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The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause...

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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in you...

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What I find powerful is a person withthe confidence to be her own self.

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in t...

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When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you becom...

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...If there's one thing I'm well versed in it's my own good qualities.

The only thing she could do now was to shed a few tears, feeling rather afraid of herself, an intell...

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Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.

The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people.

A lot of people, when a guy scores a lot of goals, think, 'He's a great player', because a goal is v...

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, ther...

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Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.

I have always felt strongly about empowering women. I'm living proof that, with confidence and by be...

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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly...

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One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger m...

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The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assuranc...

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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.

Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself and you b...

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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, tha...

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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as...

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What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence...

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I have lost confidence in myself.

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Robert Louis StevensonThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Once they got into the idea of seeing directly for themselves they also saw there was no limit to th...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

A very disturbing feature of overconfidence is that it often appears to be poorly associated with kn...

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Robert TriversDeceit and Self-Deception: Fooling Yourself the Better to Fool Others

Society is built upon trust.

Years ago, a member of Congress slipped a laminated quote into my hand that he must have thought I w...

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Ron PaulLiberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom

Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of ...

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Our self-conceit sustains and always must sustain us.

I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wro...

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Our self-conceit sustains and always must sustain us.

I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wro...

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Our self-conceit sustains and always must sustain us.

I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wro...

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Our self-conceit sustains and always must sustain us.

I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wro...

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Our self-conceit sustains and always must sustain us.

I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wro...

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Our self-conceit sustains and always must sustain us.

I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wro...

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Our self-conceit sustains and always must sustain us.

I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wro...

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Our self-conceit sustains and always must sustain us.

I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wro...

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There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

Once you tell a man he's pretty, there's no taking it back. They think they're pretty all the time, ...

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Everyone has attitude, and I think everyone should have attitude. But I know I have attitude, but th...

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What was it like to be so confident even in your failings that you weren't the least bit bothered wh...

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When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I sho...

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I thought we were celebrating being richer and cleverer than everyone else!

Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be s...

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If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders how is...

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If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling,...

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I have, as it were, constructed a lay-figure for the purposes of a demonstration which I desired to ...

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Sigmund FreudNew Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

In his fight against the powers of the surrounding world his first weapon was magic, the first forer...

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Sigmund FreudNew Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

Humility is attentive patience.

Seeing my mother get back to her studies was all the proof I needed that a chain of emotion can pers...

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... a surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence. Page 115

That tide of insecurity would come in and out over the years, sometimes stranding me for a while but...

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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind your talents the creativity you bring to your life a...

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Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.

If we feel secureIn the depths of our heart,We shall not challenge anybody,For inner confidenceIs no...

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Sri ChinmoyThe Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace

You have to understand your best. Your best isn't Barrymore's best or Olivier's best or my best, but...

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Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

Hard to feel confident when you’re surrounded by horse-sized wolves. - Emmett Cullen

Oh yes. I'd do it all again the spirit is willing yet I feel the same desire to do the work but t...

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The older I get the greater power I seem to have to help the world I am like a snowball-the furthe...

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You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no o...

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So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding qui...

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Sylvia PlathJohnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories

... he will seek vainly to the right and to the left and in the newspapers for a guarantee that he h...

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Søren KierkegaardRepetition and Philosophical Crumbs

To country people Cows are mild,And flee from any stick they throw;But I’m a timid town bred child,A...

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Well, laddie, if you've let an old buzzard like me hurt you confidence, you couldn't have had much i...

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Tamora PierceAlanna: The First Adventure

Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear

There are times when I'm caught up in everything and I have to say to myself, "Please feel good; ple...

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...Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mount...

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Walking purposefully, in the knowledge that no one with their sleeves rolled up who walks purposeful...

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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

Perhaps I am stronger than I think.

The world is likely to view any temporary extension of the income tax cuts for the top two percent a...

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You have to let people see what you wrote. It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated.

He can't value you more than you value yourself.

I've always seen myself as a winner even as a kid. If I hadn't I just might have gone down the dra...

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I love the confidence that makeup gives me.

I am less blindly confident than I once was, for I have been learning a truer estimate of myself, my...

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I am selfish. I am brave.

He had the confidence of a man who had never been wounded.

I think the sexiest thing about a woman is confidence, but confidence in a humble way, not in an arr...

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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Philip looked at his own work. How could you tell whether there was anything in it or whether you we...

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This the touch of my lips to yours, this the murmur of yearning,   This the far-off depth and height...

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Jobs also used the meetings to enforce focus. At Robert Friedland's farm, his job had been to prune ...

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I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience see...

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