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The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.

What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely...

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This is your life, not someone else's. It is your own feeling of what is important, not what people ...

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The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it i...

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I'm glad I never feel important it does complicate life.

More people are ruined by victory I imagine than by defeat.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear ...

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Eleanor RooseveltYou Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.

Miss Benson had the power; which some people have, of carrying her wishes through to fulfillment; he...

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Step forward out of your own lingering residual sense of smallness, take up every inch of life that ...

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We need to have far less confidence in what man can do and far moreconfidence in what God can do for...

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Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends ...

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We never know how high we areTill we are called to rise;And then, if we are true to plan,Our stature...

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I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me...

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It’s almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I’m ...

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Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what.

no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for hersel...

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He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his en...

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I have always loved fashion because it's a great way to express your mood. And I'm definitely a shoe...

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To all my enemies, I will destroy it.

I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who n...

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It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it is ridiculous to show it to others.

Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself.

Would a bird build its nest if it did not have its instinct for confidence in the world?

You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All thin...

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Walk amongst the natives by day, but in your heart be Superman.

Might could would-they are contemptible auxiliaries.

Those who trust us educate us.

Skill and confidence are an uncon-quered army.

The main obstacle to success he soon discovered to be Letty's exceeding distrust of herself. I would...

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Our Lord speaks of many coming up to His door confident of admission, whom He yet sends away. Faith ...

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For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life trying to impress the 'natives,' an...

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Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them you...

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Be courteous to all but intimate with few and let those few be well tried before you give them you...

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I have been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I have never let it keep me from doing ...

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I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.

We are always the same age inside.

She was tall and well-made, on an ample scale; her skin looked as if it had the flavour of fresh cre...

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Self-esteem isn't everything it's just that there's nothing without it.

As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.

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Gloria SteinemRevolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

As you walk your various paths, walk with faith. Speak affirmatively and cultivate an attitude of co...

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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

Self-confidence depends on environment: one does not speak in the same tone in the drawing room than...

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It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. It matters what you think of yourself and what your child...

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His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and bea...

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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty ...

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If there's any guy crazy enough to attack me, I'm going to show him the end of the world -- close up...

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This is the key to the entire universe. You know what this is? It's not a microphone, this right her...

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Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as ...

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Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt and limps off the field piteous all disguises throw...

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You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his...

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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yours...

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Citizens, the priority now is to recover trust between the Egyptian - amongst the Egyptians and to h...

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But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are ...

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Howard ZinnYou Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

Perhaps I'd been a slow developer, but I was well into my forties before I realized that you don't h...

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I believe that only scientists can understand the universe. It is not so much that I have confidence...

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It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonsc...

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It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting...

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The world-wide discrimination against the autodidact has vitiated many people's confidence in determ...

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Ivan IllichThe Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies

Play to your strengths.""I haven’t got any," said Harry, before he could stop himself."Excuse me," g...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

...the restaurant itself is weird especially because of a big raunch mad thicklipped sloppy young Fi...

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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human...

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Public corruption is the FBI's top criminal priority. The threat - which involves the corruption of ...

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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it.

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Jane AustenNorthanger Abbey

The trust institutions have in the marketplace, the confidence customers and suppliers and workers a...

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I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more ...

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You can turn off the sun but I'm still gonna shine.

I want to be judged by who I am as a person, not by what happened to me. In fact, all the bad things...

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Jenna JamesonHow to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale

He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly bec...

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I've never had a humble opinion in my life. If you're going to have one why bother to be humble abo...

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To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have ev...

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I felt a comedy ego beginning to grow which gave me the courage to begin tentatively looking into m...

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We Can't Afford to Doubt Ourselves I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it t...

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There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

They conquer who believe they can.

He had the charm of all people who believe implicitly in themselves, that of integration.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you ...

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Oftentimes nothing profits more than self-esteem grounded on what is just and right and well-manage...

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Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.

Even the demons are encouraged when their chief is "not lost in loss itself.

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will ...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will ...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will ...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will ...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

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John RuskinThe Stones of Venice: Volume I. The Foundations

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you t...

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Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fea...

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It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.