Motivational Quotes

Confidence

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

- O'Brien, Michael

Best Quotes about Confidence

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

Storey, David

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

Watch my dust.

Ruth, Babe

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

Anna Freud

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

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

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

Paterno, Joe

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

Johnson, Samuel

For they conquer who believe they can.

Dryden, John

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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Confidence awakens confidence.

Sachsen, Friedrich Von

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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hasidic Saying

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Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Green, Hubert

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Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

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

West, Jerry

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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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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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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Penn, William

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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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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

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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

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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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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 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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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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One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

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

Loehr, Jim

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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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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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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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Confidence is the bond of friendship.

Syrus, Publilius

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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

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

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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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Confidence is courage at ease.

Maher, Daniel

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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