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

16.

Watch my dust.

Ruth, Babe

17.

Confidence awakens confidence.

Sachsen, Friedrich Von

18.

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

Paterno, Joe

19.

Confidence is a very fragile thing.

Montana, Joe

20.

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

Adams, Franklin P.

21.

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

Anna Freud

22.

God knows best; he hasn't arranged your anatomy so as to make it easy for you to pat yourself on the back.

23.

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

24.

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

West, Jerry

25.

Courage comes from wanting to do it well. Security comes from knowing you can do it well. Confidence comes from having done it well.

26.

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

27.

Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

28.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

29.

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

Auerbach, Red

30.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

31.

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

Proverb

32.

Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Green, Hubert

33.

One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

34.

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

35.

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

36.

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

Loehr, Jim

37.

Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge. To show that I could.

Polanski, Roman

38.

Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

Staubach, Roger

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

43.

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

Storey, David

44.

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.