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• After I graduated from high school, one of the former workers on our farm asked if I would be willing to join him in selling Fuller brushes through the summer. It seemed like a perfect way to make some money for college. And being away from my parents and learning to make my own way gave me self confidence.

  Billy Graham

  Summer, School, College

  Source: www.cmstory.org

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• But the problems of perpetuating a hierarchical society go deeper than this. There are only four ways in which a ruling group can fall from power. Either it is conquered from without, or it governs so inefficiently that the masses are stirred to revolt, or it allows a strong and discontented Middle group to come into being, or it loses its own self-confidence and willingness to govern.

  George Orwell

  Strong, Fall, Political

  George Orwell (2001). “The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four”, p.1306, Penguin UK

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• Being a student in an art & design school, that was the moment for me, that was when I began to develop a lot of self-confidence and really come into my own.

  Tim Gunn

  Art, School, Design

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 11, 2014.

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• We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy; that the phenomenon of craving is limited to this class and never occurs in the average temperate drinker. These allergic types can never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve.

  William Duncan Silkworth

  Believe, Recovery, Years

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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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• I think it's important for girls at a young age to be involved in as many things as possible. Especially safe communities of people that teach them great life lessons like self-confidence and courage. And getting girls to go to camp especially in the summer where they can meet new friends, learn new things, and not just sit at home and watch TV.

  Shawn Johnson

  Summer, Girl, Life Lesson

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• Cooking gives you the ability to grow as a person and to give yourself confidence. You can invite people around, you can sit down and eat together and it makes you feel about ten feet tall because you've done it with your own hands.

  William Katt

  Hands, Feet, People

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• Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think... The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Men, Thinking

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• Doing projects really gives people self-confidence. Nothing is better than taking the pie out of the oven. What it does for you personally, and for your family's idea of you, is something you can't buy.

  Martha Stewart

  Ideas, Pie, People

  "Martha Stewart Geeks Out For Wired's Annual How To Guide". Interview with Mark Frauenfelder, www.wired.com. July 23, 2007.

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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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• My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I hadn’t fallen into the fatal folly of reading anything I could lay hands on. With just a touch more self confidence and a liberal helping of ignorance I could have been a famous evangelist.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Reading, Ignorance, Hands

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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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• As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.

  Garson Kanin

  Doubt, Arrogant, Cases

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• The idea that guys should walk into a bar and confidently initiate contact and then seduce a woman based on a short term conversation is a toxic cultural myth that robs guys of self-confidence and that holds them up to an unrealistic standard that they have to become a super-extraverted narcissist in order to 'score with women'

  Tucker Max

  Order, Ideas, Guy

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• I mean always had a lot of self-confidence.

  Ruben Studdard

  Mean, Self

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• I don't think my brand of self-confidence and self-assuredness can come from an outside source. It's got to come from me.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Thinking, Source, Brands

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• I don't have a lot of self-confidence. I'm getting there. Before I had zero confidence, but it's one of those things you learn and accept.

  Eliot Paulina Sumner

  Zero, Self, Accepting

  "The Self-Aware Solo Artist". Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2015.

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• I've often been struck by the extensive knowledge that people have of sports, and particularly, their self-confidence in discussing it with experts. . . . In contrast, when discussing matters of concern to human lives - their own and others - people tend to defer to experts.

  Noam Chomsky

  Sports, People, Experts

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• You know, I don't talk about the characters that I play. Years ago, I was a little timid about it and I kind of squirmed when I was asked, 'Could you tell us something about your character.' Now with a little self-confidence that comes with the grey beard, I just flatly refuse.

  Christoph Waltz

  Character, Years, Play

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• [Degree in English] gave me a little more self-confidence, to know that I'd managed to complete something like that.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Degrees, Littles, Knows

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For a large corporation to be effective, it must be simple. For an organization to be simple, its people must have self-confidence and intellectual self-assurance. Insecure managers create complexity, real leaders do not clutter.

  Jack Welch

  Real, Insecure, Simple

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• The development of self-confidence starts with the elimination of this demon called fear.

  Napoleon Hill

  Development, Demon, Elimination

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• It is often the case with finer natures, that when the fire of the spirit dies out with increasing age, the power of the intellect is unaltered or increased.

  Margaret Gatty

  Fire, Age, Spirit

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• I had a fantastic mother who taught me self-confidence.

  Anna Torv

  Mother, Taught, Fantastic

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• Friendship with oneself is all important.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Friendship, Self Esteem, Love Yourself

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

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