A Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

Simone de Beauvoir

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Body Confidence Lose Oneself

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Simone de Beauvoir
French - Writer
January 9, 1908 - April 14, 1986

What I learned about stammering was that, when as a young child you lose the confidence of anyone who wants to listen to you, you lose confidence in your voice and the right to speech. And a lot of the therapy was saying, 'You have a right to be heard.'

Tom Hooper

I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.

Vernon Wells

You must not lose confidence in God because you lost confidence in your pastor. If our confidence in God had to depend upon our confidence in any human person, we would be on shifting sand.

Francis Schaeffer

I had the trade minister in China sit down as we were preparing for trade negotiations. He said, 'Please don't let people in the United States lose their confidence because when you lose your confidence, the rest of the world suffers'.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

You can lose money, and you can lose all sorts of things, but you can't lose your self-confidence.

Rex Hunt

Injuries made people lose confidence in me, but I never lost confidence in myself.

Penny Hardaway

If you are physically ready to play, it's a matter of confidence. Your confidence goes down when you lose games, when shots are not going in.

Toni Kukoc

You lose a game and you lose confidence and we get that back through hard work.

Steve Bruce

Footballers are the most vulnerable people. They exude confidence, but inside, they're so lacking in confidence. They know they can lose form or be injured. This profession is so insecure, you wouldn't believe it.

Gordon Taylor

If I lose my confidence, then I'll lose my way.

Kenny Omega

Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that lowers confidence levels even further, on and on.

Robert Greene

I ain't going to lose confidence. Once you have it, you have it. Just because confidence comes from within you and you just have to continue to push yourself.

Collin Sexton

There are times when people that you put in those positions make mistakes, they disappoint you, you lose their - you lose your confidence in them, or they lie to you. And when you find that out, the test of leadership is what do you do?

Chris Christie

I'm not able to work anymore as an actor and still at the level I would want to... you start to lose your memory. You start to lose your confidence. You start to lose your invention. So, that's pretty much a closed book for me.

Paul Newman

You go from being with the guys all the time in the locker room, in practice, having a militarized brain in terms of this schedule, and then, all of a sudden, you are on your own. You lose a sense of purpose; you lose a sense of yourself. And you lose confidence. You find yourself saying, 'I was the best at this, and now I'm not the best.'

Chris Bosh

Leaders thrive when they feel creatively empowered, when they trust the people around them, when their confidence is swelling. Leaders make mistakes when they lose that same confidence, when they're fretting about their power base, when they're reacting instead of acting.

Bill Simmons

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