Motivational Quotes

Confidence

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Confidence

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

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Loehr, Jim

Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.

Adams, Franklin P.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

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

Hasidic Saying

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

West, Jerry

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Ali, Muhammad

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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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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 is the result of hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

Staubach, Roger

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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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Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Green, Hubert

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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

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

Auerbach, Red

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

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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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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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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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Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

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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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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Hazlitt, William

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Nastase, Ilie

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Confidence awakens confidence.

Sachsen, Friedrich Von

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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 is courage at ease.

Maher, Daniel

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Penn, William

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

Aristotle

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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

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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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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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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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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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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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Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey