1,616 Quotes About Self-confidence

  • Author Wangari Maathai
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    Disempowerment - whether defined in terms of a lack of self-confidence , apathy, fear, or an inability to take charge of one's own life - is perhaps the most unrecognised problem in Africa today.

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  • Author George Packer
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    Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.

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  • Author George S. Patton
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    ...It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability.

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  • Author Joseph Pilates
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    Through the Pilates Method of Body Conditioning this unique trinity of a balanced body, mind and spirit can ever be attained. Self-confidence follows.

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  • Author Katha Pollitt
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    If a woman says, I am getting these breast implants to gain self confidence, then I have to ask, What kind of a society do we live in where a woman's self-confidence depends on having a dangerous, expensive and painful operation on a perfectly healthy body?

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  • Author Ron Perlman
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    My self-confidence didn't come from my appearance, it came from other things that I did. But certainly not my appearance.

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