Motivational Quotes

Confidence

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Confidence

1.

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

2.

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''

3.

One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

4.

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

Aristotle

5.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

6.

Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

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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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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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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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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

14.

Confidence is the bond of friendship.

Syrus, Publilius

15.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

17.

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

Smith, Stan

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

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

Murphy, Eddie

20.

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

Gooden, Dwight

21.

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

West, Jerry

22.

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

Storey, David

23.

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

Bradshaw, Terry

24.

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

Hasidic Saying

25.

Confidence is courage at ease.

Maher, Daniel

26.

Confidence awakens confidence.

Sachsen, Friedrich Von

27.

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

Paolo Giordano

28.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Penn, William

29.

Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge. To show that I could.

Polanski, Roman

30.

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

Proverb

31.

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

32.

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

Auerbach, Red

33.

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

Maurois, Andre

34.

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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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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Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Corneille, Pierre

37.

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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Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Green, Hubert

39.

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

Lloyd, Chris Evert

40.

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

Paterno, Joe

41.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

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

44.

Confidence is a very fragile thing.

Montana, Joe

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For they conquer who believe they can.

Dryden, John

46.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph