"Where so many hours have been spent..." - Quote by Jane Austen
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
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“There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.”
“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.”
“Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Barontage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; . . .”
More on Self Doubt
“Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.”
“People who pity themselves think, 'Why would I try to do anything? I'll just fail.'”
“The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on.”
More on Conviction
“With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least ten per cent of your net worth in that stock”
“Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.”
“You will only succeed if you know that what you are doing is right and you know how to bring out the best in people.”