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Confidence Quotes
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Nobody can make you feel

inferior without your consent.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
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It took me a long time not to judge
myself through someone else's eyes.
~Sally Field
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It's not who you are that holds you
back, it's who you think you're not.
~Author Unknown
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It ain't what they call you,
it's what you answer to.
~W.C. Fields
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Whether you think you can
or think you can't - you are right.
~Henry Ford
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I quit being afraid
when my first venture failed
and the sky didn't fall down.
~Allen H. Neuharth

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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
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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
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If you really put a small value
upon yourself, rest assured that the
world will not raise your price.
~Author Unknown
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Confidence comes not from
always being right but from
not fearing to be wrong.
~Peter T. Mcintyre
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Argue for your limitations and
sure enough, they're yours.
~Richard Bach, Illusions
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You have to expect things of

yourself before you can do them.
~Michael Jordan
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It is not the mountain we
conquer but ourselves.
~Edmund Hillary
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Nothing splendid has ever been
achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of
them was superior to circumstance.
~Bruce Barton
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Aerodynamically the bumblebee
shouldn't be able to fly, but the
bumblebee doesn't know that
so it goes on flying anyway.
~Mary Kay Ash
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People are crying up the rich and
variegated plumage of the peacock,
and he is himself blushing
at the sight of his ugly feet.
~Sa'Di
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Other people's opinion of you does
not have to become your reality.
~Les Brown
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You have brains

in your head.
You have feet
in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
in any direction you choose.
You're on your own. And
you know what you know.
You are the guy who'll
decide where to go.
~Dr. Seuss
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Knock the "t" off the "can't."
~Samuel Johnson
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They are the weakest,
however strong, who
have no faith in themselves
or their own powers.
~Christian Bovee
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I have great faith in fools;
self-confidence my friends call it.
~Edgar Allan Poe
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Anyone who ever gave you
confidence, you owe them a lot.
~Truman Capote,
Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958
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What lies behind us

and what lies before us

are tiny matters compared
to what lies within us.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Never dull your shine
for somebody else.
~Tyra Banks
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If we all did the things
we are capable of doing,
we would literally
astound ourselves.
~Thomas Alva Edison
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Always hold your head up,
but be careful to keep your
nose at a friendly level.
~Max L. Forman
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Our doubts are traitors,
and make us lose the good
we oft might win,
by fearing to attempt.
~William Shakespeare,
Measure for Measure, 1604
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Spirit can walk,
spirit can swim,
spirit can climb,
spirit can crawl.
There is no terrain

you cannot overcome.

~Irisa Hail
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Just as much as we see
in others we have in ourselves.
~William Hazlitt
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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
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Don't let anyone
steal your dream.
It's your dream,
not theirs.
~Dan Zadra
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All of us have wonders
hidden in our breasts,
only needing circumstances
to evoke them.
~Charles Dickens
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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
if there is light from within.

~Elisabeth Kbler-Ross