I emphasize... that the Harrimans showed great courage and loyalty and confidence in us, because three or four of us were really running the business, the day to day business.
~By Prescott Bush ~
I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting.
~By Amanda Seyfried ~
Denzel Washington invoked confidence. When you have confidence, you can do anything. And that's what happened. I learned about being honest and keeping it true, keeping it true in my performance.
~By Derek Luke ~
You get confidence with wins.
~By Dave Rose ~
The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America.
~By Robert Mueller ~
I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.
~By Maggie Gyllenhaal ~
With confidence, you have won before you have started.
~By Marcus Garvey ~
A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.
~By Marvin Bower ~
Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach.
~By James Wolfe ~
Danger breeds best on too much confidence.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other.
~By Isaac Barrow ~
Strengthening our identity is one way of reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being.
~By David Blunkett ~
I think it is important to maintain a sense of self and confidence, not letting either falter for the sake of a particular part or project, no matter how great it might be.
~By Fred Savage ~
I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.
~By Loretta Young ~
However, I must say that I am very happy to see that we have such a positive result for our first referendum in our history and that gives me more confidence in Taiwan's democracy.
~By Chen Shui-bian ~
I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.
~By Gareth Gates ~
I'm sure that they will continue to look for ways to try and undermine my support, but I have every confidence that in doing this job for South Dakota, I will continue to build on my support and be able to succeed once again in November.
~By Stephanie Herseth ~
When I wasn't as attractive as I am now, I suffered at the hands of cruel children and their taunts until I realised that confidence and a bit of aesthetic care can overcome that.
~By Johnny Vegas ~
The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.
~By Linda Vester ~
The bottom line in my view is that America's mothers and fathers deserve to have confidence in law enforcement's ability to ensure that their children are being raised in the safest possible environment.
~By Bob Ney ~
It's easy to say young people should believe in themselves, but the number one thing is recognizing that it's a journey, that you have to build confidence in yourself.
~By Andrew Shue ~
If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
~By Ilie Nastase ~
Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
~By George McGovern ~
As a scouting department, with the confidence we have in our player development, if a guy has the potential that we think they have and the makeup and they stay healthy, we think they will be a productive Major Leaguer. We take a lot of pride in that.
~By Roy Clark ~
I had a lot of self-confidence.
~By Bowie Kuhn ~
The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.
~By Timothy Radcliffe ~
The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are - as women and as mothers.
~By Arianna Huffington ~
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
This was all very new to me and I did not want to ruin his film! So we worked hard on that basis of confidence that is needed to collaborate comfortably.
~By Helena Christensen ~
There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.
~By Kiefer Sutherland ~
The only way to get back the confidence is to play and win matches. You can practise as much as you like, but you need confidence that comes from playing and winning matches.
~By Greg Rusedski ~
Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.
~By Paul J. Meyer ~
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
~By Aristotle ~
I am always drawn to men that are funny. I do not know why. But I am always drawn to people that are struggling with parts of themselves... But it's like in the end, there has to be confidence.
~By Vanessa Carlton ~
I think it was always there and it was maybe a matter of bringing it out. It was harder than I thought it would be and I had to try harder. I had to regain my confidence, maybe the most important thing. I have learned a lot to relax. I know what I can do now, and I do it.
~By Guy Lafleur ~
Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.
~By Virgil ~
I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness.
~By Giorgio Armani ~
I have a friend who, if she has a bad hair day, it affects her whole mood because it is part of her sexuality, her confidence. I don't have that problem any more.
~By Cathy Freeman ~
In the long term, improving investor confidence is a marathon, not a sprint.
~By John Gavin ~
Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.
~By John Lothrop Motley ~
When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence.
~By Scott Hamilton ~
My colleagues have expressed confidence in my ability to articulate our conservative message and to provide new focus to our efforts in the General Assembly.
~By Philip E. Berger ~
We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.
~By Epicurus ~
Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter.
~By Harry Houdini ~
It was a great time here in the States this year, and definitely I feel like I'm playing well again. I gained a lot of confidence in the last couple of weeks, and I just have to, you know, keep going and keep the momentum now.
~By Daniela Hantuchova ~
But I do think the survey group - and I think Charlie Duelfer is a great leader. I have the utmost confidence in Charles. I think you will get as full an answer as you can possibly get.
~By David Kay ~
Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.
~By Timothy Radcliffe ~
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'.
~By Jon Huntsman, Jr. ~
The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.
~By Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ~
It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.
~By David Storey ~
Growing up, I started developing confidence in what I felt. My parents helped me to believe in myself. I wasn't the best looking guy, I wasn't the best athlete in the world, but they made me feel good about myself.
~By Herschel Walker ~
We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.
~By Alan Shearer ~
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
~By Ansel Adams ~
At that time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and I believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Russia and Germany to fight each other to the death.
~By Klaus Fuchs ~
When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges.
~By Terence Stamp ~
This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn't have confidence in himself or else he doesn't believe in what he's doing.
~By Betty Carter ~
Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.
~By Terry Bradshaw ~
Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
~By Lao Tzu ~
When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.
~By Mary Frances Berry ~
The monitors indicated that it was a credible election, I think, in an overall sense, it apparently is a free and fair election, so it's a real milestone and one of the things we can take some little confidence in.
~By Warren Christopher ~
It is obvious that putting the Arab-Israeli dispute on a resolution track would be an important element of overcoming the confidence problem in the region.
~By Recep Tayyip Erdogan ~
Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.
~By William Pitt ~
We started a movement... to build character, citizenship and confidence in young people.
~By Andrew Shue ~
My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised.
~By Robin Wright Penn ~
I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will?
~By Johnny Unitas ~
The oldest pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub - he doesn't try to do it all himself.
~By Burleigh Grimes ~
It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.
~By Arthur Eddington ~
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
~By Marcus Garvey ~
Everybody wants to be somebody. The thing you have to do is give them confidence they can. You have to give a kid a dream.
~By George Foreman ~
Being the youngest of five, you're adored, you're fueled with confidence.
~By Martin Short ~
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.'
~By Tom Hooper ~
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
~By William Jennings Bryan ~
Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.
~By John H. Johnson ~
For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.
~By Charley Pride ~
Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs.
~By Kamisese Mara ~
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
~By Lao Tzu ~
No one can duplicate the confidence that RSA offers after 20 years of cryptanalytic review.
~By Bruce Schneier ~
Our cattlemen have given us the safest, most abundant, most affordable beef supply in the world and I trust their judgment. And if you look at consumer confidence in this country, so does the American public.
~By Norm Coleman ~
To be a good model, I'd need a lot more confidence... and more confidence to be more bare.
~By Jill Hennessy ~
You would have to say his number one accomplishment has been to inspire a sense of confidence in the country. That confidence, that optimism, not only gives President Obama a political cushion, but it could have a real world economic impact.
~By George Stephanopoulos ~
Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.
~By Pope John Paul II ~
If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum.
~By Elaine MacDonald ~
Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
Confidence has a lot to do with interviewing - that, and timing.
~By Michael Parkinson ~
We have to have a way of dealing with this that engenders confidence, trust, gives us every chance of getting the right outcome and boosts both sustainability and economic return at the same time.
~By John Anderson ~
Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.
~By Benjamin Spock ~
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
~By Ben Jonson ~
Golf is a matter of confidence. If you think you cannot do it, there is no chance you will.
~By Henry Cotton ~
Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.
~By Lindsay Lohan ~
I haven't seen a player in this game, as long as I've been in it, that can't be pitched to... Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out.
~By Frank Robinson ~
You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.
~By Joe Paterno ~
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
~By Colin Powell ~
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