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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

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Confidence is the bond of friendship.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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For they conquer who believe they can.

Dryden, John

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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 contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Nastase, Ilie

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Confidence is a very fragile thing.

Montana, Joe

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

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One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

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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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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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Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Green, Hubert

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Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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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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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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Watch my dust.

Ruth, Babe