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Self-confidence is trusting your own ability

• • Self-confidence: A feeling of trust in one’s abilities, qualities, and judgement. Oxford Dictionary
  • Self-confidence: Behaving calmly because you have no doubts about your ability or knowledge. Cambridge Dictionary
  • Trust,  Self-belief,  Preparation,  Mastery

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True self-confidence is believing you can

• Confidence is a resolute state of mind by which you believe nothing is impossible. John Eliot
• Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks on great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself. Cicero
• Self-confidence is self-determinism. One’s belief in one’s ability to determine his own course. As long as one has that, he’s got the universe in his pocket. Ron Hubbard
• Genuine confidence is a way of thinking about yourself and your abilities. Confidence is your perception of your own potential; it’s a kind of long-term thinking that powers you through the obstacles and tough times, helping you solve problems and putting you in the way of success. John Eliot, Ph.D.

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Self-confidence increases the chance of success

• Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself. Robert Collier
• Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. Norman Vincent Peal
• Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. Helen Keller
• Self-Confidence is the number one asset that separates great athletes from the rest of the pack. Patrick Cohn
• Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. Samuel Johnson
• What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate. Henry David Thoreau
• 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 Garvey
• Research has shown that self-assurance, not self-awareness, is the strongest predictor of a person’s ability to set high goals, to persist in the face of obstacles, to bounce back when reversals occur, and, ultimately, to achieve the goals they set. Marcus Buckingham
• The secret of making dreams come true can be summarized in four C’s. They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy; and the greatest of these is Confidence. Walt Disney
• There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
• Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit. E. Cummings
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As is our confidence, so is our capacity

• As is our confidence, so is our capacity. Richard Bach
• You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are. Yogi Bhajan
• Self-confidence is the power that makes you dare, try and do. Remez Sasson
• With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world. The Dalai Lama
• The sky is not my limit…I am. F. Hodge
• You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. Michael Jordan
• Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it. Stan Smith
• Confidence can get you where you want to go, and getting there is a daily process. It’s so much easier when you feel good about yourself, your abilities and talents. Donald Trump
• Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. Bruce Barton
• You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. Rosalynn Carter
• Potential,  Possibility

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Lack of confidence creates limitation

• If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers. Christian Bovee
• Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they’re yours. Richard Bach
• If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win. Carl Lewis
• Many people succeed when others do not believe in them. But rarely does a person succeed when he does not believe in himself. Herb True
• Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence. Vince Lombardi
• If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
• It’s not who you are that holds you back; it’s who you think you’re not.
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Lack of self-confidence creates the incapacity of self-doubt

• Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else. Mignon McLaughlin
• Self-doubt is so insidious that it not only renders us stuck in our lives, but it also actually weakens our ability to dream about what living unleashed would look like. Danielle LaPorte
• A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failures certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. Alexandre Dumas
• When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt. Honore de Balzac
• Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. William Shakespeare
• If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground. Henrik Ibsen
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1.  Practice and prepare

• Confidence is a trait that has to be earned honestly and refreshed constantly; you have to work as hard to protect your skills as you did to develop them. This means vigilant practice and excellent practice habits. You’ve heard the phrase “Practice makes perfect”? Not true. Perfect practice makes perfect. The one thing that creative souls around the world have in common is that they all have to practice to maintain their skills. Art is a vast democracy of habit. Twyla Tharp
• Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.  Richard Kline
• One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. Arthur Ashe
• To build confidence, build competence. Nothing creates and undergirds a confident disposition like knowing you’re prepared for the challenge. Tom Morris
• Mental techniques can enhance, but can never replace, the hard work of preparation. Great confidence is rooted in great preparation. Only those who prepare for greatness can reasonably expect it. Tom Morris
• If you are prepared, then you are able to feel confident. Robert Ringer
• Practice,  Preparation

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2.  Take action

• Got a good idea? Then do something about it. Use action to cure fear and gain confidence. Here’s something to remember: Actions feed and strengthen confidence; inaction in all forms feeds fear. To fight fear, act. To increase fear—wait, put off, postpone. David Schwartz
• Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. Dale Carnegie
• Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all. Norman Vincent Peale
• Action

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3.  Face your fears

• 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. Eleanor Roosevelt
• Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.
• The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.  William Jennings Bryan
• The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear. William Jennings Bryan
• Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong. Peter T. Mcintyre
• Fear,  Courage

