Motivational Quotes

Confidence

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

Best Quotes about Confidence

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

Shakti Gawain

Assurance is two-thirds of success.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Paterno, Joe

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

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

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Polanski, Roman

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

Paterno, Joe

Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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 a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.

Pitt, William

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

Hasidic Saying

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Aristotle

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

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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 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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One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

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For they conquer who believe they can.

Dryden, John

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

Paolo Giordano

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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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Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

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

Nastase, Ilie

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

Bradshaw, Terry

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Confidence is courage at ease.