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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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Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a wil...

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I can do anything. I can be anything. No one ever told me I couldn't. No one ever expressed this ide...

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He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own vi...

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The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experi...

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Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with ...

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The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate of a Repu...

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It’s such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is ...

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Zadie SmithChanging My Mind: Occasional Essays

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.

I never stop myself from doing something because I’m afraid of what people might think.

When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage a...

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If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. Yo...

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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and e...

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The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to unders...

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Adam SmithThe Theory of Moral Sentiments

Katie Price is no exception. She, too, is - in a distinctive way - a philosopher. Partially, Katie P...

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He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on p...

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A fundamental truth, is that there is simply no such thing as an inherently boring person or thing. ...

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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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