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Confidence Quotes

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The wise treat self-respect as non-negotiable, and will not trade it for health or wealth or anything else.

Thomas Szasz The Second Sin (1973)

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.

John Herschel A Toolbox for Humanity : More Than 9000 Years of Thought (2004)

Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

Martha Gellhorn Travels with Myself and Another: A Memoir (1978)

If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Insulted and the Injured (1861)

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So only can you be true to God.

Theodore Parker Two Sermons (1853)

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

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

Ignorance and confidence are constant companions.

John McAfee Into the Heart of Truth (2001)

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Joan Didion

Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil.

Theodore Roosevelt

Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.

Joan Didion

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Pierre Corneille Le Cid (1636)

I would have some confidence with you that decerns you nearly.

William Shakespeare

Where men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have there given reins to passion, without that proper deliberation and suspense, which can alone secure them from the grossest absurdities.

David Hume An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751)

I guess I was never much in awe of anybody. I think you have to have that attitude if you're going to go far in this game.

Bob Gibson

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

William Hazlitt Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

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

Cicero

SELF-ESTEEM, n. An erroneous appraisement.

Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

Self-respect — The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

H. L. Mencken A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.

Ayn Rand The Ayn Rand Letter (1971)

It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior.

Nathaniel Branden The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem (1994)

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