Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
An individual's arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance. — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
For a large corporation to be effective, it must be simple. For an organization to be simple, its people must have self-confidence… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
“You yearn to stay in this in-between place, where the beauty of the times you have freshly bade farewell to is still… — Agnes Chew Copy Share Image
It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission. — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
“Moments later, I was climbing nervously into the back of the car. The driver wore the archetypal expression of an antagonist. No… — Agnes Chew Copy Share Image
A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Publishing is the only industry I can think of where most of the employees spend most of their time stating with great… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Zaphod marched quickly down the passageway, nervous as hell, but trying to hide it by striding purposefully.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I am driven to observe of the ultra-Darwinists the following features as symptomatic. First, to my eyes, is their almost unbelievable self-assurance,… — Simon Conway Morris Copy Share Image
For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It seems to me that self confidence and the ability to stand one's ground are essential if we want to succeed in… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Space is still filled with the noise of destruction and annihilation, the shouts of self-assurance and arrogance, the weeping of despair and… — Alfred Delp Copy Share Image
I think we need to grow in our self-assurance that is not scared of being challenged, that the truth we uphold can… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“It's okay to look different, Lilith. Beauty is only a matter of opinion. If you believe you are beautiful, then that's all… — Penelope Ward Copy Share Image
The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
The most important characteristic that has allowed me to succeed is confidence. I have always been comfortable in my own skin, and… — Heather Bresch Copy Share Image
Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it's not arrogant. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Self-assurance doesn't come from looking perfect and having a great title, but from accepting yourself with all you mistakes and eccentricities. — Cecelie Berry Copy Share Image
The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Even in her casual white shirt and cotton pants, she was clearly an independent woman in charge of her destiny. She was… — Jan Moran Copy Share Image
“Your self-assurance scares me.’ 'That’s only because you don’t have any.” — Marianne Curley Copy Share Image
“One of my rules is never to look sideways at what other people are doing but instead, do what I feel is… — Annie Bryant Copy Share Image
