Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

Self-confidence is not hope; it is the self-judgment of your own internal forces in their relation to the world without, which results from the failure of many hopes and the non-realization of many fears.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

• Hope
• Failure
• Relation
• Self-confidence
• Self-judgment

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• Self-confidence is not hope; it is the self-judgment of your own internal forces in their relation to the world without, which results from the failure of many hopes and the non-realization of many fears.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Hope
  • Failure
  • Relation