Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Confidence

God knows best; he hasn't arranged your anatomy so as to make it easy for you to pat yourself on the back.

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

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

Aristotle

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Confidence is the bond of friendship.

Syrus, Publilius

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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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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One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

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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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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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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Hazlitt, William

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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

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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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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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Watch my dust.

Ruth, Babe

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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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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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Confidence awakens confidence.

Sachsen, Friedrich Von

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Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb

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Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

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Assurance is two-thirds of success.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Confidence is courage at ease.

Maher, Daniel

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Smith, Stan

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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Penn, William

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Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Green, Hubert

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

Hasidic Saying

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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