Motivational Quotes

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.

Best Quotes about Confidence

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

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

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

Lloyd, Chris Evert

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

One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Smith, Stan

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Anna Freud

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

Proverb

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

Hasidic Saying

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

Ali, Muhammad

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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Hazlitt, William

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Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

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

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Confidence awakens confidence.

Sachsen, Friedrich Von

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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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Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Corneille, Pierre

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Assurance is two-thirds of success.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

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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 is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

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

McEnroe, John

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

Aristotle

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

Johnson, Samuel

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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

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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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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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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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Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

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