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Showing posts with label self-confidence. Show all posts
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Thursday, August 31, 2017

Post #2394

The great characteristic of men of active genius is a sublime self-confidence. Springing not from self—conceit, but from an intense identification of the man with his object, which lifts him altogether above the fear of danger and death, which gives to his enterprise a character of insanity to the common eye, and which communicates an almost superhuman audacity to his will.
—E. P. Whipple
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Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Post #2367

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
—Benjamin Franklin

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Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Post #1998

Be the first to laugh at your own blunder, and no one will laugh at you.
―Publilius Syrus
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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Post #1308

Clear your mind of can't.
—Samuel Johnson

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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Post #1293

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.
—José Ortega y Gasset
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Monday, February 18, 2013

Post #1192

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
—George Herbert
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Post #1165

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
—Jim Valvano
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Post #1164

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Friday, September 28, 2012

Post #1071

Confidence comes from not always being right, but from not fearing being wrong.
—Peter McIntyre
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Monday, June 04, 2012

Post #969

Nothing would be done at all if a man waits until he can do it so well that no one can find fault with it.
—John Newman

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Saturday, May 26, 2012

Post #962

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
—Jonathan Swift
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Sunday, January 15, 2012

Post #832

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
—Christian Bovee
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Saturday, January 14, 2012

Post #831

Gamblin's my nature, Ramblin's my game. Deal me out your hardest card. I'll win this God Damn game.
—Woody Guthrie
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Post #828

They can because they think they can.
—Virgil
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Sunday, May 22, 2011

Post #597

Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.
—Diana Black

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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Post #571

Conquer but never triumph.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Monday, October 25, 2010

Post #388

He who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.
—Boiste
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Friday, September 10, 2010

Post #343

How many things I can do without!
—Socrates

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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Post #312

Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he Who finds himself, loses misery.
—Matthew Arnold
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Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Post #124

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
—Samuel Johnson
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The Penalty of Leadership

In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be mediocre, he will be left severely alone – if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a -wagging. Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious, continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by. The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy – but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as human passions – envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains – the leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live — lives.
written by Theodore F. MacManus

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