Quotes and Sayings About Self Confidence
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
-- Abraham Verghese -
Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.
-- Al MacInnis -
Soloing is the most beautiful way of climbing; no material constrains, just you and the rock, the sun, nature; a kind of school for courage, willpower and self-confidence.
-- Alain Robert -
Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
-- Alan Alda -
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Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
-- Andre Maurois -
You have to pretend you're 100 percent sure. You have to take action; you can't hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure.
-- Andy Grove -
Our greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence.
-- Angela Ahrendts -
I had a fantastic mother who taught me self-confidence.
-- Anna Torv -
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She laughed out loud, a warm, knowing laughter that made me once again wonder about the secret ingredient in these women’s lives. Whatever it was, I was clearly missing it. It was so much more than just self-confidence; it seemed to be the ability to love oneself, enthusiastically and unsparingly, body and soul, naturally followed by the assumption that every man on the planet is dying to get in on the act.
-- Anne FortierSource : Anne Fortier (2012). “Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.168, Ballantine Books
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The determination and conviction to succeed can only come from within.
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Imagination, on the contrary, which is ever wandering beyond the bounds of truth, joined to self-love and that self-confidence we are so apt to indulge, prompt us to draw conclusions which are not immediately derived from facts.
-- Antoine LavoisierSource : Antoine Lavoisier (2011). “Elements of Chemistry”, Courier Corporation
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Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she believed in God, without explanation or discussion.
-- Antonia Fraser -
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The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.
-- Arnold Bennett -
The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work.
-- Arnold SchwarzeneggerSource : Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder”, p.30, Simon and Schuster
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Love from within, be determined and let your self-confidence take you to heights you never experienced before
-- Arsi NamiSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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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 -
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I lack self-confidence. I don't know whether I shall ever get it. Perhaps it is better to be unsure of your self, as I am. But it is very tiring.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
By marrying to soon, many individuals sacrifice their chance to struggle through this purgatory of solitude and search toward a greater sense of self-confidence. They glance at the world outside the family and with hardly a second thought grasp anxiously for a partner. In marriage they seek a substitute for the security of the family of origin and an escape from aloneness. What they do not realize is that moving so quickly from one family to another, they make it easy to transfer to the new marriage all their difficult experiences in the family of origin.
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The best way to help Burma is to empower the people of Burma, to help us have enough self-confidence to obtain what we want for ourselves.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think. It cannot be replaced by one's power to deceive. The self-confidence of a scientist and the self-confidence of a con man are not interchangeable states, and do not come from the same psychological universe. The success of a man who deals with reality augments his self-confidence. The success of a con man augments his panic.
-- Ayn Rand -
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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.
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There is only one source of authentic self-confidence: reason.
-- Ayn Rand -
Leadership is the self-confidence of working with people smarter than you.
-- Azim Premji -
Power is sexy, not simply in its own right, but because it inspires self-confidence in its owner and a shiver of subservience on the part of those who approach it.
-- Barbara Amiel -
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You are living in a time when opportunities for self-empowerment, expanded awareness and spiritual growth appear to be unlimited.
-- Barbara MarciniakSource : Barbara Marciniak (2010). “Path of Empowerment: New Pleiadian Wisdom for a World in Chaos”, p.4, New World Library
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The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.
-- Bear Grylls -
The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
-- Bette Davis -
When someone is unrelentingly critical of you, always finds fault, can never be pleased, and blames you for everything that goes wrong, it is the insidious nature and cumulative effects of the abuse that do the damage. Over time, this type of abuse eats away at your self-confidence and sense of self-worth, undermining any good feelings you have about yourself and about your accomplishments .
-- Beverly EngelSource : Beverly Engel (2002). “The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing”, p.29, John Wiley & Sons
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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 EngelSource : "Emotionally Abused Women". Online Chat, www.healthyplace.com.
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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