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• People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Self Esteem, Believe, Thinking

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.2870, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence.

  Brian Greene

  Believe, Emotional, Confusion

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• There is one prevailing key to success. Do what you resolve to do. Then you'll be a success. If you can discipline yourself to follow through on your promises to yourself, your self-esteem goes up. Persistence is self-discipline in action. Self-discipline is the foundation of self-confidence .

  Brian Tracy

  Self Esteem, Persistence, Keys

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• It's not the lack of ability or opportunity that holds you back; it is only a lack of confidence in yourself.

  Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

  Confidence, Opportunity, Ability

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• At the opening of our exhibition at Deitch Projects in New York we featured a wall of 10,000 bananas. Green bananas created a pattern against a background of yellow bananas spelling out the sentiment: Self-confidence produces fine results. After a number of days the green bananas turned yellow too and the type disappeared. When the yellow background bananas turned brown, the type (and the self-confidence) appeared again, only to go away when all bananas turned brown.

  Stefan Sagmeister

  New York, Wall, Yellow

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• Self-confidence is not pride. Just the contrary: only a person or a nation that is self-confident, in the best sense of the word, is capable of listening to others, accepting them as equals, forgiving its enemies and regretting its own guilt.

  Vaclav Havel

  Regret, Pride, Listening To Others

  New Year's Address to the Nation, Prague, January 01, 1990.

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• I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.

  Loretta Young

  Self, Bears, Ifs

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• I had over-trained. I put too much pressure on myself because I wanted that gold medal too much. If I had trained 15 per cent less, I would have won. I was training like a crazy person. There was a lack of self-confidence and a lack of maturity. An athlete does not only train with his body. He trains with his mind.

  Hicham El Guerrouj

  Crazy, Athlete, Maturity

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• To conquer fear is the best way to gain your self-confidence.

  Roy T. Bennett

  Way, Gains, Conquer

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• You can't help people being right for the wrong reasons...This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an expression of political purity; it is an expression of a lack of self-confidence.

  Arthur Koestler

  Expression, People, Political

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• There are many types of emotional abuse but most is done in an attempt to control or subjugate another person. Emotional abuse is like brainwashing in that it systematically wears away at the victim's self-confidence, sense of self, trust in her perceptions and self-concept.

  Beverly Engel

  Emotional, Abuse, Perception

  "Emotionally Abused Women". Online Chat, www.healthyplace.com.

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• Being in charge of your work life doesn't mean you always move with assurance and sublime self-confidence; it means you keep moving, continuing on your own path, even when you feel shaky and uncertain.

  Charlotte Beers

  Moving, Mean, Continuing On

  Charlotte Beers (2012). “I'd Rather Be in Charge: A Legendary Business Leader's Roadmap for Achieving Pride, Power, and Joy at Work”, p.197, Vanguard Press

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• The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent of vitality and self-confidence.

  Milan Kundera

  Lying, Differences, Vitality

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• The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident ... Hitler was afraid.

  Bill Crawford

  Jesus, Simple, Differences

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• Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along without this. Place no hope in the inspirational preachers of Christian sunshine, who are able to pick you up and set you back on your feet and make you feel good for three or four days-until you fold up and collapse into despair. Self-confidence is a precious natural gift, a sign of health. But it is not the same thing as faith. Faith is much deeper, and it must be deep enough to subsist when we are weak, when we are sick, when our self-confidence is gone, when our self-respect is gone.

  Thomas Merton

  Christian, Spiritual, Sunshine

  Thomas Merton (2003). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.190, Shambhala Publications

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• Self-confidence without self-reliance is as useless as a cooking recipe without food. Self-confidence sees the possibilities of the individual; self-reliance realizes them. Self-confidence sees the angel in the unhewn block of marble; self-reliance carves it out for oneself.

  William George Jordan

  Block, Angel, Cooking

  William George Jordan (2007). “The Majesty of Calmness”, p.21, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Do what you were born to do. You just have to trust yourself.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Inspirational, Confidence, Trust Yourself

  "Be(Y) Our Bff". www.cosmopolitan.com.au. March 27, 2013.

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• The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not malleable; he may be mistaken, he may be fooled in a given instance, but he is inflexible in regard to the absolutism of reality, i.e., in seeking and demanding truth.

  Ayn Rand

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Men

  AYN RAND “THE NEW LEFT: THE ANTI-INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION”

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• You must have an alibi to show why you lost. If you haven't one, you must fake one. You self confidence must be maintained.

  Christy Mathewson

  Fake, Lost, Shows

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• Have the self-confidence to say no when it is necessary and the strength to stand alone. Give yourself the approval to love and respect everything that you are and will become.

  Jackie Olson

  Cheer, Positive Thinking, Giving

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• Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.

  Stewart Edward White

  Life, Motivational, Confidence

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• I am driven to observe of the ultra-Darwinists the following features as symptomatic. First, to my eyes, is their almost unbelievable self-assurance, their breezy self-confidence.

  Simon Conway Morris

  Eye, Firsts, Driven

  Simon Conway Morris (2003). “Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe”, p.314, Cambridge University Press

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• Perhaps self-esteem is just the sum of self-love and self-confidence. People with high self-esteem know they deserve a good life and that they can get almost everything they focus on!

  Mika

  Good Life, Self Esteem, People

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• Self confidence for me is a fragile fleece.

  Sylvia Kristel

  Self, Fragile, Fleece

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.

  Sasha Azevedo

  Sad, Jealousy, Acceptance

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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