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Richard L. Evans

http://www.rwe.org/works/Essays-1st_Series_02_Self-Reliance.htm

Lao-Tzu

Courage must come from the soul within, The man must furnish the will to win. So figure it out for yourself, my lad. You were born with all that the great have had, With your equipment they all began, Get hold of yourself and say: I can.

Leib Lazarow

(Recited by Dr. George Washington Carver during his commencement address at Selma University, Selma Alabama on May 27, 1942)

Samuel Johnson

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

Arsenio Hall

I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage. I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.

Kahlil Gibran

Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.

Epicurus

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help when in need.

Julius Henry Marx

I have nothing but confidence in you, and very little of that.

Epicurus

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Peter T. McIntyre

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.

Leib Lazarow

Who has confidence in himself will gain the confidene of others.

Mark Twain

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence then success is sure.

George Washington

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Samuel Johnson

Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

George Washington

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Rene Descartes

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

Samuel Johnson

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

Charles Hodge

The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.

Mary O'Hare Dumas

Confidence is the hinge on the door to success.

Doug McLeod

I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence.

Edgar Allan Poe

I have great faith in fools -- self confidence my friends call it.

Joe Paterno

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

William Pitt

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.

Marie Curie

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Aimee Mullins

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.

Chris Marie Evert

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

WORDSWORTH: _Ode to Duty._

The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live!

Roosevelt, Eleanor

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

B. C. Forbes

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

Abraham Maslow

Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.

Norman Vincent Peale

Believe in yourself Have faith in your abilities Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy

Benjamin McLane Spock

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny, he thinks he is in the world for something important and it gives him drive and confidence.

Zig Ziglar

Confidence is Going after Moby Dick in a rowboat, And taking the tarter sauce with you. A Bullfighter who goes in the ring with mustard on his sword.

J. Lawton Collins

No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage.

John Malkovich

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

Karl Kraus

Confidence in the principles of an enemy must remain even during war, otherwise a peace could never be concluded; and hostilities would degenerate into a war of extermination since war in fact is but the sad resource employed in a state of nature in defen

Jim Ryun

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. . . . You must do the thing

Peter Fitzgerald

You are perhaps the most accomplished confidence man since Charles Ponzi. I'd say you were a carnival barker, but that wouldn't be fair to carnival barkers. to former Enron CEO Keny Lay

Swami Sivanada

If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Clement of Rome

How blessed and amazing are God's gifts, dear friends Life with immortality, splendor with righteousness, truth with confidence, faith with assurance, self-control with holiness And all these things are within our comprehension.

Paul Sweezy

The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man.

A. Edward Newton

If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.

Philip Adams

It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.

Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

Baltasar Gracian

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

Michael Horton

When salvation is viewed as man's program, it is left up to man as to whether he will let God do this or that, but when it is viewed as God's program, there is a confidence and a certainty that no one whom God regenerates will be a carnal Christian.

Luella F. Phean

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.

The Dhammapada

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Bruce Barton

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

Brian Adams

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

William Jennings Bryan

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

Albert Einstein

In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it.

Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

If you have no confidence in [yourself] you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started.

If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you started.

The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.

I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, 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.

I have nothing but confidence in you. And very little of that.

The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.

Statisticians do it with 95% confidence.

Meet the sunrise with confidence.

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence -- and then success is sure.

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.

Every small, positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted in something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Self-confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk-running and chance-taking are the only ways to catch it.

All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you thi

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowlege: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.

I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

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.

For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, by causing them to neglect their memory, inasmuch as, from their confidence in writing, they will recollect by the external aid of foreign symbols, and not by the i

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow

"Confidence is when you are ignorant of the facts." - Hillary Rodham Clinton