Motivational Quotes

Confidence

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Confidence

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

John of the Cross, St.

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

West, Jerry

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

Nastase, Ilie

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

Smith, Stan

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

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

Aristotle

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

Confidence is courage at ease.

Maher, Daniel

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

Paolo Giordano

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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

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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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Assurance is two-thirds of success.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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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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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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Penn, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Confidence awakens confidence.

Sachsen, Friedrich Von

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

Pitt, William

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Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

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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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Never put much confidence in such, as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.

Hare, J. C.

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

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

Hasidic Saying

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For they conquer who believe they can.

Dryden, John

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Green, Hubert

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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 contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

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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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One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

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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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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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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 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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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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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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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

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Watch my dust.

Ruth, Babe

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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