Confidence Quotes - Page 29

• For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Office, President, Want

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

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• Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed

  Publilius Syrus

  Soul, Departed, Return

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• Though confidence is very fine, and makes the future sunny; I want no confidence for mine, I'd rather have the money

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Want, Sunny, Fine

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• The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence

  George Santayana

  Inspire, Quality, Admiration

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.154, Courier Corporation

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• Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it

  William Hazlitt

  Courage, Women, Wish

  William Hazlitt (1852). “Men and manners: sketches and essays”, p.124

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• Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that makes it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Knowing, Selling, Company

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• In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Comfort, Bottles, Cowardice

  Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt (1854). “Johnson's Lives of the British Poets”, p.66

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• Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom

  Samuel Johnson

  Growth, Plant, Bosoms

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• Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one would lie in his place

  H. L. Mencken

  Lying, Believe, Men

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• Honesty, disinterestedness and good nature are indispensable to procure the esteem and confidence of those with whom we live, and on whose esteem our happiness depends.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Honesty, Good Nature, Indispensable

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.7, Modern Library

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Common Sense, Mankind, Common

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

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• Only you can determine your choice of attitude. Choose wisely, choose carefully, choose confidently!

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Attitude, Choices, Choose Wisely

  Charles R. Swindoll (2006). “Great Attitudes for Graduates!: 10 Choices for Success in Life”

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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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• We simply must have faith in each other, faith in our ability to govern ourselves, and faith in the future of this Nation. Restoring that faith and that confidence to America is now the most important task we face.

  Jimmy Carter

  Faith, America, Important

  Energy and the National Goals - A Crisis of Confidence, delivered 15 July, 1979

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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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• It's about you, giving yourself permission to be who you are, without giving a rip about what anybody else is thinking about it.

  Esther Hicks

  Rip, Thinking, Giving

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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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• The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only.

  Bob Riley

  Fighting, Simple, Government

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• I was given a tremendous gift in terms of athleticism. Maybe it was because I wasn't so confident in other areas.

  Mia Hamm

  Athleticism, Given, Term

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• I set out to be the best and I am.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Being The Best

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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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• Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Share, Conversation, Wit

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• You'll have to learn that public life takes a lot of sweat; but it doesn't need to worry you. You won't always be right, but you mustn't suffer from being wrong. That's what kills people like us.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Sweat, People, Worry

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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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• When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges.

  Terence Stamp

  Rough Edges, Kind, Certainty

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