Motivational Quotes

Confidence

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

- O'Brien, Michael

Best Quotes about Confidence

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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.

2.

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

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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

4.

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

Lloyd, Chris Evert

5.

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

6.

Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Green, Hubert

7.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

9.

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Hazlitt, William

10.

For they conquer who believe they can.

Dryden, John

11.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

Baltasar Gracian

14.

Confidence is the result of hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

Staubach, Roger

15.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

16.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

Assurance is two-thirds of success.

Proverb, Gaelic

18.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

20.

One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

21.

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

22.

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

23.

I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations.

McEnroe, John

24.

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

25.

Watch my dust.

Ruth, Babe

26.

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

Storey, David

27.

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

Aristotle

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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

29.

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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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

31.

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

32.

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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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

35.

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

Polanski, Roman

36.

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Corneille, Pierre

37.

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.

38.

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

John of the Cross, St.

39.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

40.

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

Paterno, Joe

41.

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

Proverb

42.

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

Smith, Stan

43.

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

44.

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

45.

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

46.

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

Loehr, Jim

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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.