Motivational Quotes

Confidence

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Confidence

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

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

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

Paterno, Joe

I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.

Murphy, Eddie

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

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

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

Confidence is courage at ease.

Maher, Daniel

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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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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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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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''

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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Penn, William

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

Nastase, Ilie

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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 a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.

West, Jerry

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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Hazlitt, 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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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 result of hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

Staubach, Roger

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Green, Hubert

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Confidence is a very fragile thing.

Montana, Joe

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

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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 and courage come through preparation and practice.

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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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Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Smith, Stan

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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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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

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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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Confidence awakens confidence.

Sachsen, Friedrich Von

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Auerbach, Red

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