Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
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Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
But failure has to be an option in art and in exploration - because it's a leap of faith. And no important endeavor that required innovation was done without risk. You have to be willing to take those risks.
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master
At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.
Every day, women and girls are finding incredible confidence and taking risks. When they change one mind, pretty soon, they have changed one tradition. That changed tradition has changed a village. That one village has changed a country. That new reality means new opportunities for themselves and their daughters.
Never participate in the secrets of those above you; you think you share the fruit, and you share the stones - the confidence of a prince is not a grant, but a tax
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
A great man is always willing to be little.
With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end.
In government institutions and in teaching, you need to inspire confidence. To achieve credibility, you have to very clearly explain what you are doing and why. The same principles apply to businesses.
Zoom does not focus on revenue goals, but rather we have confidence that focusing on the happiness of existing customers and our employees will organically increase growth.
Confidence is highly overrated when it comes to creating literature. A writer who is overly confident will not engage in the struggle to get it exactly right on the page - but rather, will assume that she's getting it right without the struggle.
If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
The people have given me their support; they have given me their trust and confidence. My colleagues have suffered a lot in order to give me support. I do not look upon my life as a sacrifice at all.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
I think a lot of people mistake my confidence on stage for cockiness in real life, and that's actually farthest from the truth. When I'm on stage, I'm that confident and that cocky because I have a microphone in my hand, and there's a few thousand people staring at me. And I know they're there to laugh.
Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.
Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.
A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
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