Confidence Quotes - Page 31

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Having talent isn't merely about being competent; confidence is actually a part of that talent.

  Claire Shipman

  Talent, Competent

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• We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity to live fully in its total meaning of loving, caring, creating and adventuring. Consequently, the actualizing of our potential can become the most exciting adventure of our lifetime.

  Herbert Otto Gille

  Inspiring, Spiritual, Adventure

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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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• The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.

  Alan Cohen

  Love, Self Worth, Affair

  Alan Cohen (2006). “Relax Into Wealth: How to Get More by Doing Less”, p.46, Penguin

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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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• Believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic.

  Brené Brown

  Believe, Giving, Self Acceptance

  "Brené Brown's Top 4 Life Lessons". www.oprah.com.

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• If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!

  W. Clement Stone

  Motivational, Mean, Self

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• Winning becomes easier over time as the cornerstones of confidence become habits.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Winning, Habit, Easier

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• Confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair-consisting of positive expectations for favorable outcomes.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Sweet, Expectations, Arrogance

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• Confidence is a belief in myself and my ability. I built my confidence through hard training. I believed there was no one out there working any harder than me.

  Joan Benoit

  Training, Belief, Ability

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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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• 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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• Girls of all kinds can be beautiful.

  Tyra Banks

  Beautiful, Girl, Unique Beauty

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

  Roh Moo-hyun

  Destiny

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• I had gained so much confidence through my college achievements that I wanted to tackle the world.

  Donna Rice Hughes

  College, Achievement, World

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• I have confidence in people's basic common sense.

  Dixie Lee Ray

  People, Common Sense, Common

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• I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.

  Alain Prost

  Important, Wells, Have Confidence

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• One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and it will reduce the cost of rockets.

  Ralph Merkle

  Air, Stronger, Cost

  "Nanotechnology: Designs for the Future". Interview with John Gehl, ubiquity.acm.org. July 2000.

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• Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs.

  Kamisese Mara

  Jobs, Loss, Order

  Report to President Ganilau, May 15, 1992.

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• I really always felt that I was going to be an actress. I had a lot of confidence in the fact that I would do well from a very early age. I didn't know how tough the business is.

  Susan Lucci

  Age, Facts, Actresses

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• Yet you should practice the greatest possible love and confidence in treating with Him.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Practice, Possible Love, Should

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “How to Converse with God”, p.7, TAN Books

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