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Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

Oprah Winfrey
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Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks. -Joe Paterno
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The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.

Hasidic Saying
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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

William Hazlitt
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There is only one security, and when you've lost that security, you've lost everything you've got. And that is the security of confidence in yourself; to be, to create, to make any position you want to make for yourself. And when you lose that confidence, you've lost the only security you can have. ... Self-confidence is self-determinism. One's belief in one's ability to determine his own course.  -L. Ron Hubbard
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You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know to be arrogant about it.

Ruben Studdard
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Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

Baltasar Gracian
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Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger. -Arnold Palmer
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson
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Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.

Channing Pollock
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Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. -Joseph Wood Krutch
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He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

William Congreve
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I've tried everything. I can say to you with confidence, I know a fair amount about LSD. I've never been a social user of any of these things, but my curiosity has carried me into a lot of interesting areas.

Dan Rather
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Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't. -Rufus Wainwright
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If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.

David Storey
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Doctors still retain a high degree of public confidence because they are perceived as healers. Should lawyers not be healers? Healers, not warriors? Healers, not procurers? Healers, not hired guns? -Warren E. Burger
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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.

Norman Vincent Peale
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Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

Malcolm Muggeridge
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Confidence is the foundation for all business relations. The degree of confidence a man has in others, and the degree of confidence others have in him, determines a man's standing in the commercial and industrial world. -William J. H. Boetcker
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence - and then success is sure.

Mark Twain
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Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

Arnold Bennett
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It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever. -Philip Adams
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Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.

Potter Stewart
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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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Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. -Shakti Gawain
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I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

Mark Twain
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In the middle of a world that had always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence.

Rose F. Kennedy
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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
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