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

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

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

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

Adams, Franklin P.

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb

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

Johnson, Samuel

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hasidic Saying

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

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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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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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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Hazlitt, William

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

Paolo Giordano

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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.

22.

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 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

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

Auerbach, Red

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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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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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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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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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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Watch my dust.

Ruth, Babe

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Nastase, Ilie

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

Pitt, William

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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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Confidence is the bond of friendship.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Ali, Muhammad

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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

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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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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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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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I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.

Murphy, Eddie