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They are able because
they think they are able.

Virgil

   

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.

Bruce Barton

      

If one burdens the future with one's worries, it cannot grow organically.  I am filled with confidence, not that I shall succeed in worldly things, but that even when things go badly for me I shall still find life good and worth living.

Etty Hillesum

  

Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. . . they are the weakest,
however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

Christian Bovee

   
I believe that in our constant search for security we can
never gain any peace of mind until we secure our own soul.
And this I do believe above all, especially in my times
of greatest discouragement, that I must believe--that I
must believe in my fellow people--that I must believe in myself--that I must believe in God--if life is to have
any meaning.

Margaret Chase Smith
  

It is only a person's own fundamental thoughts that have
truth and life in them.  For it is these that he or she really
and completely understands.  To read the thoughts of others
is like taking the remains of someone else's meal,
like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Arthur Schopenhauer

   
  
  

Confidence . . . thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations,
on faithful protection and on unselfish performance.  Without them it cannot live.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
    

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.  This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.  It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.  It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
   

If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't
accomplish it.  You have to have confidence in your ability,
and then be tough enough to follow through.

Rosalynn Carter
  

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that
a person would stake his or her life on it a thousand times. This confidence
in God's grace and knowledge of it makes people glad and bold and happy
in dealing with God and with all his creatures; and this is the work of
the Holy Ghost in faith. Hence a person is ready and glad, without compulsion,
to do good to everyone, to serve everyone, to suffer everything,
in love and praise of God, who has shown him or her this grace.

Martin
Luther
   
  

Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear
in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.

Kate Seredy
  

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that insures the successful outcome of our venture.

William James

Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence people have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.

W. Bourke Cockran
  

The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth
to much of that which we have in others.

La Rochefoucauld

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Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent.
Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed;
be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

Sydney Smith
   

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, at whatever cost, must be attained.

Marie Curie
  

Be like the bird
That, pausing in her flight
Awhile on boughs too slight,
Feels them give way
Beneath her and yet sings,
Knowing that she hath wings.

Victor Hugo
  

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Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky.
Class has nothing to do with money.  Class never runs scared.
It is self-discipline and self-knowledge.  It's the sure-footedness
that comes with having proved you can meet life.

Ann Landers
  

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part
in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief,
the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

  

Nobody holds a good opinion of a person
who has a low opinion of him or herself.

Anthony Trollope
 
 
I build confidence when I practice a variety of shots - hitting it high or low, working the ball.
A lot of golfers go to the range and just hit full shots. That doesn't build on-course confidence,
because you won't always hit full shots out there. My confidence is built on knowing
I can effectively work the ball in any circumstance.

JoAnne Carner
  

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks
in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Marcus T. Cicero
   

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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance,
and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

Orison Swett Marden

 

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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 enlightening about shrinking so that
other people won't feel unsure around you.  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.
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.

Marianne Williamson
(often attributed to Nelson Mandela, 
who used it in his 1994 inaugural address)