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  I have the absolute confidence not to be number two, but then I have enough sense, also to realize that there can be no number one.

  Bruce Lee

  Topics in Confidence

  Tags in Absolute, Realize

• Women are always told, ‘You’re not going to make it, its too difficult, you can’t do that, don’t enter this competition, you’ll never win it,’ – they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on.

  Zaha Hadid

  Topics in Confidence

  Tags in Competition, Difficult
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  Confidence, not cockiness. Knowing who you are is confidence. Cockiness is knowing who you are and pushing it down everyone’s throat.

  Mila Kunis

  Topics in Confidence

  Tags in Down, Pushing

• Being out of a job can erode people’s confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as a signal that something is wrong.

  James Surowiecki

  Topics in Confidence

  Tags in Unemployment, Possibility

• Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.

  Charles Stanley

  Topics in Confidence

  Tags in Talented, Erosion
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  If my mind can conceive it, & my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

  Jesse Jackson

  Topics in Confidence, Motivational

  Tags in Imagination, Courage
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  The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Topics in Confidence

  Tags in Impossible

• Coincidences give you opportunities to look more deeply into your existence.

  Doug Dillon

  Topics in Confidence, Inspirational
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  Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

  Helen Keller

  Topics in Achievement, Confidence

  Tags in Optimism, Hope, Faith

• Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

  Stephen R. Covey

  Topics in Confidence

  Tags in Awareness, Change, Freedom, Talent, Choice, Imagination, Conscience

• Confidence will get you further than cockiness.

  Unknown

  Topics in Confidence

• The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

  Robert Hughes

  Topics in Art, Confidence

  Tags in Doubt, Perfect

• Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

  Charles Darwin

  Topics in Confidence, Knowledge

  Tags in School, Ignorance, Science
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  Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Confidence

  Tags in Heart, Down
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  Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love.

  Lao Tzu

  Topics in Confidence, Kindness

  Tags in Profoudness

• A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.

  Lao Tzu

  Topics in Confidence, Fear

  Tags in Strength, Courage

• That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other.

  Isaac Barrow

  Topics in Confidence

  Tags in Men, Mind

• It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.

  Ivan Petrovich Pavlov

  Topics in Confidence, Respect

  Tags in Time

• My habit would have been to veer towards the dark – to prove I was something; edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that’s true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do things well. And can be more loving than you expect.

  George Saunders

  Topics in Confidence

  Tags in Habit, Maybe

• If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Topics in Attitude, Confidence, Expectations, Success