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Quotes about Confidence


The trouble with ignorance is that it picks up confidence as it goes along.

Arnold Glasow

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

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

Jerry Burt

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.

Saiom Confucius

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

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

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

John Storey

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Pierre Corneille

Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Hubert Green

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

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

Abraham Lincoln

I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends call it.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Franklin P. Adams

One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Lord Alfred Boiste

In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.

Thomas Jefferson

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

His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

Bible

Don't place too much confidence in the man who boasts of being as honest as the day is long. Wait until you meet him at night.

Robert C. Edwards

Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give; And in the light of truth thy Bondman let me live!

William Wordsworth

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Robert Frost

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

B. C. Forbes

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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