Motivational Quotes

Confidence

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

Best Quotes about Confidence

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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

2.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Smith, Stan

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

Aristotle

10.

Confidence is a very fragile thing.

Montana, Joe

11.

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 that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

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.

14.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Penn, William

15.

Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

16.

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

Ali, Muhammad

17.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

I don't feel any pressure. I just try to stay calm, follow my game plan and try not to overthrown.

Gooden, Dwight

19.

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

Paolo Giordano

20.

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

21.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

22.

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

McEnroe, John

23.

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

Auerbach, Red

24.

Assurance is two-thirds of success.

Proverb, Gaelic

25.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

26.

Confidence awakens confidence.

Sachsen, Friedrich Von

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Green, Hubert

30.

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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

33.

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

Bradshaw, Terry

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

Pitt, William

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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

36.

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

Johnson, Samuel

37.

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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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

39.

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

40.

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

41.

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Corneille, Pierre

42.

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

44.

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

Maurois, Andre

45.

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

Proverb

46.

Watch my dust.

Ruth, Babe

47.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.

One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

49.

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Hazlitt, William

50.

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