The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.
Confident quotes - page 14
“The only reason a warrior is alive is to fight, and the only reason a warrior fights is to win.”
Miyamoto Musashi
“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.”
A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager.
Edmund Clarence Stedman
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“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by sheep: I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.”
Alexander The Great
Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
Diane Arbus
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Coco Chanel
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
I didn't want to change my personality onstage, but I still had to build some kind of ego to be able to go up there. If not, there's no point.
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Jean Paul
The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.
Daniel Kahneman
“Find the confidence in whatever way you can to just keep moving onto the next page. The only way you will finish projects and get better is to keep moving forward.”
Charles Forsman
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
When you can completely love your ego unconditionally and accept it as part of how you express in this life, you'll no longer have a problem with it. It won't impede your growth - on the contrary, it will be an asset.
Anita Moorjani
Action painting has to do with self-creation or self-definition or self-transcendence; but this dissociates it from self-expression, which assumes the acceptance of the ego as it is, with its wound and its magic.
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
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The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.
