Confidence Quotes - Page 9

• We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Three, Lamps, Way

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Fire

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.180

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• In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.

  Carter G. Woodson

  People, Facts

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.108, Book Tree

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• If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Esteem, Love Yourself, Loving Yourself

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.56, Harvard University Press

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• Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

  Erich Fromm

  Faith, Able, Be True To Yourself

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.206, Routledge

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• I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.

  Eddie Murphy

  Self Confidence, Initiative, Wanted

  FaceBook post by Eddie Murphy from Feb 12, 2014

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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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  Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

  Ann Landers

  Love, Friendship, Forgiveness

  Ann Landers (1978). “The Ann Landers encyclopedia, A to Z: improve your life emotionally, medically, sexually, socially, spiritually”, Galahad Books

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• People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Leader's Digest : Timeless Principles for Team and Organization". Book by Jim Clemmer (p. 84), 2003.

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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

  Fall, Achievement, Tasks

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.82, Shambhala Publications

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• Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Honesty, Integrity, Light

  Michel de Montaigne (1907). “The Essays”

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• Confidence comes not from always being right but from not
  fearing to be wrong.

  Peter McIntyre

  Motivational, Positive, Fear

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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

  Being Yourself, Anxiety, Doubt

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.70, BookBaby

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

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Life, Friendship, Funny Inspirational

  "The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe".

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• There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Battle, Half, Conviction

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• Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

  Coco Chanel

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Believing in Ourselves: The Wisdom of Women". Book by Armand Eisen (p. 15), 1992.

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• There's nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn't.

  Amy Chua

  Building, Can Do Something, Building Confidence

  Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, p.17, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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.

  Anais Nin

  Good Luck, Fate, Thinking

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• Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.

  John Haggai

  Focus, Energy, Mastery

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• It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

  Samuel Johnson

  Genius, Pace, Talent

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.32

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• Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Sex, Struggle

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• There are offences given and offences not given but taken.

  Izaak Walton

  Taken, Given, Offence

  Izaak Walton (1833). “The Complete Angler ; Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation; Being a Discourse on Rivers, Ponds, Fish and Fishing. With Lives and Notes”, p.33

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• The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

  Michel de Montaigne

  God, Men, Light

  Michel de Montaigne (1912*). “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne”

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• I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.

  John Malkovich

  Ghost, Lacking, Describe Myself

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