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“Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.” Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's
“To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in one’s self.” Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
“The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favours such a confidence.” Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
“In this stupid world most people never consider that a thing is good to be done unless it is done by their own set.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“The tax which each individual is bound to pay, ought to be certain and not arbitrary.” Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
“don’t be over-wise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid—the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
“every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.” Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesn't force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come.” Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“When you have a well-developed body and you're confident, you see people bending your way, wanting to be on your side, wanting to do things for you.” Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder

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