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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

3.

Confidence is a very fragile thing.

Montana, Joe

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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

5.

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

Auerbach, Red

6.

One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

7.

Courage comes from wanting to do it well. Security comes from knowing you can do it well. Confidence comes from having done it well.

8.

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

9.

Assurance is two-thirds of success.

Proverb, Gaelic

10.

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

Ali, Muhammad

11.

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

12.

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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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Hazlitt, William

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

Smith, Stan

15.

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

16.

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

17.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

I don't feel any pressure. I just try to stay calm, follow my game plan and try not to overthrown.

Gooden, Dwight

19.

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

Johnson, Samuel

20.

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

21.

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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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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Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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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Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.

Storey, David

27.

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

28.

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

Proverb

29.

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

30.

Confidence awakens confidence.

Sachsen, Friedrich Von

31.

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

32.

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

Pitt, William

33.

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

34.

Watch my dust.

Ruth, Babe

35.

In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.

John of the Cross, St.

36.

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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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Penn, William

38.

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

Maurois, Andre

39.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Loehr, Jim

41.

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

Bradshaw, Terry

42.

Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

43.

Confidence in another person's virtue is no light evidence of your own.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

45.

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

46.

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

Paolo Giordano

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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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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

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

Aristotle