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Confidence Quotes - Page 2

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.

Richard P. Feynman (2010). “"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character: Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.172, W. W. Norton & Company

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

George Washington (1852). “The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States”, p.94

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.206, Harvard University Press

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.1082, e-artnow

You young people yourselves are capable of performing anything. Our inventors can invent in a high level. Our innovators can innovate in a high level, only if they keep self confidence and believe that we can.

Ruhollah Khomeini's address to an audience of Iranian industry workers and inventors (October 1983), as quoted in "Imam's Sahife", Volume 18 (pp. 189-190), December 11, 1983.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.174, University of Chicago Press

Never dull your shine for somebody else.

FaceBook post by Tyra Banks from Aug 30, 2011

Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.

Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.24, Metropolitan Museum of Art

I am very confident. I look confident. I act confident. I speak in a confident way.

Milton H. Erickson, Jeffrey K. Zeig (1980). “Teaching Seminar with Milton H. Erickson, M.D.”, p.61, Psychology Press