Motivational Quotes

Confidence

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

- O'Brien, Michael

Best Quotes about Confidence

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

Aristotle

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

Paterno, Joe

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Staubach, Roger

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

Polanski, Roman

The values of the Walt Disney company: The four C s: Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, Consistency, and the greatest of these is Confidence.

One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

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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

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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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Confidence is the bond of friendship.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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Assurance is two-thirds of success.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

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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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Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 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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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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For they conquer who believe they can.

Dryden, John

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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 a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.

Pitt, William

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Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

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Confidence awakens confidence.

Sachsen, Friedrich Von

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

Nastase, Ilie

31.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Confidence is courage at ease.

Maher, Daniel

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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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Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

Maurois, Andre

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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

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

Smith, Stan

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

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Confidence is a very fragile thing.

Montana, Joe

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

Proverb

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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

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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

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Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Green, Hubert

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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 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