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Quotes About Confidence

Fate loves the fearless.
~ James Russell Lowell
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
~ James Russell Lowell
What she looked, Driver thought, was completely comfortable with herself, a quality uncommon enough anywhere, and one so remarkable in trendy, self-reinventive L.A., as to appear truly subversive.
~ James Sallis
Practise your confidence tricks on the street and you risk getting shot by trigger-happy security guards; do it in the office and you get put on the board.
~ James Scudamore
No, Michael, I do not trust you on a boat, I do not trust you on a goat. I do not trust you here. I do not trust you there. I do not trust you anywhere.
~ James St. James
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle.
~ James Surowiecki
You are never so certain as when you don't know just how wrong you can be
~ James Swallow
be cool. God created you that way
~ James Swanson
Always do your absolute best. When you do your absolute best you can ALWAYS Expect To Win.
~ James Thomas Sr.
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
~ James Thurber
animal in the sitter (a tendency that
~ Donna Tartt
It does not to do be frightened of things about which you know nothing,' he said. 'You are like children. Afraid of the dark.
~ Donna Tartt
true. Put your foot down and demand it!
~ Doreen Virtue
One-time rival and subsequent usurper Secretary of State Seward finally settled into an assessment of Lincoln that, His confidence and compassion increase every day.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
faith never foundered that if the people "were taken into the confidence of their government and received a full and truthful statement of what was happening, they would generally choose the right course.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
Roosevelt repeatedly "brought his clenched fist down on the palm of his other hand.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
What convinces is conviction," Johnson liked to say. "You simply have to believe in the argument you are advancing." In this instance, Johnson spoke directly from the heart.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
To answer those who asked if Lincoln would reconsider, Douglass gave an emphatic no. "Abraham Lincoln will take no step backward," he insisted. "If he has taught us to confide in nothing else, he has taught us to confide in his word.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
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~ Doris Lessing
Dixon Steele: You know, when you first walked into the police station, I said to myself, "There she is — the one that's different. She's not coy or cute or corny. She's a good guy — I'm glad she's on my side. She speaks her mind and she knows what she wants." Laurel Gray: Thank you, sir. But let me add: I also know what I don't want — and I don't want to be rushed.
~ Dorothy B. Hughes
It doesn't do my self-esteem much good though, does it?' 'Your self-esteem has had a lifetime of steady attention,' said Philippa abstractedly.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Kate won't be troubled. I don't know any gentlemen, anyway.' 'Thank you,' said Lymond.
~ Dorothy Dunnett