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~ Be proud to wear you. ~ Dodinsky
~ You have to believe in yourself. ~ Sun Tzu ~ Mediocrity is a hand-rail. ~ Charles Louis de Secondat ~ Humor comes from self-confidence. ~ Rita Mae Brown ~ Whatever you say, say it with conviction. ~ Mark Twain ~ Insist on yourself; never imitate. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ Self-preservation is the first law of nature. ~ Samuel Butler ~ Self-confidence is the memory of success. ~ David Storey ~ Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem. ~ Eric Hoffer ~ Confidence is the hinge on the door to success. ~ Anonymous ~ Danger breeds best on too much confidence. ~ Pierre Corneille ~ Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. ~ George Herbert ~ It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. ~ Edmund Hillary ~ Wealth brings strength, strength confidence. ~ John Lothrop Motley ~ If you are going to doubt something, doubt your limits. ~ Don Ward ~ You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.~ Zig Ziglar ~ To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance. ~ Oscar Wilde ~ A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows. ~ John Powell ~ Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves. ~ William Hazlitt ~ Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands. ~ Francis Bacon ~ Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. ~ Potter Stewart ~ The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others. ~ Sonya Friedman ~ Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves. ~ Nathaniel Branden ~ Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it. ~ Stan Smith ~ No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~ And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves. ~ Marianne Williamson ~ Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers. ~ Mignon McLaughlin ~ It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not. ~ Anonymous ~ The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money. ~ James Madison ~ The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do. ~ Anonymous ~ When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~ African Proverb ~ Whoever puts his confidence in men or in any creature is very foolish. ~ Thomas Kempis ~ Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame. ~ Thomas à Kempis ~ I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.~ Michel de Montaigne ~ Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level. ~ Max L. Forman ~ Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what. ~ Erma Bombeck ~ We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs. ~ Robert Brault ~ He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue. ~ John Ruskin ~ Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. ~ Malcolm S. Forbes ~ Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. ~ Henry David Thoreau ~ Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong. ~ Peter T. Mcintyre ~ There is no worse screen to block out the spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.~ John Calvin ~ The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing. ~ Theodore Roosevelt ~ If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. ~ Thomas Alva Edison ~ The horizon, to remind you of your courage, sends its gentle waves of confidence to kiss your feet. ~ Dodinsky ~ Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself. ~ Robert Collier ~ Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do. ~ Lillian Hellman ~ We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do. ~ Olin Miller ~ What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~ Henry S. Haskins ~ Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. ~ Joseph Campbell ~ Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. ~ Helen Keller ~ When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality. ~ Joe Paterno ~ We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. ~ Carlos Castaneda ~ Your value is the product of your thoughts. Do not miscalculate your self worth by multiplying your insecurities. ~ Dodinsky ~ It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. ~ Rene Descartes ~ Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. ~ Norman Vincent Peale ~ Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. ~ Mary Kay Ash ~ How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it. ~ Robert Brault ~ When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things. ~ Marianne Williamson ~ We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies. ~ Roderick Thorp ~ You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose. ~ Lou Holtz and John Heisler ~ Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one would lie in his place. ~ Henry Louis Mencken ~ Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else. ~ Mignon McLaughlin ~ Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero ~ Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy. ~ Lao Tzu ~ A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.~ Robert A. Heinlein ~ The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled. ~ Andrew Carnegie ~ With confidence, you can reach truly amazing heights; without confidence, even the simplest accomplishments are beyond your grasp. ~ Marianne Williamson ~ If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero ~ Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence. ~ Benjamin Spock ~ 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 Andrew Adams |
~ I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.~ Louisa May Alcott State Of Mind ~ If you think you are beaten, you are; If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won't. If you think you'll lose, you've lost, For out in the world we find Success being with a fellow's will; It's all in the state of mind. If you think you're outclassed, you are: You've got to think high to rise. You've got to be sure of yourself before You can ever win a prize. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man, But soon or late the man who wins Is the one who thinks he can. ~ Walter D. Wintle ~ One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.~ Oscar Wilde ~ In the middle of a world that had always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence.~ Rose F. Kennedy ~ If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. ~ Vincent Van Gogh ~ Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. ~ Veronica A. Shoffstall ~ You gainstrength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along'. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~ The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it. ~ JM Barrie ~ Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained. ~ Marie Curie |