Confidence Quotes - Page 31

• The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)”, p.85, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.

  Tina Fey

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, 2011.

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• Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

  Thomas Fuller

  Military, Ironic, Coward

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• You’ve got to be sure of yourself before You can ever win a prize.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Business, Winning

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.1005, Penguin

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• Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspiring, Fear, Your Beautiful

  "A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a 'Course in Miracles'". Book by Marianne Williamson, 1992.

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• I'm young as morning and fresh as dew. Everybody loves me and so do you.

  Maya Angelou

  Morning, Believe In Yourself, Dew

  Maya Angelou (2011). “I Shall Not Be Moved: Poems”, p.42, Random House

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• once, when I was a young lady and on a night express ... I was awakened by a man coming in from the corridor and taking hold of my leg ... Quite as much to my own astonishment as his, I uttered the most appalling growl that ever came out of a tigress. He fled, poor man, without a word: and I lay there, trembling slightly, not at my escape but at my potentialities.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Night, Men, Legs

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• Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late.

  Fay Weldon

  Writing, Impossible, Late

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• You reach a point in life where you realize that you might as well do what you need to do, because your being loved or not being loved is really a function of the people you encounter and not of yourself. That is an immensely liberating insight.

  Erica Jong

  People, Encounters, Needs

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• No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Laughter, Men, Bears

  Maria Edgeworth (1832). “Tales of Fashionable Life: The absentee, ch. 6-17”, p.146

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• Most frequently we make confidants from vanity, a love of talking, a wish to win the confidence of others, and to make an exchange of secrets.

  Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

  Winning, Vanity, Talking

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• Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence. Legitimate self-confidence is a winner. The true test of self-confidence is the courage to be open - to welcome change and new ideas regardless of their source. Self-confident people aren't afraid to have their views challenged. They relish the intellectual combat that enriches ideas.

  Jack Welch

  Ambition, Self, Views

  "Jack: Straight from the Gut". Book by Jack Welch, 2001.

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• There is no value-judgment more important to a man--no factor more decisive in his psychological development and motivation--than the estimate he passes on himself.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Motivation, Men, Important

  Nathaniel Branden (2001). “The Psychology of Self-Esteem: A Revolutionary Approach to Self-Understanding that Launched a New Era in Modern Psychology”, Jossey-Bass

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• Trust in thine own untried capacity As thou wouldst trust in God himself. Thy soul Is but an emanation from the whole. Thou dost not dream what forces lie in thee, Vast and unfathomed as the grandest sea.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Dream, Lying, Sea

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.567, Delphi Classics

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• Don’t let anyone steal your milk.

  Ryan Blair

  Follow Your Heart, Milk, Stealing

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• By some fluke, my folks forgot to ask me the question most crucial to ensuring a lifetime of self-doubt: 'What if you fail?

  Lizz Winstead

  Self, What If, Doubt

  Lizz Winstead (2012). “Lizz Free or Die: Essays”, p.46, Penguin

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• When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid caution of age. Manhood is the isthmus between the two extremes; the ripe and fertile season of action, when alone we can hope to find the head to contrive, united with the hand to execute.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Errors, Hands, Two

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.183

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• Confidence, to my way of thinking, generally is all the magic needed to work miracles.

  Evalyn Walsh McLean

  Thinking, Miracle, Magic

  Evalyn Walsh McLean (2015). “Father Struck It Rich”, p.206, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The world will provide you with every imaginable obstacle, but the one most difficult to overcome will be the lack of faith in yourself. Leave it to others to have doubts about you.

  Callie Khouri

  Doubt, Overcoming, World

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• One of my mottos is flaunt what you've got left.

  Cybill Shepherd

  Motto, My Motto, Left

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• Confidence is not a guarantee of success, but a pattern of thinking that will improve your likelihood of success, a tenacious search for ways to make things work.

  John Eliot

  Happiness, Success, Peace

  John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.148, Diversion Books

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• We must regain the confidence and drive to decide our own destiny.

  Roh Moo-hyun

  Destiny

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• I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?

  Goldie Hawn

  Beauty, Running, Being Yourself

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• I'll just get better as I go along because I'm open to getting better. If you have the goods, there's nothing to be afraid of. If somebody doesn't have the goods, they're insecure. I don't have that problem

  Jennifer Lopez

  Insecure, Get Better, Problem

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• The truly wise are content to be last. They are, therefore, first. They are indifferent to themselves. They are, therefore self-confident.

  Laozi

  Wise, Self, Lasts

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