Motivational Quotes

Confidence

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

- Loehr, Jim

Best Quotes about Confidence

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

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

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

Aristotle

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

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

Bradshaw, Terry

Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Green, Hubert

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

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Adams, Franklin P.

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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 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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For they conquer who believe they can.

Dryden, John

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

Auerbach, Red

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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

West, Jerry

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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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Confidence is courage at ease.

Maher, Daniel

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

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Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

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

Pitt, William

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

Nastase, Ilie

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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Penn, William

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

Hasidic Saying

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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 bond of friendship.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Paolo Giordano

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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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Who ever does not respect confidence will never find happiness in their path.

Proverb