Motivational Quotes

Confidence

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

- Corneille, Pierre

Best Quotes about Confidence

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

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

Smith, Stan

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Hasidic Saying

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Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

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

Paolo Giordano

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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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Confidence is the bond of friendship.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Nastase, Ilie

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Proverb

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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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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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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

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

Loehr, Jim

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Confidence is a very fragile thing.

Montana, Joe

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

Bradshaw, Terry

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Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Aristotle

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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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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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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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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

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