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May you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people.

Mediocrity is a hand-rail.

Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves.

Men give their confidence at once, but never their money.

Most frequently we make confidants from vanity, a love of talking, a wish to win the confidence of others, and to make an exchange of secrets.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Never ask for approval in your work. Life is your own, inspiration is your own, you create alone, and the results are your own - and that's good enough.

Never participate in the secrets of those above you; you think you share the fruit, and you share the stones - the confidence of a prince is not a grant, but a tax

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly.

No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.

Nothing can be achieved without hope or confidence. Be sure you always have both!

Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that makes it.

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

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

Obviously it's one of my biggest wins, and especially after a long layoff, to come back out and win in my fifth start means a lot. I've been working hard on my game and been working hard on me, and so it means a great deal to have some success right out of the gate. It gives me a lot of confidence, too.

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

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.

Poise and indifference so often look the same.

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.

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

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.