Motivational Quotes

Confidence

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

Best Quotes about Confidence

Watch my dust.

Ruth, Babe

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Confidence is a very fragile thing.

Montana, Joe

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''

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

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

Storey, David

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

10.

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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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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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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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Paolo Giordano

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

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

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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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One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

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Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Green, Hubert

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

Pitt, William

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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 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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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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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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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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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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Confidence is the result of 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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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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If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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