Supreme Confidence Quotes

• Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Inspirational, Confidence, Determination

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• If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

  Marcus Garvey

  Confidence, Race, Self

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.12, Ravenio Books

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• When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

  Joe Paterno

  Teamwork, Confidence, Reality

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• The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

  Joe Paterno

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

  Joe Paterno

  Sports, Confidence, Football

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  Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

  Tom Landry

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.

  Joe Paterno

  Life, Uplifting, Running

  "We were..." by Wright Thompson, www.espn.com. November 24, 2011.

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• Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

  Potter Stewart

  Freedom Of Speech, Society, Censorship In Books

  "United States v. Ginzburg, 383 U.S. 463". Dissenting opinion, 1965.

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• Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

  Mao Zedong

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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  If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Walden". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.

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• Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Motivational, Confidence

  Samuel Johnson (1804). “The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland: And a Criticism on Their Works”, p.500

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• Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.

  Joe Paterno

  Softball, Sports, Running

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• Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that's too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.

  Dick Cavett

  Strong, Anxiety, Ego

  Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.239, Henry Holt and Company

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• David impresses by his example on the field. He never stops running, he plays with supreme confidence, he always tries his hardest and he scores important goals. 
  (on David Beckham)

  Alex Ferguson

  Running, Play, Scotland

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• There is no week, nor day, nor hour, when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their supreme confidence in themselves, and lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. Tyranny may always enter—there is no charm or bar against it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, People, Bars

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• Duane Allman was bursting with energy ... he was a force to be reckoned with. His drive and focus, as well as his intense belief in himself and our band, was incredible. He knew we were going to make it. We all knew we were a good band, but no one had that supreme confidence like he did, and it was a great thing, because his confidence and enthusiam were infectious... it says a lot that his hero was Muhammad Ali. That kind of supreme confidence that Ali had - that's where Duane was coming from

  Richard Betts

  Music, Hero, Focus

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• He inclined his head ever so slightly, displaying with his bearing the supreme confidence, even arrogance, that is the sole providence of cats, dragons, and certain highborn women.

  Christopher Paolini

  Cat, Dragons, Arrogance

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.2358, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I love hip-hop. I'm big into Jay-Z, Kanye, Little Wayne. Those are everyone's favorites, I know. I just like the fact that when they get on track and talk about whatever they're talking about, they have supreme confidence. That's pretty much what you need to have on the field. I like the way they approach their music, they feel like no one can touch them.

  Nate Burleson

  Talking, Track, Hip Hop

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