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Assurance is two-thirds of success.
-Scottish Proverb
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Who ever does not respect confidence will never find happiness in their path.
-Proverb
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I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.
-Hank Aaron
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Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.
-Franklin Pierce Adams
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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
-Joseph Addison
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It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself.
-Muhammad Ali
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He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul.
-James Allen
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Be courageous, believe in yourself, and be the best woman you can be. I'm with you all the way.
-Gillian Anderson
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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
-Aristotle
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Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
-Mary Kay Ash
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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
-Arthur Ashe
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He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.
-Red Auerbach
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One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.
-Boiste
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Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failure. In the assurance of strength there is strength, and, they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
-Christian Nevell Bovee
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The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.
-Sharon Anthony Bower
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What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.
-Terry Bradshaw
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Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.
-Phillips Brooks
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Confidence is always overconfidence.
-Robert Byrne
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I build confidence when I practice a variety of shots - hitting it high or low, working the ball. A lot of golfers go to the range and just hit full shots. That doesn't build on-course confidence, because you won't always hit full shots out there. My confidence is built on knowing I can effectively work the ball in any circumstance.
-JoAnne Carner
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You have to believe in yourself, that's the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.
-Charlie Chaplin
In Reader's Digest, 1 Jan 1982
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The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak.
-Ralph Charell
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If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It's very important to be aware of them every time they come up.
-Deepak Chopra
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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
-Confucius
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Books about Confidence
