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Confidence Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in…
- They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than…
- To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful…
- To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think…
- The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing…
- We can be satisfied with moderate confidence in ourselves and with a moderately good opinion of ourselves, but the faith we have in a holy…
- The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's hatred for a fellow American.is…
- There is a close connection between lack of confidence and the passionate state of mind.
- Passionate intensity may serve as a substitute for confidence.
- Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. Where there is the necessary…
- Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and of the poor…
More Confidence Quotes
- I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself. — Pietro Aretino
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges,… — Richard G. Scott
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of… — Jane Austen
- We should remember it wasn't so long ago that confidence in New York was in short supply. — Michael Bloomberg
- The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense. — Arnold Bennett
- It is difficult, it is pleasant. It is true, it is real. You will tell yourself this and many other things based… — Unkown