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Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

I do a weird thing when I am nervous where I tilt my head back like I am super confident. This is my...

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I had already made a decision early on that I would be a plain girl with lots of personality, and ac...

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The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the repub...

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It’s well to have such a comfortable assurance regarding the worth of those we love. I only wish you...

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Anne BrontëThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Perhaps middle age is or should be a period of shedding shells the shell of ambition the shell o...

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The only power that exists is inside ourselves.

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Anne RiceInterview with the Vampire

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be...

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Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs w...

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You are quite wrong about him," Felix had said. "He has not been atan English school, or English uni...

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There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthe...

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Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

For there are two reasons why human beings face danger calmly: they may have no experience of it, or...

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AristotleThe Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle

The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative...

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Pride ... is the direct appreciation of oneself.

The people have given me their support they have given me their trust and confidence. My colleagues ...

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Dagny leaned back in her chair. The short sentence was a shock. It was not merely relief: it was the...

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna or it can smooth the edges ...

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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposit...

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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, conf...

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The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his...

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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which ...

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An enemy sees his attackers laughing? It is better than all the insults. A man who laughs as he goes...

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Some party hack decreed that the peoplehad lost the government's confidenceand could only regain it ...

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Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies and will enable h...

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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Yet there’s no one to beat you | No one t’ defeat you | ’Cept the thoughts of yourself feeling bad

Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' t...

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A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal ...

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Brian TracyThe Gift of Self-Confidence

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of...

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If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win.

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

Certainly it would be wonderful if we all knew exactly who we were.

For no matter the shadows of an age, the picture of a young couple in love, we are told, speaks most...

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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and no...

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It was evident that he had nothing around him but the simplest necessaries, for everything that I re...

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Winning isn’t everything, but losing isn’t anything.

One of life's sorest tragedies is that the people who brim with confidence are always the wrong peop...

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Charlie BrookerI Can Make You Hate

I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be...

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I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivi...

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I replied that I did not quite know what my ailment had been, but that I had certainly suffered a go...

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This little man was of the order of beings who must not be opposed, unless you possessed an all-domi...

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However, I must say that I am very happy to see that we have such a positive result for our first re...

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He inclined his head ever so slightly, displaying with his bearing the supreme confidence, even arro...

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Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

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Coco ChanelBelieving in Ourselves: The Wisdom of Women

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you hav...

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You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the p...

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Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If youwant to conquer fear, do...

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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what yo...

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Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, d...

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I feel it's all wrong to be nervous," said Maria. "I feel it's lack of confidence. One ought to go r...

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…It's as if they actually think that what other people think of them somehow doesn't matter. I mean,...

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Be always sure you're right then go ahead.

Her stare was direct and unwavering, full of confidence earned from painful experience...

I was the worst kind of fool. When I look back on that August night, changed forever by all my wound...

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Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, ...

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That surge of power and delight, of confidence, of control. That sudden sense of the richness of the...

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Don't be so damned discouraging," said Wimsey. "I have already carefully explained to you that this ...

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I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to t...

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If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!" (William Strunk) ... Why compound ignorance...

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I had the luxury of knowing what I wanted to do. So I just sat on the bed and came up with a plan fo...

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Eddie IzzardBelieve Me: A Memoir of Love

This new resolve gave her a sort of light-headed self-confidence: when she left the dinner-table she...

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Edith WhartonThe Mother's Recompense

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do...

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because...

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The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.

What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely...

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This is your life, not someone else's. It is your own feeling of what is important, not what people ...

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The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it i...

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I'm glad I never feel important it does complicate life.

More people are ruined by victory I imagine than by defeat.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear ...

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Eleanor RooseveltYou Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.

Miss Benson had the power; which some people have, of carrying her wishes through to fulfillment; he...

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Step forward out of your own lingering residual sense of smallness, take up every inch of life that ...

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We need to have far less confidence in what man can do and far moreconfidence in what God can do for...

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Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends ...

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We never know how high we areTill we are called to rise;And then, if we are true to plan,Our stature...

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I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me...

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It’s almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I’m ...

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Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what.

no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for hersel...

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He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his en...

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I have always loved fashion because it's a great way to express your mood. And I'm definitely a shoe...

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To all my enemies, I will destroy it.

I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who n...

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It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it is ridiculous to show it to others.

Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself.

Would a bird build its nest if it did not have its instinct for confidence in the world?

You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All thin...

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Walk amongst the natives by day, but in your heart be Superman.