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Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or a realization of our duty and privilege as one of God's children. - Phillips Brooks Self-confidence is not hope; it is the self-judgment of your own internal forces in their relation to the world without, which results from the failure of many hopes and the non-realization of many fears. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") 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. - Edwin Percy Whipple
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