Quotes to Feel Confident · Page 18

Empowering words to remind you of your worth and unlimited potential.

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“Being a leader is an awesome responsibility. There are days when it can be frightening to know that the fate of the organization rests on your shoulders.”

— William H. McRaven

“As a leader you can't have a bad day. You must never look beaten, no matter the circumstance.”

— William H. McRaven

“It is advertised as “a seagoin’ comedy,” and anytime they go leaving off the final g that way, you know what to expect.”

— Dorothy Parker

“What matters it, that, all around, Danger, and guilt, and darkness lie, If but within our bosom's bound We hold a bright, untroubled sky, Warm with ten thousand mingled rays Of…”

— Emily Brontë

“Barking dogs never bite. The danger in France arose from silent and instantaneous action. They said nothing, and did every thing—ours say every thing, and will do nothing.”

— Horace Walpole

“It is natural for us to seek a Standard of Taste; a rule, by which the various sentiments of men may be reconciled; at least, a decision, afforded, confirming one sentiment, and…”

— David Hume

“You would not think any duty small, If you yourself were great.”

— George MacDonald

“An atheist-laugh's a poor exchange For Deity offended.”

— Robert Burns

“The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure…”

— Italo Calvino

“When there is genuine artistry in scientific inquiry and philosophic speculation, a thinker proceeds neither by rule nor yet blindly, but by means of meaning that exist…”

— John Dewey

“I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“The life expectancy for Americans has practically doubled over the course of this century. Now it is our responsibility to ensure that from cradle to grave, these years are ones…”

— Christopher Reeve

“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates.”

— Thomas Szasz

“Moreover, the concept of mental illness also undermines the principle of personal responsibility, the ground on which all free political institutions rest.”

— Thomas Szasz

“Why is self-control, autonomy, such a threat to authority? Because the person who controls himself, who is his own master, has no need for an authority to be his master.”

— Thomas Szasz