Motivational Quotes

Confidence

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

- John of the Cross, St.

Best Quotes about Confidence

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

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

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

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

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Penn, William

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

Hasidic Saying

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

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Confidence awakens confidence.

Sachsen, Friedrich Von

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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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Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Green, Hubert

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

Paolo Giordano

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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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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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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

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Smith, Stan

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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 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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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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For they conquer who believe they can.

Dryden, John

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

Loehr, Jim

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

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One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

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Confidence is the bond of friendship.

Syrus, Publilius

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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 a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.

Pitt, William

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

Nastase, Ilie

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

Aristotle

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

Maurois, Andre

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Confidence is a very fragile thing.

Montana, Joe

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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