Motivational Quotes

Confidence

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

- Smith, Stan

Best Quotes about Confidence

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

One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

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

Smith, Stan

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

Proverb

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

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

Staubach, Roger

I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.

Murphy, Eddie

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

Aristotle

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

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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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The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

McEnroe, John

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

Pitt, William

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Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Paterno, Joe

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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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Confidence is courage at ease.

Maher, Daniel

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

Nastase, Ilie

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Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Hazlitt, William

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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

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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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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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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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Assurance is two-thirds of success.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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 feeling you have before you understand the situation.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hasidic Saying

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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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For they conquer who believe they can.

Dryden, John

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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

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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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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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Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Green, Hubert

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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