Motivational Quotes

Confidence

Assurance is two-thirds of success.

- Proverb, Gaelic

Best Quotes about Confidence

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

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Confidence is courage at ease.

Maher, Daniel

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

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

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

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

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 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

11.

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

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

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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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Watch my dust.

Ruth, Babe

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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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One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

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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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Assurance is two-thirds of success.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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

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

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

Bradshaw, Terry

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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

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

Maurois, Andre

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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

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

Proverb

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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

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

Paolo Giordano

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Hazlitt, William

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Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

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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

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

Loehr, Jim

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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Penn, William

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

Pitt, William

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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.

44.

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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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Aristotle