"Humor comes from self-confidence."
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"The foundation of the world lies in the nation. The foundation of the nation lies in the family. The foundation of the family lies in the individual."
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"Your self-confidence increases when you know you are living your life according to your highest values."
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"Being on stage is about self esteem and self confidence."
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"The greatest step toward accomplishment is self-confidence ."
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"I suppose that there are endeavors in which self-confidence is even more important than it is in writing -- tightrope walking comes immediately to mind -- but it's difficult for me to think of anybody producing much writing if his confidence is completely shot."
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"I lack self-confidence. I don't know whether I shall ever get it. Perhaps it is better to be unsure of your self, as I am. But it is very tiring."
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"The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity."
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"The greatest step toward success is self confidence. The greatest builder of self confidence is self esteem, and self esteem comes from doing the daily things you know you should do. Your self esteem will start to soar when you make some critical decisions - decisions to walk a new road, to start a new direction, to start a new discipline."
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"Developing concern for others, thinking of them as part of us, brings self-confidence , reduces our sense of suspicion and mistrust, and enables us to develop a calm mind."
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"If you can do it, it ain't braggin'... it's a matter of self-confidence. I got where I did because I wasn't no shrinking violet."
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"Clarity is essential. Knowing exactly what you want builds your self-confidence immeasurably."
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"We all have tremendous potential, and we all are blessed with gifts. Yet, the one thing that holds all of us back is some degree of self-doubt. It is not so much the lack of technical information that holds us back, but more the lack of self-confidence."
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"In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment - independent will - that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day."
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"If you become more concerned for the welfare of others, you will experience a sense of calm, inner-strength, and self confidence."
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"What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it's not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, 'Hey, I can't really figure those things out.'"
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"The best way to help Burma is to empower the people of Burma, to help us have enough self-confidence to obtain what we want for ourselves."
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"How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?"
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"Self-confidence results, first, from exact knowledge; second, the ability to impart that knowledge."
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"The very purpose of our life is happiness, which is sustained by hope. We have no guarantee about the future, but we exist in the hope of something better. Hope means keeping going, thinking, ‘I can do this.’ It brings inner strength, self-confidence , the ability to do what you do honestly, truthfully and transparently."
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