Motivational Quotes

Confidence

Confidence awakens confidence.

- Sachsen, Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Confidence

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

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

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

Lloyd, Chris Evert

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

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

Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.

Adams, Franklin P.

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

Confidence is a very fragile thing.

Montana, Joe

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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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 the bond of friendship.

Syrus, Publilius

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One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

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

Aristotle

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Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Confidence awakens confidence.

Sachsen, Friedrich Von

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

Pitt, William

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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Penn, William

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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

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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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Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.

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For they conquer who believe they can.

Dryden, John

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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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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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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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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

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

Staubach, Roger

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Nastase, Ilie

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

Smith, Stan

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Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De