Confidence Quotes

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

Brian Adams

Tell no one the secret that you want to keep, although he may be worthy of confidence; for no one will be so careful of your secret as yourself.

Saadi, On the Duties of Society

Were there but one virtuous man in the world, he would hold up his head with confidence and honor; he would shame the world, and not the world him.

South

It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.

Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Magazine, May 2004

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

Rosalynn Carte

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - True equals - Only when they both have equal confidence.

Arthur S. Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

I have nothing but confidence in you. And very little of that.

Groucho Marx

Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson