Confidence Quotes And Sayings

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“Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.” 
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“People are like stained-glass windows.  They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.”
– Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.” 
– Ella Maillart

“The things we hate about ourselves aren’t more real than things we like about ourselves.”
– Ellen Goodman

“It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.”
– Epicurus

“Chiefly the mold of a man’s fortune is in his own hands.”
– Francis Bacon

“Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.” 
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“A gold medal is a nice thing – but if you’re not enough without it, you’ll never be enough with it.”
– From Cool Runnings

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.  Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.  It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.  We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?  Actually, who are you not to be?  You are a child of God.  Your playing small does not serve the world.  There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.  We are all meant to shine, as children do.  We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.  It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.  And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.  As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
– Gene Fowler,Skyline

“[Self-]assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.”
– George Santayana

“I’ve finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?”
– Goldie Hawn

“I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.”
– Hafiz

“It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.”
– Hanoch McCarty

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” 
– Helen Keller

“If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.”
– Henrik Ibsen

“What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you are right.”
– Henry Ford

“Every day we slaughter our finest impulses.  That is why we get a heart-ache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty.  Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.  We all derive from the same source.  There is no mystery about the origin of things.  We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, to discover what is already there.”
– Henry Miller

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” 
– Henry S. Haskins

“There are offences given and offences not given but taken.”
– Izaak Walton

“To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.” 
– Janeane Garofalo

“Pay no attention to what the critics say.  A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.”
– Jean Sibelius

“Don’t you dare, for one more second, surround yourself with people who are not aware of the greatness that you are.”
– Jo Blackwell-Preston

“When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.” 
– Joe Namath

“Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.” 
– Joe Paterno

“What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty!  I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.”
– John Bunyan

“Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.” 
– John Haggai

“A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.”
– John Powell

“I am not a has-been.  I am a will be.”
– Lauren Bacall

“Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.”
– Les Brown

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