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“I have challenged fate to chess and am now attempting to keep all my confidence from puddling in my boots. What if I’m the only one betting on myself because everyone but me can see I am not suited to play at all?”

Book:The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

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“It is common knowledge among psychologists that most of us underrate ourselves, short-change ourselves, sell ourselves short. Actually, there is no such thing as a superiority complex. People who seem to have one are actually suffering from feelings of inferiority; their "superior" self is a fiction, a coverup, to hide from themselves and others their deep-down feelings of inferiority and insecurity.”

Confidence Ego Arrogance Insecurity

Book:The New Psycho-Cybernetics: The Original Science of Self-Improvement and Success That Has Changed the Lives of 30 Million People

Source: The New Psycho-Cybernetics: The Original Science of Self-Improvement and Success That Has Changed the Lives of 30 Million People

“Who decides whether you shall be happy or unhappy? The answer—you do!”

Happiness Happy

Book:The Power of Positive Thinking

Source: The Power of Positive Thinking

“Surely it is the one who fears he is wrong who avoids criticism. The one who is sure he is right invites it. It only illuminates the strength of beliefs and makes them more available to others.”

Confidence Criticism Insecurity

Book:Epistemology: The Justification of Belief

Source: Epistemology: The Justification of Belief

“Yet none of these things gave him confidence. All they gave him was egotism, which is less the conviction of one's worth than the desire for that conviction.”

Inspirational Confidence Conviction Egotism

Book:The Moonflower Vine

Source: The Moonflower Vine

“I walked out. I left. Andy Jankowski had taught me how.”

Confidence Leaving Black Mirror

Book:Black Mirror

Source: Black Mirror

“I am less blindly confident than I once was, for I have been learning a truer estimate of myself, my failings and limitations, in these dark days. I have learnt to hope that if there be a Judgment Day of some kind, God will not see us with our own eyes, nor judge us as we judge ourselves.”

Confidence Judgment Day

Book:Testament of Youth

Source: Testament of Youth

“I seem to have to lost confidence in just about everything else. I've come to believe that only a very, very few matters in the world can ever be trusted to make sense.”

Confidence Making Sense Of The World

Book:Cold Spring Harbor

Source: Cold Spring Harbor

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