Confidence Quotes - Page 20

• We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.

  Octavia Butler

  Climbing, Permit, Higher

  Octavia E. Butler (2011). “Bloodchild and Other Stories”, p.149, Seven Stories Press

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• Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach.

  James Wolfe

  Rocks, Enemy, Gains

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• Poise and indifference so often look the same.

  Sue Grafton

  Looks, Indifference, Poise

  Sue Grafton (2010). “J is for Judgement”, p.236, Pan Macmillan

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• You do not need to let anything get you down, but if you are down you certainly need not let anything keep you down.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Needs, Ifs

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Positive Principle Today”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• Right now I have more confidence in myself. I grew up.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Amelie, Grew Up, Right Now

  The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.

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• I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.

  Lucille Ball

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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

  Sven-Goran Eriksson

  Inspirational, Motivation, Fear

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• You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

  Brian Tracy

  Success, Leadership, Motivation

  Twitter post from Nov 22, 2015

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• We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.

  Alan Shearer

  Sports, Games, Lines

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• For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum

  Floyd Patterson

  Sports, Train Hard, Maximum

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• Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Causes, Action, Face Your Fears

  Norman Vincent Peale (1996). “Power of the Plus Factor”, Ballantine Books

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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

  Tom Landry

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• When we first went there we completely lacked confidence. Our manager told us our act was too long, and told us to drop certain numbers and concentrate on the exciting stuff. And he was right.

  Steve Marriott

  Numbers, Long, Stuff

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• In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Strength, Strong, Power

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.147

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• Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools - but they must be kept to a minimum.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Business, Self, Giving

  "The Fast Company Interview: Jeff Immelt". Interview with John R. Byrne, www.fastcompany.com. July 1, 2005.

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• Imagine how free we would feel and what we could accomplish if we could live without fear.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Courage, Fear, Imagine

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• It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Fear, Light, Darkness

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• No one reaches a high position without daring.

  Publilius Syrus

  Courage, Fear, Daring

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p.160, Maxims, 1922.

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• When you really believe in God, it gives you a courage, a confidence that enables you to meet the things coming.

  Della Reese

  Believe, Giving, Belive

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• I don't take drugs. I never did. All the feelings that drugs are supposed to produce in you - confidence or energy - I can produce naturally.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Drug, Feelings, Energy

  "Madonna Rocks the Land". Time, May 27, 1985.

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• What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.

  John Bunyan

  Lying, Greatness, Keys

  John Bunyan, Thomas Scott (1825). “The Pilgrim's Progress: From this World to that which is to Come. Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream. In Two Parts”, p.161

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• You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.

  Brené Brown

  Hustle, Stories, Standing Out

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• Any action is better than no action at all.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Action, Face Your Fears

  Norman Vincent Peale (1996). “Power of the Plus Factor”, Ballantine Books

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• No one who deserves confidence ever solicits it.

  John Churton Collins

  Deserve

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