Motivational Quotes

Confidence

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

Best Quotes about Confidence

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.

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

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

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

Watch my dust.

Ruth, Babe

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

For they conquer who believe they can.

Dryden, John

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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 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 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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One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

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Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

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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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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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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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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Nastase, Ilie

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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

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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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Confidence awakens confidence.

Sachsen, Friedrich Von

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

Auerbach, Red

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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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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Ali, Muhammad

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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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 courage at ease.

Maher, Daniel

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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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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