Self-Confidence

(304 votes)   The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

Mahatma Gandhi
1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader

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(235 votes)   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.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(210 votes)   Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.

Franklin P. Adams
1881-1960, American Journalist, Humorist

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(147 votes)   Watch my dust.

Babe Ruth
1895-1948, American Baseball Player

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(129 votes)   The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence.

George S. Patton
1885-1945, American Army General during World War II

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(127 votes)   Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.

Phillips Brooks
1835-1893, American Minister, Poet

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(118 votes)   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.

Virginia Woolf
1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist

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(111 votes)   Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.

Virginia Woolf
1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist

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(107 votes)   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.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(105 votes)   I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence.

Edgar Allan Poe
1809-1845, American Poet, Critic, short-story Writer

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(104 votes)   If you are prepared, then you are able to feel confident.

Robert J. Ringer
American Writer

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(97 votes)   Assurance is two-thirds of success.

Gaelic Proverbs
Sayings of Gaelic Origin

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(97 votes)   The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion.

Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

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(76 votes)   A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

Lazarus Long

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(75 votes)   There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude -- confidence in self.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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