CONFIDENCE QUOTES

quotations about confidence

Confidence quote

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

CICERO

Rhetorical Invention


Ignorance and confidence are constant companions.

JOHN MCAFEE

Into the Heart of Truth


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

TERRY BRADSHAW

attributed, Winning Words: Classic Quotes from the World of Sports


Winning becomes easier over time as the cornerstones of confidence become habits.

ROSABETH MOSS KANTER

Confidence


The road to confidence is paved by daily accomplishments.

KEITH JOHNSON

The Confidence Makeover


If we do have realistic confidence ... if we feel secure within ourselves, we tend to experience the world as open to us and to respond appropriately to challenges and opportunities. Self-esteem empowers, ennergizes, motivates. It inspires us to achieve and allows us to take pleasure and pride in our achievements.

NATHANIEL BRANDEN

The Power of Self-Esteem


Confidence is largely dependent on work ethic--the harder you're willing to work at being confident, the more likely you are to be confident.

LEIF H. SMITH & TODD M. KAYS

Sports Psychology For Dummies


The power of self-confidence is derived from having faith in your own ability to create and capture that which you want to achieve. It is a self-confident hunter who will pursue an animal many times bigger and stronger than himself. Likewise, in the world we live in today, no obstacle is too large to overcome, if we have the faith in ourselves to do it.

AARON R. FODIMAN

Tampa Bay Magazine, May/June 2009


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

attributed, Great Quotes from Great Sports Heroes


Hard to feel confident when you’re surrounded by horse-sized wolves.

STEPHENIE MEYER

Breaking Dawn


Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.

ZIG ZIGLAR

attributed, Visualize Confidence


Confidence is a natural life force designed to overcome dark times.

SHEENAH HANKIN

Complete Confidence


I have always felt like you really don't have a genuine confidence unless you demonstrate the ability to do something. You can talk about it, but you have to demonstrate it.

BILL PARCELLS

San Jose Mercury News, Nov. 23, 2006


Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.

CRISS JAMI

Venus in Arms


Confidence ... is the foundation upon which rests the consummation of all Life's many plans.

EDWARD S. ROGERS

"Broadening the Doctrine of Unfair Competition,", Printers' Ink, vol. 88


Who has self-confidence will lead the rest.

HORACE

Epistles


There is no value-judgment more important to a man--no factor more decisive in his psychological development and motivation--than the estimate he passes on himself.

NATHANIEL BRANDEN

The Psychology of Self-Esteem


They can do all because they think they can.

VIRGIL

Aeneid


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

MARCUS GARVEY

Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey


Those enjoying winning streaks thus win twofold. They win not only the game but also the right to greater self-determination. They become masters of their own fate. That feeling of efficacy, of being in charge of circumstances, is the essence of confidence. Winning once or twice is encouraging, but winning continuously is empowering.

ROSABETH MOSS KANTER

Confidence