Quotes on Confidence

The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself "makes things go" and creates confidence.Anne McCormick

• confidence
• decisiveness

This country [America] was not built by men who relied on somebody else to take care of them. It was built by men who relied on themselves, who dared to shape their own lives, who had enough courage to blaze new trails - enough confidence in themselves to take the necessary risks.J. Ollie Edmunds

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• Americans
• America
• independence
• risk
• self reliance
• initiative
• chance

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.King Whitney Jr.

• confidence
• fear
• optimism
• change

I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.Bette Davis

• confidence
• humility

To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor; to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach east by traveling west. There is no philosphy which will help man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so, and thus attracting failure. No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.Charles Baudouin

• confidence
• thought
• success
• failure
• subconscious

Practice audacity in all things. Acting with courage builds your courage and confidence higher and higher.Brian Tracy

• courage
• confidence

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• confidence
• initiative

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All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.William Halsey

• confidence
• initiative
• boldness

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.Cicero

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