Motivational Quotes

Confidence

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

Best Quotes about Confidence

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

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Corneille, Pierre

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

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.

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

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Penn, William

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Green, Hubert

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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 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

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

Pitt, William

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

Paolo Giordano

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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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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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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

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

Ali, Muhammad

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Confidence awakens confidence.

Sachsen, Friedrich Von

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

Aristotle

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For they conquer who believe they can.

Dryden, John

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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Hazlitt, William

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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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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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 is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

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

Bradshaw, Terry

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