Motivational Quotes

Confidence

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

- Staubach, Roger

Best Quotes about Confidence

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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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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

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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

4.

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

5.

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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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

7.

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

Hasidic Saying

8.

Confidence awakens confidence.

Sachsen, Friedrich Von

9.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

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

12.

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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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.

14.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

16.

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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You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

Lloyd, Chris Evert

18.

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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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Penn, William

20.

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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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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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

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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

26.

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

Bradshaw, Terry

27.

Watch my dust.

Ruth, Babe

28.

Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.

Storey, David

29.

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

Johnson, Samuel

30.

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

31.

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

32.

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

Paterno, Joe

33.

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

34.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Confidence is courage at ease.

Maher, Daniel

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

Auerbach, Red

40.

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

41.

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

Pitt, William

42.

Confidence is the bond of friendship.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.

Adams, Franklin P.

45.

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

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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.

47.

Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Green, Hubert

48.

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Aristotle