#confidence

I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

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Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart. ↗

— William Pitt

#confidence #growth #heart #plant #slow

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#faith #fools #friends #great #great faith

I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience. ↗

— Alain Prost

#confidence #experience #i #important #interested

I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

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The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#confidence #faith #holocaust #our #possibility

To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

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Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#except #lost #our #perhaps #power

I don't doubt for a second that Neil Armstrong's spirit is still with us: that unique blend of optimism, humility and the utter confidence that when the world needs someone to do the really big stuff, you need an American. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#armstrong #big #big stuff #blend #confidence

The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to "tear down this wall," a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire. ↗

— Mitt Romney

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