Competence is confidence — sweating.
One-tenth of confidence is looking good; nine-tenths is being good.
Praise is without, confidence within.
Eat defeat; master disaster.
Arrogance brags and struts; confidence bows and putts.
The insecure seek assurances; the intrepid make them.
Life’s furnace burns up sureness, but the wise recover by doing the next right thing.
The confident prepare their wings and fly; the anxious rush it, wing it and die.
Confidence is found in success — not breath.
Three things give us confidence, four even more: Work that has meaning, people who believe in us, food that gives us strength and a God who sings and dances over us.
Modern Thought Proverbs, Aphorisms and Epigrams 