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4. Challenge yourself

• Above all, challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish. Cecile M. Springer
• When you’ve got something to prove, there’s nothing greater than a challenge. Terry Bradshaw
• Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment. Thomas Carlyle
• Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory. George S. Patton
• It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. Edmund Hillary
• Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty. William Bennet
• Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there’s an ocean, we cross it; if there’s a disease, we cure it; if there’s a wrong, we right it; if there’s a record, we break it; and finally, if there’s a mountain, we climb it. James Ramesy Ullman

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5.  Believe in yourself

• Here is the first step toward success. It’s a basic step. It can’t be avoided. Step One: Believe in yourself, believe you can succeed. David Schwartz
• 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
• People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. Norman Vincent Peale
• You have to believe in yourself. Sun Tzu
• Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. Malcolm S. Forbes
• Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. Benjamin Spock
• Believe you can and you’ll be right.
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6.  Be your greatest supporter and proponent

• If I am not for myself, who will be? Pirke Avoth
• Life marks us all down, so it’s just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves. Mignon McLaughlin
• Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level. Max L. Forman
• Always act like you’re wearing an invisible crown.
• Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. Veronica A. Shoffstall
• Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself – your strengths and your limitations – in contrast to depending on affirmation from others. Judith M. Bardwick
• If you are going to doubt something, doubt your limits. Don Ward
• It’s me who is my enemy Me who beats me up Me who makes the monsters Me who strips my confidence. Paula Cole

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7.  Celebrate all your wins

• Because self-confidence is built on memories of past successes, recalling these experiences will help you to feel self- confident towards achieving new goals. Vic Johnson
• Celebrate every little success. Leo Babauta
• Learn to pat yourself on the back for your past and present victories, no matter how small. Search for things to acknowledge. Write down every strong point you can come up with in your life, past and present. John Kehoe
• Self-esteem contemplates what needs to be done and says, ‘I can.’ Pride contemplates what has been accomplished and says, ‘I did.’ Nathaniel Branden
• Catch yourself doing things right.
• It is important that you recognize your progress and take pride in your accomplishments. Share your achievements with others. Brag a little. The recognition and support of those around you is nurturing. Rosemarie Rossetti
• Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don’t collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don’t really mean anything. Norman Lear
• To establish true self esteem, we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. Denis Waitley

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8.  Act confident

• To think confidently, act confidently… Act the way you want to feel. David J. Schwartz
• Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have. Brian Tracy
• Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation. Thomas Huxley
• Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face. Helen Keller
• When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you’re going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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9.  Live with integrity and keep your promises

• Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside. Brian Tracy
• If you don’t respect yourself, you cannot maintain your confidence, regardless of how well you follow all the other principles. Nothing will inform you as a person more than your actions, specifically your promise-keeping ratio during your life. It defines you as either a truth teller or a liar. Tim Sanders
• Integrity,  Commitment

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Blessed are those who create confidence

• Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot. Truman Capote
• The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be prepared for some doubt in your life

• The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. Robert Hughes
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• Confidence is not arrogance – rather, it is based on a constant awareness of how short life is and how little we will ultimately lose from risking everything. Alain de Botton
• Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you. Nicholai Velimirovic
• The search for self-worth begins by finding what is indestructible inside, then letting it be. Prudence Kohl
• Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them. Robert Brault
• Those with a high level of confidence may have as many or more weaknesses than those with low self- esteem. The difference is this; instead of dwelling on their handicaps, they compensate for them by dwelling on their strengths. Alan Loy McGinnis
• Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions. Earl Gray Stevens
• Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.  Charles Darwin

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• To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. Mark Twain
• Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you. Zig Ziglar
• Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.  Woody Allen
• Opportunity is always knocking. The problem is that most people have the self-doubt station in their heads turned up way too loud to hear it. Brian Vaszily
• Confidence is ignorance. If you’re feeling cocky, it’s because there’s something you don’t know. Eoin Colfer
• Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man – there’s your diamond in the rough. Larry David
• All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence and then success is sure.  Mark Twain
• Confidence is that quiet assured feeling you have before you fall flat on your face.   L. Binder
• Confidence is a nice suit. Arrogance is the same suit with suspenders, Italian loafers, and gold cuff links. Tim Schneider
• I have nothing but confidence in you and very little of that.  Groucho Marx
• I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. Doug McLeod
• Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. Joseph Wood Krutch
• Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.  Manley’s Maxim
• Politician: One who shakes your hand before elections and your confidence after.
• The trouble with ignorance is that it picks up confidence as it goes along.

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