Motivational Quotes

Confidence

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

- Auerbach, Red

Best Quotes about Confidence

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.

Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

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

Murphy, Eddie

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

West, Jerry

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

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Loehr, Jim

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

Hasidic Saying

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb

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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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Confidence is courage at ease.

Maher, Daniel

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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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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

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

Pitt, William

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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

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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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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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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

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

McEnroe, John

23.

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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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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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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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Hazlitt, William

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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''

28.

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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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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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

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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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One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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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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Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

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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 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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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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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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Confidence is a very fragile thing.

Montana, Joe

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

Paolo Giordano

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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.