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  • Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According to prevailing attitudes, these people-the pride and joy of their parents-should have had a strong and stable sense of self-assurance. But the case is exactly the opposite... Whenever they suddenly get the feeling they have failed to live up to some ideal image or have not measured up to some standard, then they are plagued by anxiety or deep feelings of guilt and shame. What are the reasons for such disturbances in these competent, accomplished people?

    Strong   Attitude   Pride  
  • The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured.

    Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.33, Beacon Press
  • Be courteous to all, but personal with number of, and allow those couple be perfectly attempted ahead of you provide them with your self-assurance.

    Couple   Self   Numbers  
  • I should have wished to possess the intellectual equilibrium that characterizes you and permits you to achieve without fail the desired end... Chance has not favoured me with an equal self-assurance, it is the only regret I have about things of this earth.

  • The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance of their enemies, but the complacency of their friends, are precious catalysts for change.

    Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.33, Beacon Press
  • Publishing is the only industry I can think of where most of the employees spend most of their time stating with great self-assurance that they don't know how to do their jobs. "I don't know how to sell this," they explain, frowning, as though it's your fault. "I don't know how to package this. I don't know what the market is for this book. I don't know how we're going to draw attention to this." In most occupations, people try to hide their incompetence; only in publishing is it flaunted as though it were the chief qualification for the job.

    Jobs   Book   Thinking  
  • How can love survive in such a graceless age? The trust and self assurance that lead to happiness, they're the very things we kill.

    Reality   Self   Age  
    Song: The Heart Of The Matter, Album: The End of the Innocence
  • We can enjoy a self-assurance that doesn't depend on the state of things outside ourselves, be it downturns or booms or whatever.

    Self   States   Enjoy  
    Source: www.egonzehnder.com
  • The most important characteristic that has allowed me to succeed is confidence. I have always been comfortable in my own skin, and even when I was just starting out in my career, had the strength and self-assurance to ask tough questions and push for answers.

  • Yves Saint Laurent liked women to put their hands in their pockets, or to hold cigarettes, and act a bit like boys. It was to give an impression of composure, some self-assurance, and to counter the feminine appearance.

    Boys   Self   Hands  
  • Clothes have always had a wonderful influence on my physical well-being as well as my self-assurance. All I have to do to make me feel like a new and younger man is to order three new suits of clothes. My fur-lined overcoat gave me such a glow of health that very shortly after acquiring it I was able to enjoy the hazards of a Gargantuan studio cocktail party without a single twinge of pain.

    Pain   Party   Men  
    Adolphe Menjou (1950). “It took nine tailors”
  • I don't feel myself that I Know it all, but I have enough conceit to be successful. That observation was made by a businessman in his 30s who was making notable headway, although his path bristled with difficulties. Business places no premiums on shrinking violets. Employers prefer men who have self-assurance, forcefulness, go-aheadness, men who know their jobs and know that they know it.

    Jobs   Pride   Successful  
  • The measure of self-assurance is how deeply and sincerely interested you are in others; the measure of insecurity is how much you try to impress them with you.

    Mark Goulston (2015). “Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone”, p.63, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
  • A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.

    Children   Flower   Hair  
    Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.17, Anchor
  • Space is still filled with the noise of destruction and annihilation, the shouts of self-assurance and arrogance, the weeping of despair and helplessness. But round about the horizon the eternal realities stand silent in their age-old longing. There shines on them already the first mild light of the radiant fulfillment to come. From afar sound the first notes as of pipes and voices, not yet discernable as a song or melody. It is all far off still, and only just announced and foretold. But it is happening, today.

    Song   Reality   Self  
  • It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.

  • Whatever that thing is that white people like in blacks, I don't have it. Maybe it's my arrogance or my self-assurance or the way I carry myself, but whatever it is, I don't have it.

    White   Self   People  
  • I think we need to grow in our self-assurance that is not scared of being challenged, that the truth we uphold can stand up to the closest possible scrutiny.

    Thinking   Self   Needs  
    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
  • Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

    Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 13, 1595.
  • Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

    Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.13, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
  • Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it's not arrogant.

    Writing   Self   Arrogant  
    Source: www.newstatesman.com
  • Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

    1977 Illusions.
  • Self-assurance doesn't come from looking perfect and having a great title, but from accepting yourself with all you mistakes and eccentricities.

  • For a large corporation to be effective, it must be simple. For an organization to be simple, its people must have self-confidence and intellectual self-assurance. Insecure managers create complexity, real leaders do not clutter.

  • The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.

    Archibald MacLeish (1978). “Riders on the Earth: essays and recollections”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
  • Confidence and empowerment are cousins in my opinion. Empowerment comes from within and typically it's stemmed and fostered by self-assurance. To feel empowered is to feel free and that's when people do their best work. You can't fake confidence or empowerment.

    Cousin   Self   People  
    "What's the ROI on Your Day? Amy Jo Martin on Passion and Innovation". Interview with Leslie Bradshaw, www.forbes.com. January 26, 2012.
  • It seems to me that self confidence and the ability to stand one's ground are essential if we want to succeed in life. I am not talking of stupid self-assurance but of an awareness of our inner potential, a certainty that we can always correct our behavior, improve ourselves, enrich ourselves, and that things are never hopeless

  • I am driven to observe of the ultra-Darwinists the following features as symptomatic. First, to my eyes, is their almost unbelievable self-assurance, their breezy self-confidence.

    Simon Conway Morris (2003). “Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe”, p.314, Cambridge University Press
  • An individual's arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance.

    Otto Weininger (2005). “Sex and Character: An Investigation of Fundamental Principles”, p.147, Indiana University Press
  • Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.

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