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Confidence is trust in ourselves: the knowledge, skills, and the value we are able to bring to a situation. True confidence is not bravado. It is lies in genuine knowledge of who we are and is often built on a foundation of hard work. Confidence is infectious, which is why it is a key quality of leadership.


Confidence gives us the courage to act, but sometimes it is bold action, even in the face of fear, that creates confidence.

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Comparison is the thief of Joy.

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Always Remember to take your Vitamins: Take your Vitamin A for ACTION, Vitamin B for Belief, Vitamin C for Confidence ,Vitamin D for Discipline, Vitamin E for Enthusiasm!!”

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http://www.goodreads.com
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“Stop searching the world for treasure, the real treasure is in yourself.”

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www.facebook.com/dreamtoreal
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Nothing is difficult when one can overcome with it !!!

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Never doubt of your talents, all you wait for is just a right opportunity. Then, you can fly high up to where you belong.......

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Life should be as colourful as the rainbow. Please remember, you are your own painter always.......

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Education may not make a change of your life. It makes you ponder over at least.

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Give the people --- confidence. Give the people --- delight. Give the people --- hope. Give the people --- the best.

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"Peace can not be fought for. The minute we fight for our own peace, or the peace of others, we enter into battle and peace will ever elude us. The key to peace is to allow ourselves to know, and be known, by our creator, our spouse, our friends;and there in realize we are accepted for who we are, not what we are."

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I'd rather have high self-esteem and be called a "Diva" than have low-self esteem and become a "Doormat".

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I am the author of this quote.
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Divine justice and joy empowers unity and peace.

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Integrated Gospel Poetry
Lawrence E. Tucker
http://www.igp-let.blogspot.com
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"An integral being knows without knowing, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing".

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I know the art how to play in the mud. I will wade across safe fishing out the meat.

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"Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.

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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

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"If you voluntarily quit in the face of adversity, you'll wonder about it for the rest of your life."

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Newspaper: Indianapolis Star
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011111190325
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

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goodreads.com
Dr. Seuss
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes
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Cut your own path and make your life happen

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Self
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They taught me that I am not above or beneath anybody- and that I stand to gain as much, or more, from folks who live in society’s shadows as from those on top of the world.

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The artists are the most fragile beings, yet empowered with an immeasurable stubbornness and strength for that for which they are destined to. They are so truthfully dedicated to their task that nor critics nor praise could interfere or make any difference in the unfolding of their destiny.

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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

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google.ca
Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."

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Every moment is a chance to fulfill our purpose.

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This is something I had to put down in words while I was thinking about this "ultimate purpose" there could be for my life. My conclusion was this quote.
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Success is not the opposite of failure. Failure is the vital ingredient in the recipe for success.

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"Life is too short to have negative friends."

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"Nothing can sabotage winning, except for fear of losing. Success usually lies just beyond failure."

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"I've learnt in life that Victory is closest in our darkest hour. That if we stretch that little further, you will break through into the light of day."

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"You can either advance boldly in the direction of your dreams, or retreat fearfully into the safety of the habitual"

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Successful people are prepared to fail more, and they are more persistent than others.

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You may define me at my funeral; I refuse to be placed in a box before I die!

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From the manuscript Impatiently Seeking Patience...
http://www.latonyatarell.com
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I believe a failure is that man that remains on the ground when he falls because he fears if he raises he might fall again, or that man that accept what people think of or call him, better still he is that man that thinks "that task is too big for me", " I can't Possibly do that", "It is not yet my time/turn". Because all these elude a man of the prize that awaits the activist.

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thought/common sense
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You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.

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I saw this in a mailing from the Center for Nonviolent Communication today
http://I don't know
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Awe, the virtue of love..no law against it neither can there be because of the nature thereof.

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Integrated Gospel Poetry http://www.igp-let.blogspot.com
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Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.

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Alan Cohen
"They're Singing Your Song"
http://www.holistichealthtools.com/alan_cohen.html
Viewed on July 23, 2011
Contribution #4368


"If the shoe fits, wear it," they say. No, sir...Not I. "If the shoe fits," well then doggone it--I must be Cinderella!

