Motivational Quotes

Confidence

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

- O'Brien, Michael

Best Quotes about Confidence

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

Auerbach, Red

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

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.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

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

Smith, Stan

Confidence is courage at ease.

Maher, Daniel

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

Courage comes from wanting to do it well. Security comes from knowing you can do it well. Confidence comes from having done it well.

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

Hasidic Saying

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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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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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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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Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Proverb

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Confidence is the bond of friendship.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Pitt, 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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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 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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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

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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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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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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Hazlitt, William

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

Nastase, Ilie

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

Polanski, Roman

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

Bradshaw, Terry

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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

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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For they conquer who believe they can.

Dryden, John

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

Ali, Muhammad

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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 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''

42.

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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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 is a very fragile thing.

Montana, Joe

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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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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

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Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.