Motivational Quotes

Confidence

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

- Lloyd, Chris Evert

Best Quotes about Confidence

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

Hasidic Saying

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

McEnroe, John

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''

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

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Corneille, Pierre

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Anna Freud

One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

I don't feel any pressure. I just try to stay calm, follow my game plan and try not to overthrown.

Gooden, Dwight

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 awakens confidence.

Sachsen, Friedrich Von

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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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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Penn, William

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Confidence is courage at ease.

Maher, Daniel

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Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Green, Hubert

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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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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 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Pitt, William

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

Loehr, Jim

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Confidence is a very fragile thing.

Montana, Joe

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What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.

Bradshaw, Terry

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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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Assurance is two-thirds of success.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Nastase, Ilie

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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For they conquer who believe they can.

Dryden, John

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

Smith, Stan

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

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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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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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Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

Paterno, Joe

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

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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