Self Confidence Quotes - Page 19

• Even fans of actively managed funds often concede that most other investors would be better off in index funds. But buoyed by abundant self-confidence, these folks aren't about to give up on actively managed funds themselves. A tad delusional? I think so. Picking the best-performing funds is 'like trying to predict the dice before you roll them down the craps table,' says an investment adviser in Boca Raton, FL. 'I can't do it. The public can't do it.'

  Paul Samuelson

  Giving Up, Thinking, Trying

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• Whilst a man is persuaded that he has it in his power to contribute anything, be it ever so little, to his salvation, he remains in carnal self-confidence; he is not a self-despairer, and therefore is not duly humbled before God, he believes he may lend a helping hand in his salvation, but on the contrary, whoever is truly convinced that the whole work depends singly on the will of God, such a person renounces his own will and strength; he waits and prays for the operation of God, nor waits and prays in vain

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Men, Hands

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• Adolescents swing from euphoric self-confidence and a kind of narcissistic strength in which they feel invulnerable and even immortal, to despair, self-emptiness, self-deprecation. At the same time they seem to see an emerging self that is unique and wonderful, they suffer an intense envy which tears narcissism into shreds, and makes other people's qualities hit them like an attack of lasers.

  Terri E Apter

  Unique, Swings, People

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• One current reaction to change in families, for example, is the proposal for more "education for parenthood," on the theory that this training will not only teach specific skills such as how to change diapers or how to play responsively with toddlers, but will raise parents' self-confidence at the same time. The proposed cure, in short, is to reform and educate the people with the problem.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Play, Skills, People

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• Once you develop confidence in your own ability, you'll be able to make a real contribution to creating a better world. Self-confidence is very important. Not in the sense of blind pride, but as a realistic awareness of what you can do. As human beings we can transform ourselves by our good qualities and reducing our faults. Our intelligence enables us to judge what is good from what is harmful.

  Dalai Lama

  Real, Pride, Creating

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• A successful man has the following qualities: A smile that doesn't die; patience; fearless mind; love; self- confidence; love for everybody.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Successful, Men, Mind Love

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• There is no doubt about it: we are judged by our language as much as (perhaps more than) we are judged by our appearance, our choice of associates, our behavior. Language communicates so much more than ideas; it reveals our intelligence, our knowledge of a topic, our creativity, our ability to think, our self-confidence, et cetera.

  Marlene Caroselli

  Leadership, Creativity, Thinking

  Marlene Caroselli, William J. Rothwell, Dale C. Brandenburg (1990). “The Language of leadership”, Center for Professional development

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• You young people yourselves are capable of performing anything. Our inventors can invent in a high level. Our innovators can innovate in a high level, only if they keep self confidence and believe that we can.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Believe, People, Levels

  Ruhollah Khomeini's address to an audience of Iranian industry workers and inventors (October 1983), as quoted in "Imam's Sahife", Volume 18 (pp. 189-190), December 11, 1983.

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• We must go beyond being reactive and defensive. As Europeans we must regain our self-confidence and realize our own strengths.

  Donald Tusk

  Confidence, Self, Realizing

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• Tell no one the secret that you want to keep, although he may be worthy of confidence; for no one will be so careful of your secret as yourself.

  Saadi

  Confidence, Secret, May

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• Self-confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk-running and chance-taking are the only ways to catch it.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Confidence, Running, Self

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• Acne may be good at destroying self-confidence, but Proactiv+ is good at destroying acne.

  Adam Levine

  Acne, May, Destroying

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• If a woman says, I am getting these breast implants to gain self confidence, then I have to ask, What kind of a society do we live in where a woman's self-confidence depends on having a dangerous, expensive and painful operation on a perfectly healthy body?

  Katha Pollitt

  Healthy, Body, Gains

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• I'm not writing about things other women do. I'm writing for other women to have more self-confidence because I need it myself! And if more women were in power, I would feel more comfortable.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Writing, Needs, Feels

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• My after forty face felt far more comfortable than anything I lived with previously. Self-confidence was a powerful beauty-potion; I looked better because I felt better. Failure and grief as well as success and love had served me well. Finally, I was tapping into that most hard-won of your dews: wisdom.

  Nancy A. Collins

  Wisdom, Powerful, Grief

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• Tis the ignorant who boast.

  Elisabeth of Wied

  Ignorance, Ignorant, Boast

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• You can't have self confidence without some real skills that enable you to be successful.

  Erik Weihenmayer

  Real, Successful, Skills

  Source: www.afb.org

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• Being on stage is about self esteem and self confidence.

  Jake Miller

  Self Esteem, Stage, Self

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• Soften my hard self-opinionatedness, which time has hardened so exceedingly!

  Gertrude the Great

  Self, Hardened, Hard

  St Gertrude the Great (2009). “The Life and Revelations of Saint Gertrude the Great”, p.112, TAN Books

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• Among some of the organized methods used to control the world is the thing known and called PROPAGANDA. Propaganda has done more to defeat the good intentions of races and nations than even open warfare. Propaganda is a method or medium used by organized peoples to convert others against their will. We of the Negro race are suffering more than any other race in the world from propaganda... propaganda to destroy our hopes, our ambitions and our confidence in self.

  Marcus Garvey

  Ambition, Race, Suffering

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• Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. But with self-confidence you can succeed. A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Believe, Humble, Successful

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it. Collect scholars on a club committee, or men of science on a jury; all their virtues vanish, and their vices pop out, reinforced by the self-confidence which the power of numbers is bound to bestow.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Numbers, Together

  "Magick Without Tears". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 73, 1954.

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• Confidence is not based on you having all the resources needed to take care of yourself; confidence is based upon the truth that God is faithful.

  Roy Lessin

  Faithful, Care, Resources

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• There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which, we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect, the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.

  William Hazlitt

  Confidence, Yield, Spirit

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• We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it.

  Anita Roddick

  Government, Roots, Self

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