Quotes about self-confidence

"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation."

Ashe, Arthur on self-confidence
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"The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity."

Gandhi, Mahatma on self-confidence
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"Self-confidence is the result of a successfully survived risk."

Gibb, Jack on self-confidence
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"Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something."

Huxley, Aldous on self-confidence
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"A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity."

Long, Lazarus on self-confidence
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"I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything."

Melbourne, Lord on self-confidence   

"True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on self-confidence
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"The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence."

Patton, George S. on self-confidence
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"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence."

Poe, Edgar Allan on self-confidence
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"Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed."

Pollock, Channing on self-confidence
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"There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude -- confidence in self."

Seneca on self-confidence
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"It is easy -- terribly easy -- to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work."

Shaw, George Bernard on self-confidence
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"Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you."

White, Stewart E. on self-confidence
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"Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradles. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself."

Woolf, Virginia on self-confidence   

"I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."

Whitman, Walt on self-confidence   

"Be courageous, believe in yourself, and be the best woman you can be. I'm with you all the way."

Anderson, Gillian on self-confidence   

"Be like the bird who, halting in his flight on a limb too slight, yet sings, knowing he has wings."

Victor Hugo on self-confidence
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