Confidence Quotes

I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done.
Robert Downey, Jr.

Power, Forward, Moving

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
Michel de Montaigne

Good, Another, Goodness

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.
Fred Durst

Great, Yourself, Bad

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.
William Congreve

Integrity, Others, Shows

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
Brian Tracy

Whatever, Expect, Prophecy

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

May, Difficult, Easy

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
Diane Arbus

Control, Give, Try

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.
Michelle Obama

Success, Country, Whether

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
Samuel Johnson

Angry, Him, Makes

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.
Tom Landry

Good, Game, Play

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Mary Kay Ash

Success, Honesty, Ability

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

God, Light, Another

I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue.
Jimmy Carter

Lie, Betray, Tell

In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.
Carter G. Woodson

Money, Fact, Worth

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.
Epicurus

When you look good, you feel good. Confidence with what you're wearing is very important. If you feel good, you will always perform your best without worrying about anything.
Maria Sharapova

Good, Best, Important

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
Oswald Chambers

Power, Knowledge, Reality

Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.
Johnny Unitas

Yourself, Job, Done

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
William Hazlitt

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
James Madison

Union, Religious, Surprising

I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
Francois Rabelais

God, Hope, Strength

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
Desmond Tutu

Peace, Courage, Hate

Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.
John H. Johnson

Dreams, Small, Big

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
Gary Ryan Blair

Respect, Fear, Failure

Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.
Virgil

Find, Cannot, Place

The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.
Carter G. Woodson

Money, Long, Keep

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
Hedy Lamarr

Time, Great, Freedom

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
Tennessee Williams

Wine, Appear, Noon

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

Work, Days, Result

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
Ovid

Slow, Claim, Magnitude

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