Motivational Quotes

Confidence

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

Best Quotes about Confidence

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

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

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Polanski, Roman

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

Storey, David

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

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

Loehr, Jim

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Watch my dust.

Ruth, Babe

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

Pitt, William

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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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If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will?

Unitas, Johnny

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

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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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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 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

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

Bradshaw, Terry

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One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

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

Nastase, Ilie

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

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Confidence is the bond of friendship.

Syrus, Publilius

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Assurance is two-thirds of success.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

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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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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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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Penn, William

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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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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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Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Green, Hubert

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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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Confidence awakens confidence.

Sachsen, Friedrich Von

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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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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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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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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey