Motivational Quotes

Confidence

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best Quotes about Confidence

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

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

McEnroe, John

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

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

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

Assurance is two-thirds of success.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Aristotle

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

Hasidic Saying

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Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Corneille, Pierre

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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 lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.

West, Jerry

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Bradshaw, Terry

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

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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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Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

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Confidence is the bond of friendship.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Proverb

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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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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 awakens confidence.

Sachsen, Friedrich Von

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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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For they conquer who believe they can.

Dryden, John

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

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

Pitt, William

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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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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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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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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 the feeling you have before you understand the situation.

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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