Confidence Quotes - Page 29

• If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.

  Jean Sibelius

  Honor, Attention, World

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• I don't come on to seduce the audience. I don't care if everyone laughs. I can't think about that anymore. If there's anything that a lot of experience on stage and a lot of stage time gives you is the confidence to know that it's ok if they're not laughing every second you're up there. Although that's what drives me and I still go too fast a lot of the time.

  Greg Proops

  Thinking, Giving, Laughing

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• I don't really see the hurdles. I sense them like a memory.

  Edwin Moses

  Memories, Hurdle, Belief In Self

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• False humility is thinly veiled ego disguised as self confidence.

  Dov Davidoff

  Humility, Self, Ego

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• And so we try to address those concerns in every way possible, recognizing, again, in the final analysis, everybody on that flight wants to be assured with the highest level of confidence that everybody else on that flight has been properly screened, and including me and you and everybody.

  John S. Pistole

  Trying, Finals, Analysis

  Senate hearing on TSA, www.cnet.com. November 16, 2010.

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• We found on our journey, as well as in the place where we stopped, that they treated us with as much confidence and good-will as if they had known us all their lives.

  Junipero Serra

  Journey, Found, Wells

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• Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.

  Major Taylor

  Sports, Champion, Training

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• The old saying that "success breeds success" has something to it. It's that feeling of confidence that can banish negativity and procrastination and get you going the right way.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Procrastination, Focus

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• I think the biggest challenge I have faced is that I have struggled most of my life with often crippling depression which has sometimes if not keeping me off stage kept me from writing regularly and with any kind of confidence.

  Gary Gulman

  Writing, Thinking, Challenges

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• You must not be afraid of small bits of silence. To use it well is the height of confidence and skill for a comedian. It increases the tension in a good way and adds contrast like a curveball complements the fastball of a good pitcher.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Skills, Silence, Comedian

  Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”

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• Whenever I eat at a restaurant I never put the napkin in my lap. People say, 'Hannibal, why don't you put the napkin in your lap?' Because I believe in myself. I believe in my ability to not spill food in my pants 'cause I'm a goddamn adult. And I've mastered the art of getting food from my plate to my mouth without messing up my jeans. You need to believe in yourself, too and get your life together, that's for babies. Have some confidence in your eating abilities and hand/eye coordination.

  Hannibal Buress

  Baby, Art, Believe

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• I recently had double-bypass surgery. As they wheel you in, the doctor always gives you a last look. You know that look. That look of confidence to make you feel good. I always say to every doctor, If I don't make it, I'll never know it.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Doctors, Giving, Feel Good

  "Rodney Dangerfield: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• A very little little let us do
  And all is done.

  William Shakespeare

  Done, Littles, Action

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.458

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• Being the youngest of five, you're adored, you're fueled with confidence.

  Martin Short

  Five

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• We want you to stop caring about what anybody else's response is to you. And when you get there, they'll all really, really like you. It's the strangest thing. When you need their approval, you never get it. And when you don't need their approval, you're so tuned in, everybody wants to be with you.

  Esther Hicks

  Caring, Needs, Want

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• We must believe in ourselves or no one will believe in us.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Believe, Believe In Us

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• Only the drum is confident, it thinks the world has not changed

  Robinson Jeffers

  Change, Music, Thinking

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (1988). “The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1928-1938”, p.158, Stanford University Press

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• Ours is the one ever-present voice in our lives. Therefore, it is crucial that our self-talk instill confidence within us and is supportive, not submerging, and that our attitudes toward ourselves help keep our spirits afloat through acceptance and trust. We are our own most important and influential buoy.

  Sue Thoele

  Attitude, Acceptance, Self

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• Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Forgiving, Wonderful

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• Who has self-confidence will lead the rest.

  Horace

  Self Confidence, Self

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• To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Blow, Vulnerable, Achilles

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• There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.

  Tacitus

  Cornelius Tacitus (1873). “The History of Tacitus”, p.90, London : Macmillan

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• Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Share, Conversation, Wit

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• Confidence always pleases those who receive it. It is a tribute we pay to their merit, a deposit we commit to their trust, a pledge that gives them a claim upon us, a kind of dependence to which we voluntarily submit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Giving, Merit, Pay

  "Reflections on Various Subjects". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, www.gutenberg.org. 1678.

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• As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.

  Julius Caesar

  Fear, Unusual, Results

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