Confidence Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Mignon McLaughlin
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| It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever. |
| - Philip Adams |
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| I've spent most of my life walking under that hovering cloud, jealousy, whose acid raindrops blurred my vision and burned holes in my heart. Once I learned to use the umbrella of confidence, the skies cleared up for me and the sunshine called joy became my faithful companion. |
| - Astrid Alauda |
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| I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. |
| - Louisa May Alcott |
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| Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway. |
| - Mary Kay Ash |
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| Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Oliver Wendell Holmes once attended a meeting in which he was the shortest man present. "Dr. Holmes," quipped a friend, "I should think you'd feel rather small among us big fellows." "I do," retorted Holmes, "I feel like a dime among a lot of pennies." |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Put your future in good hands - your own. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Success comes in cans, not cant's. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| I am not a has-been. I am a will be. |
| - Lauren Bacall |
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| Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours. |
| - Richard Bach |
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| Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands. |
| - Francis Bacon |
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| Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. |
| - Bruce Barton |
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| Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. |
| - Arnold Bennett |
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| A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. |
| - David Brinkley |
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| Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. |
| - Les Brown |
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| The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled. |
| - Andrew Carnegie |
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| You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. |
| - Rosalynn Carter |
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| If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor. |
| - Sébastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort |
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| All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them. |
| - Charles Dickens |
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| If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. |
| - Thomas Alva Edison |
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| Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. |
| - Epicurus |
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| It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to. |
| - W.C. Fields |
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| Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right. |
| - Henry Ford |
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| Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. |
| - Gene Fowler |
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| I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly. |
| - Buckminster Fuller |
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| Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. |
| - Shakti Gawain |
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| There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Leanr to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all dependso me.' |
| - André Gide |
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| If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. |
| - Vincent van Gogh |
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| The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves. |
| - Ellen Goodman |
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| Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed. |
| - Baltasar Gracian |
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| Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves. |
| - William Hazlitt |
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| If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground. |
| - Henrik Ibsen |
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| Knock the "t" off the "can't." |
| - Samuel Johnson |
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| Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. |
| - Samuel Johnson |
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| You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. |
| - Michael Jordan |
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| Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent. |
| - Sophia Loren |
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| Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got. |
| - Sophia Loren |
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| Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heart-ache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, to discover what is already there. |
| - Henry Miller |
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| We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do. |
| - Olin Miller |
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| Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. |
| - Michel de Montaigne |
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| Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. |
| - Michel de Montaigne |
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| Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. |
| - Anaïs Nin |
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| I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair. |
| - Anaïs Nin |
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| Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger. |
| - Arnold Palmer |
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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 |
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| I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it. |
| - Edgar Allan Poe |
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| A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows. |
| - John Powell |
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| When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. |
| - African Proverb |
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| Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. |
| - Eleanor Roosevelt |
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| People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet. |
| - Sa'Di |
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| Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge. |
| - George Santayana |
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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 |
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| Mediocrity is a hand-rail. |
| - Charles Louis de Secondat |
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| Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. |
| - Sydney Smith |
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| What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. |
| - Paul Tillich |
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| All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| There are offences given and offences not given but taken. |
| - Izaak Walton |
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| Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. |
| - Marianne Williamson |
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| Don't let anyone steal your dream. It's your dream, not theirs. |
| - Dan Zadra |
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