Motivational Quotes

Confidence

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

Best Quotes about Confidence

One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

Courage comes from wanting to do it well. Security comes from knowing you can do it well. Confidence comes from having done it well.

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

I don't feel any pressure. I just try to stay calm, follow my game plan and try not to overthrown.

Gooden, Dwight

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

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

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

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

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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Watch my dust.

Ruth, Babe

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb

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Assurance is two-thirds of success.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Hasidic Saying

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Confidence is the bond of friendship.

Syrus, Publilius

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Confidence awakens confidence.

Sachsen, Friedrich Von

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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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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Penn, William

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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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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Hazlitt, William

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

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

Bradshaw, Terry

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

Nastase, Ilie

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

Ali, Muhammad

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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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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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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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For they conquer who believe they can.

Dryden, John

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Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Corneille, Pierre

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Confidence is a very fragile thing.

Montana, Joe

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

Pitt, William

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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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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