Motivational Quotes

Confidence

Assurance is two-thirds of success.

- Proverb, Gaelic

Best Quotes about Confidence

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Storey, David

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

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

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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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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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

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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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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 courage at ease.

Maher, Daniel

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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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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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Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

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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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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 is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

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

Loehr, Jim

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Green, Hubert

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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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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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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

O'Brien, Michael

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

Bradshaw, Terry

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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Penn, William

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

Paolo Giordano

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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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I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations.

McEnroe, John

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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

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Confidence is a very fragile thing.

Montana, Joe

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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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Assurance is two-thirds of success.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Confidence awakens confidence.

Sachsen, Friedrich Von

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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