If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

—Ruben Studdard

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Christopher Theodore Ruben Studdard (born September 12, 1978) is an American singer and actor. He rose to fame as the winner of the second season of American Idol and received a Grammy Award nomination in 2003 for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for his recording of "Superstar". In the years...

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You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay.

—Ruben Studdard

People don't have to like or support you, so you always have to say thank you.

—Ruben Studdard

I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself.

—Ruben Studdard

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It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.

—Rosalynn Carter

Feeling special is the worst kind of cage a person can build for himself.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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.

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