Motivational Quotes

Confidence

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

Best Quotes about Confidence

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

Storey, David

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Penn, William

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

Watch my dust.

Ruth, Babe

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

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

Aristotle

Confidence is a very fragile thing.

Montana, Joe

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

Pitt, William

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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

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Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Green, Hubert

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Assurance is two-thirds of success.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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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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 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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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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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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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 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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Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

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

Paolo Giordano

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

Ali, Muhammad

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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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Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

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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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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

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Confidence is the bond of friendship.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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 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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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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Landers, Ann

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Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

Lloyd, Chris Evert