Motivational Quotes

Confidence

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

- Auerbach, Red

Best Quotes about Confidence

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

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.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

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

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Watch my dust.

Ruth, Babe

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

Nastase, Ilie

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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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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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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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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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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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Green, Hubert

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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 a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.

Pitt, William

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

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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 awakens confidence.

Sachsen, Friedrich Von

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

Proverb

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

Murphy, Eddie

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Confidence is a very fragile thing.

Montana, Joe

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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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One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

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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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For they conquer who believe they can.

Dryden, John

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

Paolo Giordano

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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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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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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

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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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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Penn, William