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"The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in and I've been shooting it ever since."
Kareem Abdul-Jabar
"Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense."
Thomas Arnold Bennett
"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."
William Jennings Bryan
"You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through."
Rosalynn Smith Carter
"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"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."
Clement of Rome
"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."
J. Lawton Collins
"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."
Marie Curie
"Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy."
The Dhammapada
"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."
Albert Einstein
"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us."
Epicurus
"We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help when in need."
Epicurus
"You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference."
Chris(tine) Marie Evert
"Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need."
François de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
"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]"
Peter Fitzgerald
"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."
Robert Lee Frost
"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."
Marcus
"Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt."
Kahlil Gibran
"Man talking confidently about God is like a toy talking confidently about man."
B. J. Gupta
"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."
Arsenio Hall
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