Motivational Quotes

Confidence

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Confidence

Watch my dust.

Ruth, Babe

One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

Paterno, Joe

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

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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.

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

John of the Cross, St.

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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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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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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The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Pitt, William

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Aristotle

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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

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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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Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

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Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Hazlitt, William

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

Proverb

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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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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 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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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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For they conquer who believe they can.

Dryden, John

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

Paolo Giordano

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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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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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Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Gooden, Dwight