Motivational Quotes

Confidence

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Confidence

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

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

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

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

Staubach, Roger

God knows best; he hasn't arranged your anatomy so as to make it easy for you to pat yourself on the back.

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

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

Polanski, Roman

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

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

Nastase, Ilie

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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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Assurance is two-thirds of success.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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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Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

Paterno, Joe

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

Aristotle

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Confidence is the bond of friendship.

Syrus, Publilius

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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

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Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

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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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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 is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.

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

Hasidic Saying

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

Loehr, Jim

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Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Green, Hubert

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Auerbach, Red

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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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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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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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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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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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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

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Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Corneille, Pierre

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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

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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 is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.

Pitt, William

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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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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

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Confidence is courage at ease.