Our
deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you NOT to be?
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve
the world.
There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that
other people won't feel unsure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is
within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
As we let our own Light shine, we unconsciously give
other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence
automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson
(often
attributed to Nelson Mandela,
who used it in his 1994 inaugural
address)
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It
is only a person's own fundamental thoughts that have
truth and life in them. For it is these that he or she really
and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others
is like taking the remains of someone else's meal,
like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Confidence . . . thrives on honesty, on
honor, on the sacredness of obligations,
on faithful
protection and on unselfish performance. Without
them it cannot live.
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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What I
must do is all that concerns me, not what the people
think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and
intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction
between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because
you will always find those who think they know what is
your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the
world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in
solitude to live after our own; but the great person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect
sweetness the independence of solitude.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson |
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If
you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't
accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your
ability,
and then be tough enough to follow through.
Rosalynn
Carter |
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Faith is a living,
daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain
that
a person would stake his or her life on it a thousand times.
This confidence
in God's grace and knowledge of it makes people glad and bold and happy
in dealing with God and with
all his creatures; and this is the work of
the Holy Ghost
in faith. Hence a person is ready and glad, without
compulsion,
to do good to everyone, to serve everyone, to
suffer everything,
in love and praise of God, who has
shown him or her this grace.
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Martin
Luther |
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Kill the snake of doubt in your soul,
crush the worms of fear
in your heart
and mountains will move out of your way.
Kate Seredy |
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Our
belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the
one thing that insures the successful outcome of our
venture.
William
James |
Underlying
the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence people
have in each other, confidence in their integrity,
confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.
W. Bourke Cockran |
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The
confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth
to much
of that which we have in others.
La
Rochefoucauld |
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I believe that in our
constant search for security we can never gain any peace
of mind
until we secure our own soul. And this I do
believe above all, especially in my times
of greatest
discouragement, that I must believe--that I must believe
in my fellow people--
that I must believe in myself--that I
must believe in God--if life is to have any meaning.
Margaret
Chase Smith |
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Whatever you are by nature, keep to
it; never desert your own line of talent.
Be what
nature intended you for, and you will succeed;
be
anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse
than nothing.
Sydney Smith |
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Be like
the bird
That, pausing in her flight
Awhile on boughs too slight,
Feels them give way
Beneath her and yet sings,
Knowing that she hath wings.
Victor
Hugo
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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, at
whatever cost, must be attained.
Marie
Curie |
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If one burdens the
future with one's worries, it cannot grow organically. I
am filled with confidence, not that I shall succeed in
worldly things, but that even when things go badly for me I shall still find life good and worth living.
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Self-distrust
is the cause of most of our failures. . . they are the
weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
Christian Bovee |
Nothing splendid has ever been
achieved except by those who dared believe that something
inside them
was superior to circumstances.
Bruce Barton |
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Class is an aura of confidence that is
being sure without being cocky.
Class has nothing to do
with money.
Class never runs scared.
It is self-discipline
and self-knowledge.
It's the sure-footedness that comes
with having proved you can meet life.
Ann Landers |
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Believe that with your
feelings
and your work you are taking part
in the
greatest;
the more strongly you cultivate
this belief,
the more will reality
and the world go forth from it.
Rainer Maria Rilke |
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a
person
who has a low opinion of him or herself.
Anthony Trollope |
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I
build confidence when I practice a variety of shots - hitting it high
or low, working the ball.
A lot of golfers go to the range and just
hit full shots. That doesn't build on-course confidence,
because you
won't always hit full shots out there. My confidence is built on
knowing
I can effectively work the ball in any circumstance.
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