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

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

Hasidic Saying

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Confidence is a very fragile thing.

Montana, Joe

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge. To show that I could.

Polanski, Roman

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

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

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

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

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

Nastase, Ilie

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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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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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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Hazlitt, William

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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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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

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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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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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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

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Watch my dust.

Ruth, Babe

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

Paolo Giordano

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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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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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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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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

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Confidence is the bond of friendship.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Auerbach, Red

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Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

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

Proverb

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

Pitt, William

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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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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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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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Assurance is two-thirds of success.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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 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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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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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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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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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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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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

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For they conquer who believe they can.

Dryden, John

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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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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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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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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