Motivational Quotes

Confidence

Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge. To show that I could.

- Polanski, Roman

Best Quotes about Confidence

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Paterno, Joe

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Anna Freud

I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.

Murphy, Eddie

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

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.

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Hazlitt, William

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

McEnroe, John

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Confidence is courage at ease.

Maher, Daniel

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Maurois, Andre

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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Penn, William

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb

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

Smith, Stan

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

Auerbach, Red

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Confidence is a very fragile thing.

Montana, Joe

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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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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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Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Green, Hubert

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For they conquer who believe they can.

Dryden, John

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Watch my dust.

Ruth, Babe

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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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Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

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The values of the Walt Disney company: The four C s: Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, Consistency, and the greatest of these is Confidence.

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

Paolo Giordano

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One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

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

Aristotle

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

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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-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

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Assurance is two-thirds of success.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Confidence awakens confidence.

Sachsen, Friedrich Von

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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

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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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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

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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