Confidence Quotes - Page 13

• Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

  Anthony Trollope

  Life, Self Esteem, Self Worth

  "Orley Farm".

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• A timid question will always receive a confident answer.

  Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling

  Political, Answers

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• Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.

  Benjamin Spock

  Wisdom, Children, Destiny

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• The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.

  Kathleen Turner

  Actors, Gaps, Bigs

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• People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.

  Saadi

  Loving Yourself, Sight, Feet

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• If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Love You, Acceptance, Loving Yourself

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• Growing up, I started developing confidence in what I felt. My parents helped me to believe in myself. I wasn't the best looking guy, I wasn't the best athlete in the world, but they made me feel good about myself.

  Herschel Walker

  Sports, Growing Up, Believe

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• One's self-image is very important because if that's in good shape, then you can do anything, or practically anything.

  John Gielgud

  Self, Important, Shapes

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• When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Strong Women, Courage, Fear

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• All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.

  Charles Dickens

  Wonder, Evoke, Circumstances

  Charles Dickens (1859). “All the Year Round”, p.553

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• A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves a number of obscure men who have only remained obscure because their timidity has prevented them from making a first effort; and who, if they could only have been induced to begin, would in all probability have gone great lengths in the career of fame.

  Sydney Smith

  Courage, Nature, Fear

  "Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy".

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• Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Self, Expectations

  Twitter post from Oct 6, 2014

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• Many men are like unto sausages: Whatever you stuff them with, that they will bear in them.

  Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy

  Men, Sausage, Stuff

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• When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Gun, People, Hatred

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• A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader,
  a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Leadership, People

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• Do continue to believe that with your feeling and with your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief, the more will reality and world go forth from it.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Believe, Reality, Feelings

  "Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910".

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• No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly.

  Protagoras

  Wisdom, Believe, Intelligent

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• The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Men, Mind, Inquiring

  Dennis v. United States, 241 U.S. 494, 556, 1951.

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• Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

  Honore de Balzac

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Peace

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• Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Assumption, Presumptuous

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

  William Congreve

  Integrity, Views, Ears

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• Research has shown over and over again that the more you acknowledge your past successes, the more confident you become in taking on and successfully accomplishing new ones.

  Jack Canfield

  Success, Self Esteem, Past

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Aug 08, 2013

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

  Eoin Colfer

  Humorous, Cocky, Ignorance

  Eoin Colfer (2001). “Artemis Fowl”

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• As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Life, Trust

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• Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

  Ralph Marston

  Reality, Doing Your Best

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