Confidence Quotes
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Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them. (Quote by - Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com)
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. (Quote by - Epicurus)
Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning. (Quote by - Hubert Green)
People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet. (Quote by - Sa'Di)
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go. (Quote by - Dr. Seuss)
Assurance is two-thirds of success. (Quote by - Gaelic Proverb)
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. (Quote by - Thomas Alva Edison)
Success breeds confidence. (Quote by - Beryl Markham)
A timid question will always receive a confident answer. (Quote by - Lord Darling)
Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows. (Quote by - John Powell)
Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. (Quote by - Joseph Wood Krutch)
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. (Quote by - Edmund Hillary)
Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children. (Quote by - Phillips Brooks)
Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours. (Quote by - Richard Bach, Illusions)
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. (Quote by - Paul Tillich)
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. (Quote by - David Brinkley)
Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die. (Quote by - Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960)
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle. (Quote by - John Bunyan)
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
For they conquer who believe they can. (Quote by - John Dryden)
There are offences given and offences not given but taken. (Quote by - Izaak Walton)
The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return. (Quote by - Maria Edgeworth)
Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960)
Many men are like unto sausages: Whatever you stuff them with, that they will bear in them. (Quote by - Alexi Konstantinovich Tolstoy)
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly. (Quote by - Buckminster Fuller)
What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level. (Quote by - Max L. Forman)
Humor comes from self-confidence. There's an aggressive element to wit. (Quote by - Rita Mae Brown)
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. (Quote by - William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, 1604)
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right. (Quote by - Henry Ford)
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. (Quote by - Sally Field)
How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it. (Quote by - Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com)
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. (Quote by - Norman Vincent Peale)
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. (Quote by - Lao-tzu)
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie Which we ascribe to heaven. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground. (Quote by - Henrik Ibsen)
I've spent most of my life walking under that hovering cloud, jealousy, whose acid raindrops blurred my vision and burned holes in my heart. Once I learned to use the umbrella of confidence, the skies cleared up for me and the sunshine called joy became my faithful companion. (Quote by - Astrid Alauda)
Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960)
I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends call it. (Quote by - Edgar Allan Poe)
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it. (Quote by - Stan Smith)
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)
Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heart-ache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, to discover what is already there. (Quote by - Henry Miller, Sexus)
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. (Quote by - Marcus Garvey)
Confidence is the bond of friendship. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do. (Quote by - Olin Miller)
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. (Quote by - African Proverb)
As soon Seek roses in December, ice in June; Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff; Believe a woman or an epitaph, Or any other thing that's false, before You trust in critics. (Quote by - George Gordon, Lord Byron, "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers")
Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got. (Quote by - Sophia Loren)
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor. (Quote by - Nicholas de Chamfort)
I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down. (Quote by - Allen H. Neuharth)
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. (Quote by - Bruce Barton)
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. (Quote by - Louisa May Alcott)
Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong. (Quote by - Peter T. Mcintyre)
We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960)
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. (Quote by - J. C. Hare)
We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies. (Quote by - Roderick Thorp, Rainbow Drive)
Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960)
Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too. (Quote by - David Storey)
Don't let anyone steal your dream. It's your dream, not theirs. (Quote by - Dan Zadra)
They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers. (Quote by - Christian Bovee)
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees. (Quote by - E.F. Schumacher)
Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. (Quote by - Les Brown)
Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic. (Quote by - Jean Sibelius)
The trouble with ignorance is that it picks up confidence as it goes along. (Quote by - Arnold Glasow)
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. (Quote by - Roger Staubach)
