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 | "A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little
courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity
prevented from making a first effort." | |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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| "All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then
success is sure." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as
you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you." | |
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Nicholai Velimirovic
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| "Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence
of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will
of God, ye might receive the promise." | |
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The Bible
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| "Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit." | |
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François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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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." | |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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| "Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the
situation." | |
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Unknown
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| "Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing
your temper or your self-confidence." | |
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Robert Frost
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| "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can
do a bigger thing well, too." | |
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Storey
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| "I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call
it." | |
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Edgar Allan Poe
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| "I have the most perfect confidence in your indiscretion." | |
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Sydney Smith
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| "If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of
turning some men into sacrificial animals, and ... if I were asked to
serve the interests of society apart from, above and against my own I
would refuse.... I would fight in the full confidence of the justice of my
battle and of a living being"s right to exist." | |
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Ayn Rand
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| "If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can
never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some
of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you
can"t fool all of the people all of the time." | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates
profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." | |
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Lao Tzu
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| "Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you
their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either
lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either
case is a failure of leadership." | |
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Karl Raimund Popper
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| "One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to
self-confidence is preparation." | |
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Arthur Ashe
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| "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done
without hope and confidence." | |
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Helen Adams Keller
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| "Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of
confidence except confidence in God alone." | |
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Karl Barth
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| "The dog that licks ashes is not to be trusted with flour." | |
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Proverb
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| "They can conquer who believe they can." | |
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Vergil
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| "They conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first
lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear." | |
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William James
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| "Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the
place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your
contemporaries, the connection of events." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in
which we really stop to look fear in the face.... We must do that which we
think we cannot." | |
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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| "When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you
have fun, you can do amazing things," | |
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Joe Namath
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