Motivational Quotes

Confidence

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

Best Quotes about Confidence

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Watch my dust.

Ruth, Babe

One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

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

Assurance is two-thirds of success.

Proverb, Gaelic

Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

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

Maurois, Andre

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Confidence is the bond of friendship.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bradshaw, Terry

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

Aristotle

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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

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

Pitt, William

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Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Green, Hubert

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Smith, Stan

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

Hasidic Saying

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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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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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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

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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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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