Motivational Quotes

Confidence

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

- Samuel Johnson

Best Quotes about Confidence

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

For they conquer who believe they can.

Dryden, John

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

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.

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

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

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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 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 is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

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

Nastase, Ilie

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

Johnson, Samuel

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One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

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Confidence is courage at ease.

Maher, Daniel

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

Hasidic Saying

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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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 a very fragile thing.

Montana, Joe

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Assurance is two-thirds of success.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Confidence is the bond of friendship.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Paolo Giordano