"Confidence is a belief in myself and my ability. I built my confidence through hard training. I believed there was no one out there working any harder than me."

-- Joan Benoit

#Confidence Quotes #Training Quotes #Belief Quotes

“I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.”
“Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge.”
“This re-appearance of the doctrine of freewill serves to support that of the pretension of the natural man to be not irremediably fallen, for this is what such doctrine tends to. All who have never been deeply convicted of sin, all persons in whom this conviction is based on gross external sins, believe more or less in freewill”

Source : John Nelson Darby (1881). “Letters by J.N.D., 1849-1875; extracts tr. from the French”
“[N]o clear steps have actually been taken to apprehend and prosecute those known to have been in command of the camp or the forces operating there....The new government of Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has pledged to act. It must now generate the political will to act. The protection of those responsible for this crime can no longer be tolerated.”
“I was on Facebook. I was on MySpace. And somebody said to me, You should check out this thing called Twitter. I knew five people that were on it, so I started following those people and seeing what they were doing, and then I applied my own sensibility to it. The more that I shared, the more people started following me.”
“Listen, smile, agree, then do whatever you were going to do anyway.”
“I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way. Being ignored is a great privilege. That is how I think I learned to see what others do not see and to react to situations differently. I simply looked at the world, not really prepared for anything.”
“There's so much stuff being written! Every year, how many books come out? I can't keep up, and I read a lot. It's amazing.”

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