Quotes with over-confidence

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  • Truman Capote Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
    Breakfast at Tiffany's
    Truman Capote
    American writer (1924 - 1984)
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  • Carl Sandburg Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Malcolm X Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle. We must take hold of it and forge the future with the past.
    By any means necessary (1992)
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Byron Nelson Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant; it was like they were smiling all over.
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  • Buffalo Bill As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Bill Nye As a kid at the World's Fair in 1965, I missed seeing the big global population clock roll over from 2,999,999,999 to 3 billion - I was really disappointed.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Brad Feld As a teenager, my dad taught me about the idea of unintended consequences, and I've had the experience, and how to deal with it, pounded into my soul over the years.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Carl Van Vechten As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
    Carl Van Vechten
    American writer and photographer (1880 - 1964)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Bob Knight As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
    Bob Knight
    American basketball coach (1940 - )
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  • Bruce Lee As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Artemisia Gentileschi As long as I live I will have control over my being.
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  • C. S. Lewis As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.
    The Weight of Glory (1949)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Barry Gibb As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.
    Barry Gibb
    British-American musician and singer-songwriter (1946 - )
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  • Albert J. Nock As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Angela Davis As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Bill Flores As you get larger, it is harder to have focused discussions. Because one of the things I've learned about Congress over the past four years that I've been in is there's no shortage of opinions about how things should be done on any particular subject.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Bill Rancic Ask any successful person to look back over the events of his or her life, and chances are there'll be a turning point of one kind or another. It doesn't matter if that success has come on a ball field or in a boardroom, in a research laboratory or on a campaign trail - it can usually be traced to some pivotal moment.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Arne Duncan At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't been in this kind of financial duress since the great depression. And so what we have is just sort of a miraculous opportunity simply by stopping the subsidy to banks when we already have the risk of loans. We can plow those savings into our students. And we can make college dramatically more affordable, tens of billions of dollars over the next decade.
    Arne Duncan
    American civil servant (1964 - )
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  • Arsene Wenger At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.
    Arsene Wenger
    French football manager and former player (1949 - )
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