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Quotes about Confidence

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson, English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784)

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, French critic, essayist, & novelist (1869 - 1951)

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, US clergyman (1898 - 1993)

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

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

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

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.
- Arnold Palmer, US golfer (1929 - )

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

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
- Anna Freud, Austrian psychoanalyst & psychologist (1895 - 1982)

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

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