Motivational Quotes

Confidence

One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

- Boiste

Best Quotes about Confidence

Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

Lloyd, Chris Evert

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

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

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

Polanski, Roman

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

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Anna Freud

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Smith, Stan

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

Staubach, Roger

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

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

Hasidic Saying

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

West, Jerry

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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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Confidence awakens confidence.

Sachsen, Friedrich Von

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Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Nastase, Ilie

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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Penn, William

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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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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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The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Auerbach, Red

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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

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

Ali, Muhammad

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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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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

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

Aristotle

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Proverb

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For they conquer who believe they can.

Dryden, John

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Watch my dust.

Ruth, Babe

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

Pitt, William

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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 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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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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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