Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

—Philip Adams

About Philip Adams

Sir Philip George Doyne Adams KCMG (17 December 1915 – 14 October 2001) was a British career diplomat.

More quotations tagged with “confidence”

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy

—Oprah Winfrey

The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.

If I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle.

—Hasidic Saying

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

—Baltasar Gracián

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

—Arnold Palmer

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11 Jul 2015 Added