Motivational Quotes

Confidence

Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.

- West, Jerry

Best Quotes about Confidence

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

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Anna Freud

Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

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

Nastase, Ilie

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Auerbach, Red

Confidence is the bond of friendship.

Syrus, Publilius

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

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

Paolo Giordano

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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Hazlitt, William

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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 is a very fragile thing.

Montana, Joe

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One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

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

Aristotle

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

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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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Assurance is two-thirds of success.

Proverb, Gaelic

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For they conquer who believe they can.

Dryden, John

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

Pitt, William

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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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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

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

Bradshaw, Terry

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

Proverb

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

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

Staubach, Roger

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

Hasidic Saying

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Confidence is courage at ease.

Maher, Daniel

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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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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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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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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