"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."
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"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages."
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"Believe in yourself and have confidence that you can compete against all odds. Have a vision of what you'd like to accomplish and be able to articulate that vision."
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"Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude."
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"Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think. So start each day by thinking of all the things you have to be thankful for. Your future will depend very largely on the thoughts you think today. So think thoughts of hope and confidence and love and success."
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"Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision."
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"A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up."
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"You can be anything you want to be, if only you believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
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"Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives."
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"we are the ones we have been waiting for"
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"Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem."
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"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
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"If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it."
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"Everyone's a star and deserves the right to twinkle."
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"It’s in our interest to take care of others. Self-centrednes s is opposed to basic human nature. In our own interest as human beings we need to pay attention to our inner values. Sometimes people think compassion is only of help to others, while we get no benefit. This is a mistake. When you concern yourself with others, you naturally develop a sense of self-confidence . To help others takes courage and inner strength."
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"Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot."
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"It took a while to grow the confidence to say, 'This is who I am, take it or leave it.'"
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"Believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic."
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"Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge."
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"My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso."
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