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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.”
Dale Carnegie
“Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.”
Douglas Bader
“Insist on yourself; never imitate.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”
“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.”
Anna Freud
“To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'”
Ayn Rand
“Don’t back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.”
Oprah Winfrey
“I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.”
Pietro Aretino
“A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.”
Robert A. Heinlein