Great Confidence Quotes

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  One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

  Arthur Ashe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspiring, Confidence, Fear

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

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

  Stan Smith

  Soccer, Sports, Confidence

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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have great faith in fools,— self-confidence my friends will call it.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Life, Friendship, Confidence

  "The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe".

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• Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

  Zig Ziglar

  Confidence, Running, Design

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 16, 2014

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• Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Motivational, Confidence

  Samuel Johnson (1804). “The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland: And a Criticism on Their Works”, p.500

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• I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

  Anna Freud

  Inspirational, Positive, Strength

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  To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Beauty

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• Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, Real Friends, My Best Friend

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.38, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

  Sven-Goran Eriksson

  Inspirational, Confidence, Motivation

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• Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

  Laozi

  Uplifting, Confidence, Motivation

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• Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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  Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

  Joe Paterno

  Sports, Loyalty, Running

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• Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Life, Motivational, Sports

  FaceBook post by Jack Nicklaus from Jan 14, 2014

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• I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Confidence, Common Sense, Mankind

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.172, Cambridge University Press

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• Some forty years of experience in my field as a scholar and as a teacher have given me great confidence mixed with greater humility.

  George Sarton

  Teacher, Humility, Years

  George Sarton (1993). “Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B.C.”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• After years of training [as astronaut], you have great confidence in the technology. When you get in your car, you probably feel safe too, even though thousands of people die in car crashes every year.

  Ulrich Walter

  Technology, Years, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I find that all great directors, and I would include Ben Affleck and Clint Eastwood in that, they have great confidence. And with great confidence comes great freedom for the actor.

  Amy Ryan

  Directors, Actors, Great Freedom

  "Q&A – Amy Ryan on What Affleck, Eastwood, and the Green Zone Director Have in Common". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. March 2010.

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• I have great confidence in Rick Caruso's unique qualifications and his ability to lead a successful bid for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

  Joe Torre

  Successful, Unique, Los Angeles

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• I have great, great confidence in our capital markets and in our financial institutions. Our financial institutions, banks and investment banks, are strong. Our capital markets are resilient. They're efficient. They're flexible.

  Henry Paulson

  Strong, Financial, Investment

  "Commentary: White House caught napping on financial crisis" by Campbell Brown, www.cnn.com. September 24, 2008.

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