Confidence Quotes - Page 26

• It needs courage to be afraid.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Needs

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• The greatest possession is Self-possession.

  Ethel Mumford

  Self, Possession

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• confidence is a choice ... to act, or to do, or to decide.

  Katty Kay

  Choices

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• I set out to be the best and I am.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Being The Best

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• It is the man who is sure of himself who disregards the opinion of the world. To be sure is to have power.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Power, Men, World

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• Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.

  William James

  Success, Believe, Entrepreneur

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• in this curious world there are certain beings to whom it is given to say of all things with naïve faith, not 'I shall seek,' but 'I shall find.

  Katherine Cecil Thurston

  World, Curious, Given

  Katherine Cecil Thurston (2008). “Max (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.130, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• we found that success correlates more closely with confidence than it does with competence. Yes, there is evidence that confidence is more important than ability when it comes to getting ahead. This came as particularly unsettling news to us, having spent our own lives striving toward competence.

  Katty Kay

  Important, Doe, News

  Katty Kay, Claire Shipman (2014). “The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance---What Women Should Know”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• When you're young, you tend to believe what people tell you, and that's dangerous. As you get older, you learn that you're never as good or as bad as they say you are. If you understand this, you win.

  George Clooney

  Believe, Winning, People

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• self-possession is the ability to face without fear life in all its contradictions.

  Vivian Gornick

  Self, Faces, Contradiction

  Vivian Gornick (1978). “Essays in feminism”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Humility, Two, Quality

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• You can become anything you want to be ... It's a matter of authority. Whatever a man's confidence, that's his capacity.

  Marijane Meaker

  Men, Matter, Want

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• I am iron butterfly ... / I am she/we / of flesh / and iron / and silk wings, / healing, flying / into a gentle blue sky.

  Janice Mirikitani

  Healing, Butterfly, Wings

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• No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you absolutely, positively do have the power to change.

  Bill Phillips

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• You have to pretend you're 100 percent sure. You have to take action; you can't hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure.

  Andy Grove

  Business, Effort, Action

  "Andy Grove: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• It's me who is my enemy
  Me who beats me up
  Me who makes the monsters
  Me who strips my confidence.

  Paula Cole

  Enemy, Politics, Monsters

  Song: Me, Album: This Fire, 1996

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• The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall,' a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire.

  Mitt Romney

  Wall, Evil, Rose

  "Never Retreat, Never Apologize" by David Weigel, www.slate.com. July 25, 2012.

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• What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

  B. C. Forbes

  Courage, Fear

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• There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.

  Harry S. Truman

  Inspirational, Courage, Fear

  Harry S. Truman (1960). “Freedom and equality, addresses”

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• In science, mistakes always precede the truth

  Horace Walpole

  Mistake

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• I know that once I get a good rhythm and a good feel, no one can stop me.

  John Starks

  Basketball, Rhythm, Feels

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• Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Faith, Soulmate, Educational

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• Just believe in yourself. Even if you don't, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.

  Venus Williams

  Fitness, Believe, Ifs

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• If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.

  A. A. Milne

  Friendship, Relationship, Romantic

  "Fictional character: Christopher Robin". "Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin", www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Positive, Encouraging, Wise

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