Motivational Quotes

Confidence

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

- Paterno, Joe

Best Quotes about Confidence

For they conquer who believe they can.

Dryden, John

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Aristotle

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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.

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

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

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

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

Proverb

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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Hazlitt, William

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

Hasidic Saying

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

Paolo Giordano

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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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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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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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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

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

Smith, Stan

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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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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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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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Watch my dust.

Ruth, Babe

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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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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

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

Staubach, Roger

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Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Confidence is courage at ease.

Maher, Daniel

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

Auerbach, Red

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Assurance is two-thirds of success.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Nastase, Ilie

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Penn, William

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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 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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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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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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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

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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

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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.