Confidence quotes

Unlock your inner strength with empowering quotes on confidence. Inspire yourself and others to believe in their abilities and embrace their true potential.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

- Abraham Lincoln

I had very little confidence in myself as an actress.

- Maude Adams

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

- Chris Evert

I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.

- Gareth Gates

The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.

- Arthur Erickson

I was feeling a lot of confidence, so I wanted to take advantage of that and keep playing.

- Gabriela Sabatini

Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.

- David Storey

With confidence, you have won before you have started.

- Marcus Garvey

Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.

- Arnold Palmer

I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy.

- Chen Shui-bian

To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.

- Timothy Radcliffe

When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.

- DeForest Soaries

And in doing this I advise you to send to the best manors of your lands those of your household in whom you place most confidence to be present in August at the leading of the corn, and to guard it as aforesaid.

- Robert Grosseteste

If you serve well, your volleys are going to be so much easier. It has got to do with confidence, obviously.

- Stefan Edberg

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

- William Congreve

It definitely helps to have been through the arm training flow before and to have used the arm on orbit, and it also gives me the confidence to know that our training facilities are really good, that when you get up there, you feel like you've been there.

- Linda M. Godwin

The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions.

- Lord Mountbatten

Credit... is the only enduring testimonial to man's confidence in man.

- James Blish

Not to this extent but from day one I had an awful lot of confidence when I got started.

- George Thorogood

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.

- Saul Bellow

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

- Brian Tracy

To be a good model, I'd need a lot more confidence... and more confidence to be more bare.

- Jill Hennessy

Well, I am a Republican, and I would run as a Republican. And I have a lot of confidence in the Republican Party. I don't have a lot of confidence in the president.

- Donald Trump

And I might add the confidence with which distracted persons do oftentimes, when they are awake, think, they see black fiends in places, where there is no black object in sight without them.

- Robert Boyle

I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.

- Lajos Kossuth

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

- Epicurus

We must regain the confidence and drive to decide our own destiny.

- Moo-hyum Roh

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.

- Arthur Helps

I am disposed to be thus particular from the interest you take in our welfare and from the entire confidence I have in your knowing, that you will be sympathetic with us in our misfortunes.

- John Hawley

Confidence-building is not something that can go on forever. If it goes on forever then it becomes counterproductive.

- Daw Aung San Suu Kyi