Motivational Quotes

Confidence

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

- Auerbach, Red

Best Quotes about Confidence

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

Confidence awakens confidence.

Sachsen, Friedrich Von

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

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

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Penn, William

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

John of the Cross, St.

Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.

Storey, David

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

Paolo Giordano

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Maurois, Andre

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

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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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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

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

Bradshaw, Terry

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Confidence is the bond of friendship.

Syrus, Publilius

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Confidence is a very fragile thing.

Montana, Joe

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Assurance is two-thirds of success.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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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Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Green, Hubert

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Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

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

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Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

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

Proverb

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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

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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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Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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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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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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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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

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

Smith, Stan

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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.