Motivational Quotes

Confidence

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

- Paolo Giordano

Best Quotes about Confidence

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

Ali, Muhammad

Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Green, Hubert

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Murphy, Eddie

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

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

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

Lloyd, Chris Evert

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

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

Smith, Stan

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

Nastase, Ilie

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With confidence, you can reach truly amazing heights; without confidence, even the simplest accomplishments are beyond your grasp.

Loehr, Jim

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Penn, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

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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 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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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

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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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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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Confidence is courage at ease.

Maher, Daniel

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

Hasidic Saying

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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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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

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Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

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

Bradshaw, Terry

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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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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

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Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

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Confidence awakens confidence.

Sachsen, Friedrich Von

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