Self Assuredness Quotes

• He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.

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  Honore de Balzac

  Winning   Men   Lasts  

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• Problems form an important part of our lives. They are placed in our path for us to overcome them, not to be overcome by them. We must master them, not let them master us. Every time we overcome a challenge, we grow in experience, in self assuredness, and in faith.

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  Royden G. Derrick

  Life   Faith   Self  

  440

• I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints

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  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Being Yourself   Heart   Moon  

  RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1911). “THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR SELF-RELIANCE COMPENSATION”

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• I don't think my brand of self-confidence and self-assuredness can come from an outside source. It's got to come from me.

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  Gabourey Sidibe

  Self Confidence   Thinking   Source  

  1006

• It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

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  Epicurus

  Lying   Perspective   Fearless  

  1315

• But now that she had achieved knighthood, and thought and acted as she wanted and decided, for one has to act in this way in order to save this world, she neither noticed nor cared that all the people around her thought she was insane.

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  Kathy Acker

  Order   People   Insane  

  Kathy Acker, Dennis Cooper (2002). “Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker”, p.206, Grove Press

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• Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.

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  Gerard Way

  Being Yourself   Alive   Just Being You  

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