Quotes and Sayings About Confidence
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If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.
-- A. A. Milne -
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.
-- Adnan Pachachi -
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I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
-- Al Neuharth -
I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.
-- Alain Prost -
Wouldn't it be powerful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do just about anything if you knew it would make you happy? This is precisely how much life loves you and wants you to nurture yourself. The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.
-- Alan Cohen -
Our success at friendship, business, sports, love--indeed, at nearly every enterprise we attempt--is largely determined by our self-image. People who have a confidence in their personal worth seem to be magnets for success and happiness.
-- Alan Loy McGinnis -
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We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.
-- Alan Shearer -
Many men are like unto sausages: Whatever you stuff them with, that they will bear in them.
-- Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy -
To lose faith in oneself is to cease to create; to cease to create is to cease to exist.
-- Alice Tisdale Hobart -
we are the ones we have been waiting for
-- Alice WalkerSource : Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.342, The New Press
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Yet you should practice the greatest possible love and confidence in treating with Him.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
Not only is there no need of an intermediary through whom He would want you to speak to Him, but He finds His delight in having you treat with Him personally and in all confidence.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
With such thoughts in your mind, now that you have resolved to love Him and please Him with all your strength, your only fear should be to fear God too much and to place too little confidence in Him.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
Right now I have more confidence in myself. I grew up.
-- Amelie MauresmoSource : The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.
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There's nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn't.
-- Amy ChuaSource : Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, p.17, Bloomsbury Publishing
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Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
-- Andre Maurois -
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
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Community service has taught me all kinds of skills and increased my confidence. You go out there and think on your feet, work with others and create something from nothing. That's what life's all about.
-- Andrew Shue -
The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.
-- Andy Rooney -
Confidence is something you acquire in yourself by believing in self ability with courage and conviction.
-- Anil Sinha -
Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
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I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
-- Anna Freud -
Confidence is a plant of slow growth ...
-- Anna LeonowensSource : Speech in 'Hansard' 14 January 1766, col. 97
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The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-- Anna QuindlenSource : Anna Quindlen (2009). “Being Perfect”, p.15, Random House
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No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
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Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
-- Anthony TrollopeSource : 'The Small House at Allington' (1864) ch. 32
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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
-- Aristotle