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From the author's personal musings.
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Women are like apples on trees, the best ones are on the top of the tree. The men don't want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and don't want to get hurt. Instead, they just get the rotten apples from the ground that aren't so good but easy. So, the apples at the top think something is wrong with them, when in reality they are amazing. They just have to wait for the right man to come along, the one who's brave enough to climb all the way to the top becuase they value quality.

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I am selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best

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To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. [...] And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

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You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
by Howard Zinn
Page Closing
Published by Beacon Press , November 30, 1995
http://www.amazon.com/You-Cant-Neutral-Moving-Train/dp/0807070599
Contribution #3945


Here I stand; I can do no other.

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Wikipedia
Traditional attribution to Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms in 1521 now doubted
"Diet of Worms"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet_of_Worms
Viewed on March 9, 2010
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“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” Winston Churchill quote

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Determination declares whatever is required or demanded will be satisfied to the effect the desired result become a possessed property achieved through the divine force thereof.

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Integrated Gospel Poetry
Lawrence E Tucker
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Praise is the attitude of the highest gratitude.

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Integrated Gospel Perceptions
Lawrence E Tucker
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. Malcolm X

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Malcolm X
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"Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then we shall find the way." — Abraham Lincoln

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Failure is an event, never a person.

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Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

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I believe in clear-cut positions. I think that the most arrogant position is this apparent, multidisciplinary modesty of "what I am saying now is not unconditional, it is just a hypothesis," and so on. It really is a most arrogant position. I think that the only way to be honest and expose yourself to criticism is to state clearly and dogmatically where you are. You must take the risk and have a position.

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Conversations with Žižek
by Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly
Page p. 45
Published by Polity Press , Cambridge , 2004
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Slavoj_Žižek
Contribution #3052


We can either watch life from the sidelines, or actively participate...Either we let self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy prevent us from realizing our potential, or embrace the fact that when we turn our attention away from ourselves, our potential is limitless.

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Christopher Reeve
"O's Quote of the Day"
http://www.oprah.com/magazine/omagazine
Viewed on February 3, 2009
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It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, "Don't play like me, play like you."

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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

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Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

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Jone Johnson Lewis
"Integrity/Individuality Quotes"
http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_integrityindividuality.html
Viewed on October 25, 2008
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The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.

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Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

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Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

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They can because they think they can.

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It is not the "courage to be" that we must develop as much as the "courage to become." We are responsible for our destiny. The meaning of life is not located in some hidden crevice in the womb of nature but is created by free persons, who are aware that they are responsible for their own futures and have the courage to take this project into their own hands.

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Paul Kurtz
"Humanist of Utah"
http://www.humanistsofutah.org/quotes.html
Viewed on August 14, 2008
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He is able who thinks he is able.

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Heart of a Buddha
by Amita Society
Published by Amitabha Publications , Temple City, CA , 2003
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Not to be cheered by praise,
Not to be grieved by blame,
But to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers--
Are the characteristics of an excellent man.

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Be confident, cheerful and contented.  The mind can produce any degree of contentment and peace.  To generate these, no other agency or help is required.

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Swami Boomananda Tirtha
http://wiki.seedsofcompassion.org
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If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

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Marcus T. Cicero
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/if_you_have_no_confidence_in_self-you_are_twice/148575.html
Viewed on April 17, 2008
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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

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Marcus T. Cicero
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/confidence_is_that_feeling_by_which_the_mind/148570.html
Viewed on April 17, 2008
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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/the_man_of_genius_inspires_us_with_a_boundless/14518.html
Viewed on April 17, 2008
Contribution #897


True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man.

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Benjamin Burt
http://thinkexist.com/quotes/benjamin_burt/
Viewed on April 17, 2008
Contribution #896


He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.

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Red Auerbach
http://www.answers.com/Confidence?cat=entertainment
Viewed on April 17, 2008
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One of the biggest obstacles to people improving their self-esteem is their constant need for approval by others. The problem with this is that until you believe in yourself, it will never matter what someone else says because the most important person doesn't believe it, You.

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Catherine Pratt
http://www.life-with-confidence.com/inner-voice-limiting-beliefs.html
Viewed on March 1, 2008
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Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

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And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. 

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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are!

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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

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