Confidence Quotes - Page 20

• We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.

  Octavia Butler

  Climbing, Permit, Higher

  Octavia E. Butler (2011). “Bloodchild and Other Stories”, p.149, Seven Stories Press

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• Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach.

  James Wolfe

  Rocks, Enemy, Gains

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• For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum

  Floyd Patterson

  Sports, Train Hard, Maximum

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• Poise and indifference so often look the same.

  Sue Grafton

  Looks, Indifference, Poise

  Sue Grafton (2010). “J is for Judgement”, p.236, Pan Macmillan

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• Right now I have more confidence in myself. I grew up.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Amelie, Grew Up, Right Now

  The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.

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• I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.

  Lucille Ball

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.

  Alan Shearer

  Sports, Games, Lines

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• The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.

  Sven-Goran Eriksson

  Inspirational, Motivation, Fear

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

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Causes, Action, Face Your Fears

  Norman Vincent Peale (1996). “Power of the Plus Factor”, Ballantine Books

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• You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

  Brian Tracy

  Success, Leadership, Motivation

  Twitter post from Nov 22, 2015

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• You do not need to let anything get you down, but if you are down you certainly need not let anything keep you down.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Needs, Ifs

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Positive Principle Today”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

  Pablo Picasso

  Mother, Encouragement, Work

  "Life with Picasso" by François Gilot, (p. 60), 1964.

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• Nothing can be achieved without hope or confidence. Be sure you always have both!

  Denise Austin

  Without Hope

  Twitter post from Jul 21, 2014

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• Pay no attention to what the critics say;
  no statue has ever been erected to a critic.

  Jean Sibelius

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Courage

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• No one reaches a high position without daring.

  Publilius Syrus

  Courage, Fear, Daring

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p.160, Maxims, 1922.

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• When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.

  Eamon de Valera

  People, Done, May

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• When we first went there we completely lacked confidence. Our manager told us our act was too long, and told us to drop certain numbers and concentrate on the exciting stuff. And he was right.

  Steve Marriott

  Numbers, Long, Stuff

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• No one who deserves confidence ever solicits it.

  John Churton Collins

  Deserve

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• The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let's extend the tax - the existing tax cuts. And then let's give some more tax breaks to small businesses and large. And then maybe the American people will have some confidence.

  John McCain

  Cutting, People, Giving

  "Sen. John McCain Talks Economy, Elections, Immigration". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. September 5, 2010.

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• Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Speech to Hamilton Club, Chicago, Ill., 10 Apr. 1899 See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 18

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• Girls of all kinds can be beautiful; from the thin, plus-sized, short, very tall, ebony to porcelain-skinned

  Tyra Banks

  Beautiful, Girl, Body Love

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• I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.

  Adnan Pachachi

  Thinking, Class, People

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• Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements.

  Chauncey Wright

  Agreement, Mind, Degrees

  Chauncey Wright (2000). “The Evolutionary Philosophy of Chauncey Wright”, p.96, A&C Black

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• In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Strength, Strong, Power

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.147

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• Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.

  Virgil

  Philosophical, Reality, Safety

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