• I sometimes lack confidence in public, although I am proud enough inwardly.

  

  Robert Schumann

  MusicianGerman1810 · 19th century

  4.9 · 10 votes · 83 reads

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• If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.6 · 6 votes · 189 reads

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• It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.5 · 7 votes · 196 reads

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• Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  3.2 · 52 votes · 79 reads

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• Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

  

  Joseph Addison

  PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century

  4.4 · 9 votes · 0 reads

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• Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

  

  William James

  PhilosopherAmerican1842 · 19th century

  4.5 · 20 votes · 123 reads

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• People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  3.6 · 34 votes · 25 reads

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• Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.

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  Peter Ustinov

  WriterBritish1921 · 20th century

  4.3 · 60 votes · 41 reads

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• Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.0 · 24 votes · 74 reads

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• Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failure. In the assurance of strength there is strength, and, they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.

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  Christian Nestell Bovee

  AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century

  3.3 · 16 votes · 63 reads

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• Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.8 · 51 votes · 198 reads

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

  

  André Maurois

  WriterFrench1885 · 19th century

  3.5 · 59 votes · 186 reads

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• The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  4.6 · 29 votes · 144 reads

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• The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  3.3 · 43 votes · 157 reads

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• The values of the Walt Disney company: The four C s: Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, Consistency, and the greatest of these is Confidence.

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  Anonymous

  4.5 · 57 votes · 38 reads

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• There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.5 · 29 votes · 21 reads

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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.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.1 · 28 votes · 60 reads

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• To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It's about stimulating them. It's about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.

  

  Christine Lagarde

  EconomistFrench1956 · 20th century

  3.1 · 52 votes · 184 reads

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• True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 24 votes · 154 reads

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• Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.

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  Neil Armstrong

  AstronautAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.9 · 31 votes · 158 reads

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• Who ever does not respect confidence will never find happiness in their path.

  

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