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• n  freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities

• In the end, maybe the best defense you can give your kids is not a blind fear of strangers but rather instilling self-assurance and presence of mind.
• But there were also many astute replies, carrying a ring of self-assurance and authority.
• His paranoia, propping up his self-assurance, knew no bounds.

• assurance
• confidence
• self-confidence
• authority
• sureness

News & Articles

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• 124 Minutes With Mavis Staples
  The first words you hear on Mavis Staples’s new album, One True Vine, take quiet wing with gospel self-assurance: “Some hoooly ghost … keeps me hangin’ on … I feel the hands I don’t see ­a-ny-­onnnne.” Which makes her sound very, very churchly, but in person she cackles with nonstop ... More »
  June 17, 2013 - Vulture
• Matt Gilchrest Wins 2013 FJ Invitational By Four Strokes
  Gilchrest says the win is his biggest ever and gives the future Auburn Tiger self-assurance heading into his freshman year.
  June 14, 2013 - WFMY News 2 Greensboro

Quotes

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• Salam Fayyad in Ynetnews
  Who would have believed in 2007 that we would succeed in reaching all of the security achievements we have made in the past two years. The success has increased our self-assurance that we are capable of achieving additional goals,Fayyad said....
• Larry Rothschild in USA Today
  This year, he's just quietly going about his business and has a strong self-assurance,pitching coach Larry Rothschild said.
• Fernando Meira in Reuters.uk
  We know we didn't really play well against Hanover,captain Fernando Meira told reporters, after the team needed an own-goal to clinch the win. "But without playing well we won and that will give us self-assurance. We need to take that in...