Knock the ‘t’ off the can’t.
Samuel Johnson

Success comes in cans, not cant’s.
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I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
Lauren Bacall

Whatever you say, say it with conviction
Mark Twain

Put your future in good hands * your own.
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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
Edmund Hillary

It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.
W.C. Fields

Always act like you’re wearing an invisible crown.
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The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.
Sven Goran Eriksson

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
Zig Ziglar

To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.
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The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.
Sonya Friedman

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
Gene Fowler-1961

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they’re yours.
Richard Bach

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
Michel de Montaigne

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
Pietro Aretino

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Oscar Wilde

Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people’s orchards.
Mignon McLaughlin-1960

Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you are right.
Henry Ford

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
African Proverb

The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.
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Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.
William Hazlitt

Your problem is you’re… too busy holding onto your unworthiness.
Ram Dass

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
Mignon McLaughlin-1960

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
Michel de Montaigne

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

The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.
Hasidic

Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
Les Brown

Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.
Richard Kline

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.
Arnold Palmer-1929

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Samuel Johnson-1709*

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
Edgar Allan Poe

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
Henrik Ibsen

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
Truman Capote-1958

It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.
Confidence Quotes

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
Mark Twain-1835

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson-1803

Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
Wendy Wasserstein

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-1898

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
Peter T. Mcintyre

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn’t fall down.
Allen H. Neuharth

Don’t let people drive you crazy when you know it’s in walking distance.
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It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.
Sally Field

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
Jesse Jackson

Just remember, when you should grab something, grab it; when you should let go, let go.
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I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
Anna Freud-1895

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don’t know to be arrogant about it.
Ruben Studdard

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.
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Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying anyway.
Mary Kay Ash

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
Erik H. Erikson

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
Rosalynn Carter

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale

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

When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that they take better care of it there.
Cecil Selig

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
Christian Bovee

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.
Mignon McLaughlin-1960

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas Alva Edison

Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
Max L. Forman

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare-1604

To value his own good opinion, a child has to feel that he is a worthwhile person. He has to have confidence in himself as an individual.
Sidonie Gruenberg

Spirit can walk, spirit can swim, spirit can climb, spirit can crawl. There is no terrain you cannot overcome.
Irisa Hail

The things we hate about ourselves aren’t more real than things we like about ourselves.
Ellen Goodman

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
Andrew Carnegie

Life marks us all down, so it’s just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.
Mignon McLaughlin-1960

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.
Charles Dickens

Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
Veronica A. Shoffstall-1971

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
Epicurus

Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.
Jean Sibelius

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

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.
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We probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
Olin Miller

All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do…. Build, therefore, your own world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh

We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.
Roderick Thorp

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
David Brinkley

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Bruce Barton

If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
Sydney Smith

Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.
Virginia Woolf*