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Confidence |
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| "Self-confidence is the first requisite to
great undertakings." |
| -- Samuel Johnson |
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| "As is our confidence, so is our
capacity." |
| -- William Hazlett |
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| "It's not what you are that holds you
back, it's what you think you are not." |
| -- Denis Waitley |
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| "Only
the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one
who can face novelty with confidence and without fear." |
| -- Abraham
Maslow (1908-70), American psychologist, founder humanistic psychology |
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| "Kindness
in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love." |
| -- Mao Tse-tung (1893-1976) |
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| "Life
is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and
above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for
something and that this thing must be attained." |
| -- Marie
Curie (1867-1934), [Manja Sklodowska] Polish-born French chemist |
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| "Education
is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or
your self-confidence." |
| -- Robert Lee Frost (1874-1963),
American poet, "A Boy's Will", "In the Clearing" |
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"You
gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you
really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you
think you cannot do."
-- (Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt
(1884-1962), American diplomat, writer, US First Lady |
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| "The
way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a
record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of
chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it
is a thing to be achieved." |
| -- William Jennings Bryant
(1860-1925), Writer, essayist, critic |
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| "Your
confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related
to your self-confidence and your self-doubt." |
| -- Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931),
Lebanese-born American mystic poet, painter |
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| “Immense power is acquired by assuring
yourselves in your secret reveries that you were born to control
affairs.” |
| -- Andrew Carnegie |
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| "I
don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act
confident every time I hit the stage. I am consumed with the fear of
failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams
come true." |
| -- Arsenio Hall, Entertainer |
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| "There is a wisdom in insecurity. However,
there is no peace without confidence. If you are giving your best,
you have every reason to be confident, to be peaceful. Confidence
does not entail knowledge of success, only nobility of purpose.
Insecurity may be your wisest companion if your goals are set
high." |
| -- Albert Emerson Unaterra (1952-2002),
American writer |
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| "When
you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you
can do amazing things." |
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-- Joe
Namath |
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| "Self-confidence is the first requisite to
great undertakings." |
| -- Samuel Johnson |
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“Whether you think you can or
think you can't, you are right.” |
| -- Henry Ford |
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| “I
never criticize a player until they are first convinced of my
unconditional confidence in their abilities.” |
| -- John Robinson |
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| "We must be our own before we can be
another's." |
| -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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"When
you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you."
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--
Lao-Tzu
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| "It
is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which
we have even once been deceived." |
| -- Rene Descartes, French philosopher |
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| "Be
courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well
tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a
plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of
adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." |
| -- George Washington, American President |
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| "The
confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that
which we have in others." |
| -- Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
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| "You
are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one
is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know
it is going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to
political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, its
always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt." |
| -- Robert
M. Pirsig |
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| "In
light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter
of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much
trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their
intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the
final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can
understand it." |
| -- Albert Einstein (1875-1955),
German-born American theoretical physicist |
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