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#1

“No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.”
― Ansel Adams

tags: art, confidence, emotion, expression, freedom, perception, self-expression

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#2

“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”
― Carlos Castaneda

tags: confidence, inspirational

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#3

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

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#4

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

tags: ability, confidence, self-esteem

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#5

“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: confidence

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#6

“Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed.”
― Tiffany Madison

tags: confidence, independence, love, man, modern-society, relationships, women

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#7

“Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you.”
― Cynthia Kersey

tags: confidence, inspirational

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#8

“It’s the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.”
― Maya Angelou, Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women

tags: confidence, poetry, womanhood

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#9

“There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.”
― Marianne Williamson

tags: confidence

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#10

“When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true”
― Michael Jackson

tags: confidence, dreaming, inspirational, musician, wisdom

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#11

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti

tags: aspirations, confidence, dreams, goals

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#12

“It’s impossible,” he snapped.

“Why?”

“Because I’m Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent. I can’t be celibate. Everyone knows that.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Winter

tags: celibate, confidence, love, rake

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#14

“I believe with all my heart that the cliches are true, that we are our own best friends and best company, and that if you're not right for yourself, it's impossible to be right for anyone.”
― Rachel Machacek, The Science of Single: One Woman's Grand Experiment in Modern Dating, Creating Chemistry, and Finding Love

tags: confidence, dating, friends, relationships, self-esteem

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#15

“Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what.”
― Erma Bombeck

tags: confidence

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#16

“The only power that exists is inside ourselves.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

tags: confidence

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#17

“The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.”
― Robert Hand

tags: confidence, self, self-esteem, show-off

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#18

“Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.”
― Sophia Loren

tags: confidence

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#19

“Self-consciousness kills communication.”
― Rick Steves

tags: advice, communication, confidence, self-consciousness, speech, travel

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#20

“I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, " he explained. "I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

tags: confidence, doubt

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#21

“No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, A Stroke of Midnight

tags: confidence, inspirational

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#22

“And suddenly she knew exactly why Catherine had fallen in love with him. It wasn't that he was unusually attractive, or ambitious, or even charming. He was partly those things, but more important, he seemed to live life on his own terms.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle

tags: confidence

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#23

“Hard to feel confident when you’re surrounded by horse-sized wolves.
- Emmett Cullen”
― Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn

tags: confidence

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#24

“There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it; the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

tags: arrogance, cocky, cognition, confidence, conviction, ego, haters, humility, minority, offense, pride, right, superiority, wrong

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#25

“Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Война и мир

tags: confidence

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#26

“If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: confidence

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#27

“He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my thick bangs in need of a trim. They are still the pictures of myself I like best, for they convey that confidence of youth I no longer possess, especially in front of a camera.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth

tags: confidence, photography, photos, pictures, youth

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#28

“Life can take so many twists and turns. You can’t ever count yourself out. Even if you’re really afraid at some point, you can’t think that there’s no room for you to grow and do something good with your life.”
― Portia de Rossi

tags: confidence, fear, growth, life

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#29

“There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.”
― Samuel Johnson

tags: confidence, friendship, integrity

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#30

“Walk amongst the natives by day, but in your heart be Superman.”
― Gene Simmons

tags: confidence, rock-roll

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