I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair. (Quote by - Anaïs Nin)
Spirit can walk, spirit can swim, spirit can climb, spirit can crawl. There is no terrain you cannot overcome. (Quote by - Irisa Hail)
Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee. (Quote by - William Penn)
Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame. (Quote by - Thomas à Kempis)
Mediocrity is a hand-rail. (Quote by - Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, Mes pensées)
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. (Quote by - Joanne Carner)
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
A little birdie flew overhead a traffic light of green and red. From her diagonal point of view she saw both crimson and lime hue. Obey traffic rules? Birdies need not. Masters listen only to the inner voice of God. (Quote by - Saiom Shriver)
Confidence is courage at ease. (Quote by - Daniel Maher)
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. (Quote by - Vincent Van Gogh)
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence. (Quote by - Michael O'Brien)
It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to. (Quote by - W.C. Fields)
Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge. (Quote by - George Santayana, Character and Opinion in the United States, 1921)
The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves. (Quote by - Ellen Goodman)
It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. (Quote by - Sally Kempton, Esquire, 1970)
Danger breeds best on too much confidence. (Quote by - Pierre Corneille)
Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway. (Quote by - Mary Kay Ash)
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. (Quote by - Michael Jordan)
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you. (Quote by - Nicholai Velimirovic)
Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control. (Quote by - Richard Kline)
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. (Quote by - Marcus Garvey)
There are 3 elements essential in the matters of the State, Food, Military equipment, and Confidence of the people in the ruler. Of these 3, Military Equipment is the least important, Food being the 2nd important, and Confidence of the people being the MOST important. All men rather die of starvation than in war, but nevertheless all men do die of old age. Lacking in Confidence from the people, a state cannot survive. (Quote by - Confucius)
Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot. (Quote by - Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly)
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled. (Quote by - Andrew Carnegie)
I slept and dreamed that life was beauty.I awoke -- and found that life was duty. (Quote by - Ellen Stugis Hooper)
He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted. (Quote by - -auerbach)
Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. (Quote by - Veronica A. Shoffstall, "After a While," 1971)
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
If I am not for myself, who will be? (Quote by - Pirke Avoth)
Men harm others by their deeds, themselves by their thoughts. (Quote by - Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827)
Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness. (Quote by - Ram Dass)
I'm not old enough to play baseball or football. I'm not eight yet. My mom told me when you start baseball, you aren't going to be able to run that fast because you had an operation. I told Mom I wouldn't need to run that fast. When I play baseball, I'll just hit them out of the park. Then I'll be able to walk. (Quote by - Edward J. McGrath, Jr., "An Exceptional View of Life," quoted in Chicken Soup for the Soul by Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen, 1993)
Self-love seems so often unrequited. (Quote by - Anthony Powell)
Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. (Quote by - Wendy Wasserstein)
Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't. (Quote by - Jerry West)
I don't feel any pressure. I just try to stay calm, follow my game plan and try not to overthrown. (Quote by - Dwight Gooden)
True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man. (Quote by - Burt)
Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference. (Quote by - Tom Watson)
The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others. (Quote by - Sonya Friedman)
You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose. (Quote by - Lou Holtz and John Heisler, The Fighting Spirit)
All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature)
I am not a has-been. I am a will be. (Quote by - Lauren Bacall)
Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. (Quote by - Richard L. Evans)
A gold medal is a nice thing - but if you're not enough without it, you'll never be enough with it. (Quote by - From Cool Runnings)
Knock the "t" off the "can't." (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. (Quote by - André Dubus)
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that ... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it. (Quote by - John Lennon)
Only as high as I reach can I grow, Only as far as I seek can I go, Only as deep as I look can I see, Only as much as I dream can I be. (Quote by - Karen Ravn)
Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to. (Quote by - Franklin P. Adams)
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. (Quote by - Arthur Ashe)
When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that they take better care of it there. (Quote by - Cecil Selig)
Confidence awakens confidence. (Quote by - Friedrich Von Sachsen)
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. (Quote by - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross)
It's me who is my enemy Me who beats me up Me who makes the monsters Me who strips my confidence. (Quote by - Paula Cole)
Never dull your shine for somebody else. (Quote by - Tyra Banks)
