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The Most Read Books of the 2024 Reading Challenge (So Far)

Self Assurance Quotes

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Benjamin Spock
“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
― Benjamin Spock
tags: parenting, philosophy, self-assurance
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Charlotte Brontë
“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
tags: ataraxy, defiance, empowerment, independence, individuality, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
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Lao Tzu
“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: acceptance, contentment, perception, self-acceptance, self-assurance, self-confidence
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Michel de Montaigne
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
tags: ataraxy, independence, individuality, inspirational, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
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Maya Angelou
“Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.”
― Maya Angelou
tags: inner-strength, self-assurance
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Zora Neale Hurston
“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.”
― Zora Neale Hurston
tags: discrimination, humor, self-assurance, self-worth
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Zadie Smith
“She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.”
― zadie smith
tags: self-assurance, sex-appeal, women
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Marcus Aurelius
“For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
tags: ataraxy, independence, individuality, retire, self, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
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Flannery O'Connor
“In yourself right now is all the place you've got.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
tags: ataraxy, empowerment, independence, individuality, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
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Hugo Hamilton
“Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.”
― Hugo Hamilton, The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood
tags: anchoring, attachment, belonging, country, empowerment, home, homelessness, independence, individuality, inspirational, nationality, roots, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust
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Criss Jami
“I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy
tags: above-and-beyond, assurance, certainty, concealment, confidence, foolishness, humility, intelligence, philosophy, pretentiousness, profound, self-assurance, theory, within
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Bryce Courtenay
“Always in life an idea starts small, it is only a sapling idea, but the vines will come and they will try to choke your idea so it cannot grow, and it will die and you will never know you had a big idea, an idea so big it could have grown thirty meters through the dark canopy of leaves and touched the face of the sky. The vines are people who are afraid of originality, of new thinking. Most people you encounter will be vines; when you are a young plant they are very dangerous. Always listen to yourself, Peekay. It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention. If you are wrong, no matter, you have learned something and you grow stronger. If you are right, you have taken another step toward a fulfilling life.”
― Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One
tags: self-assurance, self-determination
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Ambrose Bierce
“Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
tags: assertions, certainty, errors, humor, mistakes, positive, satire, self-assurance
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Sharon Maas
“She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply say I am without adding a this, or a that, without saying I am Indian, Guyanese, English, or anything else in the world.”
― Sharon Maas, Of Marriageable Age
tags: anchoring, attachment, belonging, empowerment, freedom, home, homelessness, identity, independence, individuality, inspirational, nationality, roots, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust
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Howard Zinn
“The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance of their enemies, but the complacency of their friends, are precious catalysts for change.”
― Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
tags: catalyst, change, defiance, history, opposition, self-assurance
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Kristan Higgins
“Commandment #1: Believe in yourself. Commandment #2: Get over yourself.”
― Kristan Higgins
tags: self-acceptance, self-assurance, self-knowledge
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Terry Pratchett
“If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, then you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong.”
― Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight
tags: certainty, direction, knowledge, self-assurance
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Howard Zinn
“But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope.”
― Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
tags: confidence, conformity, declaration-of-independence, hope, individuality, non-conformity, resolves, self-assurance
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Gillian Flynn
“Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'Stop thinking', swig, 'empty your head', swig, 'now, seriously empty your head'.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
tags: alcohol, alcoholic, alone, binging, cat, cats, drinking, empty-your-head, ignorance, ignoring, insomnia, lonely, mantra, murphy-s-law, playing-hard-to-get, self-assurance, sleep, sleeping, stop-thinking, talking-to-yourself, the-mind, thinking, thinking-process, thoughts, voices-inside-your-head
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“One of my rules is never to look sideways at what other people are doing but instead, do what I feel is right.”
― Annie Bryant, Worst Enemies/Best Friends
tags: affirmation, children-s-books, children-s-literature, humanity, life-advice, self-assurance
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Robin McKinley
“With the knowledge of her aloneness came a rush of self-declaration: I will not be nothing.”
― Robin McKinley, Deerskin
tags: aloneness, confidence, self-assurance
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: aggravating, annoy, annoying, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, aplomb, assertive, assertiveness, assured, at-ease, bashful, bashfulness, boldness, bothersome, can-do, confident, coolheaded, courage, coyness, cursed, demureness, diffidence, diffident, embarrassed, embarrassment, exasperating, extrovert, extroverted, farouche, funny, galling, girl, girls, hilarious, humor, humorous, humour, imperturbable, infuriating, inhibited, insecure, introversion, introvert, introverted, irksome, irritate, irritating, irritation, joke, jokes, lack-of-confidence, levelheaded, maddening, man, men, mettle, mousiness, mousy, nerve, nervous, nettlesome, obnoxious, pesky, phlegm, phlegmatic, poise, poised, positive, quotations, quotes, repressed, reserve, reserved, reservedness, reticence, reticent, retiring, satire, self-assurance, self-assured, self-confidence, self-confident, self-conscious, self-consciousness, self-effacing, self-possessed, self-possession, self-reliant, sheepish, sheepishness, shy, shyness, timid, timidity, timidness, timorous, timorousness, tiresome, together, troublesome, trying, unconfident, unperturbed, unruffled, vexatious, vexing, withdrawn
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Douglas Adams
“Zaphod marched quickly down the passageway, nervous as hell, but trying to hide it by striding purposefully.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
tags: bravado, self-assurance, self-confidence
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Sylvia Plath
“A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
tags: children, self-assurance
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Criss Jami
“Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy
tags: correctness, faith, knowing, learning, mistakes, perspective, pride, righteous, self-assurance, thought, train, truth
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Robert Harris
“Tak usah cemas, akan banyak waktu untuk tidur setelah kita mati.”
― Robert Harris, Imperium
tags: inspirational, self-assurance
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Viktor E. Frankl
“Just as the small fire is extinguished by the storm while a large fire is enhanced by it, likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicaments and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
tags: faith, predicament, self-assurance
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Lauren Edmondson
“I was aware I was still a spectacle, but the trauma I might have felt months ago never surfaced. Whatever they thought about me, finally, was not the same as what I thought about myself.”
― Lauren Edmondson, Ladies of the House: A Modern Retelling of Sense and Sensibility
tags: confidence, growth, power-of-thoughts, self-acceptance, self-assurance, self-belief
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“Embracing change and uncertainty with confidence is the ultimate test of your self-assurance.”
― Felecia Etienne
tags: confidence, dealing-with-uncertainty, embracing-change, personal-growth, resilience, self-assurance
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“Confidence is like wearing a superhero cape under your everyday clothes. It's the secret weapon that makes you feel unstoppable, even on days when you're just winging it. So, rock that messy hair and embrace your awkward moments like they're the latest fashion trend. After all, confidence isn't just about knowing you can handle anything; it's about laughing in the face of challenges and saying, "Watch out, world, here I come!”
― Life is Positive
tags: assertiveness, courage, empowerment, inner-strength, personal-growth, positive-mindset, self-assurance, self-belief, self-esteem, self-respect
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