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Confidence

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground. – Henrik Ibsen

Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

The horizon, to remind you of your courage, sends its gentle waves of confidence to kiss your feet. – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. – William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, 1604

I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair. – Anaïs Nin

Never let the hand you hold, hold you down. – Author Unknown

Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves. – William Hazlitt

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. – Michel de Montaigne

If you are going to doubt something, doubt your limits. – Don Ward

Doubting yourself is like pointing a gun at your motivation. – Joey Gloor, Fat Chance [S1, E1, 2016]

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled. – Andrew Carnegie

If I am not for myself, who will be? – Pirke Avoth

We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Self-love seems so often unrequited. – Anthony Powell

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate. – Henry David Thoreau

There are offences given and offences not given but taken. – Izaak Walton

Do not doubt the goodness in you. It is inappropriate. – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

Men harm others by their deeds, themselves by their thoughts. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows. – John Powell

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. – Epicurus