Best short confidence quotes and sayings - Self confident quotations

Confidence is generally described as a state of being certain either that a hypothesis or prediction is correct or that a chosen course of action is the best or most effective. Self confidence is having confidence in one's self. Let's see the best confident quotations with 2quotes.net to being confident.

Confidence is key

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'

_Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

_Anna Freud (1895 - 1982)

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

_Arnold Bennett

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

_Arnold Palmer (1929 - )

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

If I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle.

_David Nicholls, One Day, 2010

The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.

_Hasidic Saying

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

_Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887

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 (1898 - 1993)

Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

_Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, November 2009

Feeling special is the worst kind of cage a person can build for himself.

_Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers: A Novel

It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.

_Philip Adams

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

_Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

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

_Rosalynn Carter (1927 - )

You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know to be arrogant about it.

_Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

_Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.

_Scott Berkun, Confessions of a Public Speaker, 2009

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

_Shakti Gawain

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

_Sophia Loren (1934 - )

You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path.

_Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005

Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion. 

_Tina Fey, Vogue Interview, 2010

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