Quotes about confidence

Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.

— Franklin P. Adams

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

— Joseph Addison

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Aristotle

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

— Red Auerbach

One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

— Boiste

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.

— Christian Nevell Bovee

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

— Terry Bradshaw

Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.

— Phillips Brooks

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.

— JoAnne Carner

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

— Marcus T. Cicero

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

— Marcus T. Cicero

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

— Pierre Corneille

For they conquer who believe they can.

— John Dryden

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

— Maria Edgeworth

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

— Marcus Garvey

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

— Dwight Gooden

Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

— Hubert Green

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.

— J. C. Hare

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

— William Hazlitt

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

— Homer

In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.

— St. John of the Cross

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.

— Earvin ''Magic'' Johnson

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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.

— Ann Landers

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Chris Evert Lloyd

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

— Jim Loehr

Confidence is courage at ease.

— Daniel Maher

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.

— Orison Swett Marden

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

— Andre Maurois

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

— John McEnroe

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

— Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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

— Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Confidence is a very fragile thing.

— Joe Montana

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

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

— Eddie Murphy

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

— Ilie Nastase

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.

— Jack Nicklaus

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

— Michael O'Brien

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

— Ovid

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

— Joe Paterno

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

— Joe Paterno

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

— William Penn

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

— William Pitt

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

— Roman Polanski

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

— Proverb

Assurance is two-thirds of success.

— Gaelic Proverb

If you are prepared, then you are able to feel confident.

— Robert J. Ringer

Watch my dust.

— Babe Ruth

Confidence awakens confidence.

— Friedrich Von Sachsen

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

— Stan Smith

Confidence is the result of hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

— Roger Staubach

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.

— Roger Staubach

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

— David Storey

Confidence is the bond of friendship.

— Publilius Syrus

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.

— Brian Tracy

I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will?

— Johnny Unitas

There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

— Johnny Unitas

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

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

The values of the Walt Disney company: The four C s: Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, Consistency, and the greatest of these is Confidence.

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

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

— Jerry West

Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.

— Virginia Woolf

His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time.

— Dejan Stojanovic

We can lose everything, but self-confidence.

— Mak Kazeronnie

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

— Anna Freud

Give the people --- confidence. Give the people --- delight. Give the people --- hope. Give the people --- the best.

— Buddha

When calamities end, there comes end to life. So, I sought gimmick to make pleasure from them.

— mirza sharafat hussain zarafshan