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Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

once, when I was a young lady and on a night express ... I was awakened by a man coming in from the corridor and taking hold of my leg ... Quite as much to my own astonishment as his, I uttered the most appalling growl that ever came out of a tigress. He fled, poor man, without a word: and I lay there, trembling slightly, not at my escape but at my potentialities.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

One of my mottos is flaunt what you've got left.

One's self-image is very important because if that's in good shape, then you can do anything, or practically anything.

Only the drum is confident, it thinks the world has not changed

Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.

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.

Our success at friendship, business, sports, love--indeed, at nearly every enterprise we attempt--is largely determined by our self-image. People who have a confidence in their personal worth seem to be magnets for success and happiness.

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.

People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.

People are timid and apologetic; they are no longer upright; they dare not say "I think," "I am," but quote some saint or sage. They are ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day.

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you've figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence.

Pledge that you will look in the mirror and find the unique beauty in you.

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.

Poise and indifference so often look the same.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach.

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.

Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging, therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried.

Put your future in good hands. Your own.

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.

Research has shown over and over again that the more you acknowledge your past successes, the more confident you become in taking on and successfully accomplishing new ones.

Ronald Reagans vision of smaller government, less taxes, and a strong national defense has led to a prosperous America. As president, he rebuilt our military and reinvigorated our confidence in ourselves.

Sadly, if we are not confident about our choices, we can easily let other peoples' comments make us feel guilty and ruin the joy we need to experience in life through doing the little things that mean a lot to us.

Security is mortal's chiefest enemy.

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think. It cannot be replaced by one's power to deceive. The self-confidence of a scientist and the self-confidence of a con man are not interchangeable states, and do not come from the same psychological universe. The success of a man who deals with reality augments his self-confidence. The success of a con man augments his panic.

Self trust is the essence of heroism.

Self worth cannot be verified by others. You are worthy because you say it is so. If you depend on others for your value it is other-worth.

Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.

Self-assurance doesn't come from looking perfect and having a great title, but from accepting yourself with all you mistakes and eccentricities.

Self-confidence comes naturally when your inner life and your outer life are in harmony.

Self-confidence is not hope; it is the self-judgment of your own internal forces in their relation to the world without, which results from the failure of many hopes and the non-realization of many fears.

Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.

Self-confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk-running and chance-taking are the only ways to catch it.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.

self-possession is the ability to face without fear life in all its contradictions.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.