quotations about confidence
Ignorance and confidence are constant companions.
JOHN MCAFEE
Into the Heart of Truth
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
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
Winning becomes easier over time as the cornerstones of confidence become habits.
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER
Confidence
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
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
The road to confidence is paved by daily accomplishments.
KEITH JOHNSON
The Confidence Makeover
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
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
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
Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.
CRISS JAMI
Venus in Arms
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
They can do all because they think they can.
VIRGIL
Aeneid
Confidence is a natural life force designed to overcome dark times.
SHEENAH HANKIN
Complete Confidence
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
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
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
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