Quotes with self-belief

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  • Mark Twain The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • George Harrison The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion and until the end of my life people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.
    George Harrison
    English musician, singer and songwriter (1943 - 2001)
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  • Joseph Conrad The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Bill Gates The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Red Auerbach The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.
    Red Auerbach
    American basketball coach of the Washington Capitols, the Tri-Cities B (1917 - 2006)
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  • James Baldwin The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Marcel Proust The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Rabindranath Tagore The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Indian mystic and poet (1861 - 1941)
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  • Calvin Trillin The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Beck The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Aldous Huxley The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller The courage to cooperate or initiate are based entirely on the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth as the divine mind within you tells you the truth is. It really does require a courage and a self-disciplining to go along with that truth.
    Only Integrity is Going to Count (1983)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Francis H. Bradley The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
    Francis H. Bradley
    British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • Carroll Quigley The difference between a stable society and an unstable one is that the restraints in an unstable one are external. In a stable society government ultimately becomes unnecessary; the restraints on people's actions are internal, they're self-disciplined...
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Samuel Smiles The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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