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1 " Most people want peace without the aloneness of [spiritual] power. And they want the self-confidence of adulthood without having to grow up. "
― M. Scott Peck , The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
2 " We doubt ourselves. It's not about lowering the self-esteem. It's about increasing the self-confidence by letting the risk factor do its part "
― Bhavik Sarkhedi
3 " Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid. "
― Leo Tolstoy , War and Peace
4 " Every individual has some qualities that endear him to some other. And per contra, I doubt if there is any class which is not detestable to some other class. Artists, police, the clergy, " reds," foxhunters, Freemasons, Jews, " heaven-born," women's clubwomen (especially in U.S.A.), " Methodys," golfers, dog-lovers; you can't find one body without its " natural" enemies. It's right, what's worse; every class, as a class, is almost sure to have more defects than qualities. As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it. Collect scholars on a club committee, or men of science on a jury; all their virtues vanish, and their vices pop out, reinforced by the self-confidence which the power of numbers is bound to bestow. "
