This - the leadership of the mayor is crucial, because it is to the mayor that people will look to provide the vision, the energy, and the sense of confidence in the rebuilding and the recovery. ~By Marc Morial ~
Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause. ~By Arthur Henderson ~
I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence. ~By Gabriela Sabatini ~
If we will maintain our hope and confidence in the genius of our people, they will work out this problem, and their ability and industry will bring us back to normal conditions. ~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King. ~By Orison Swett Marden ~
I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed. ~By Tim Robbins ~
To restore and keep the public's confidence in the integrity of their government, state government and its officials must be open, honest and transparent. ~By John Lynch ~
It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch. ~By Michael Korda ~
The three traits speculators must learn to manage within themselves are confidence, fear, and aggressiveness. ~By Larry Williams ~
Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure. ~By Gary Ryan Blair ~
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 ~
But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to. ~By Sam Donaldson ~
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 ~
I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community. ~By Barbara Jordan ~
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 ~
Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control. ~By Richard Kline ~
The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people. ~By Paulo Freire ~
Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done. ~By Johnny Unitas ~
Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things. ~By Joshua Lederberg ~
This is how I define grace: you're on the main stage, and it looks like it has been rehearsed 100 times, everything goes so smoothly. That's where I get my confidence and success, from knowing that I have an edge because I know I'm prepared. ~By Alex Rodriguez ~
Community service has taught me all kinds of skills and increased my confidence. You go out there and think on your feet, work with others and create something from nothing. That's what life's all about. ~By Andrew Shue ~
I like the feeling that I'm giving young women self-confidence. It sounds so cliched, but it can be very moving. ~By Shirley Manson ~
My friend made me a leather dress for the MTV awards. It gives you confidence, wearing something you love. ~By Cat Deeley ~
Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress. ~By Bruce Barton ~
In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to get results. ~By Harri Holkeri ~
The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America. ~By Robert Mueller ~
In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end. ~By Gerald R. Ford ~
It should strengthen investors' confidence. This is done through transparency, high quality financial reports, and a standardized economic market. This is not just for China, but also for the world market as a whole. ~By Richard Grasso ~
The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence. ~By Michel de Montaigne ~
Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result. ~By Andrew Jackson ~
We need to restore the confidence in the country, first of all. ~By Rafik Hariri ~
Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't. ~By Jerry West ~
When we first went there we completely lacked confidence. Our manager told us our act was too long, and told us to drop certain numbers and concentrate on the exciting stuff. And he was right. ~By Steve Marriott ~
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ~By Robert Frost ~
I did a film which was considered an independent movie with Dustin Hoffman and Andy Garcia called Confidence, and that's the type of film I was willing to take a chance on that because of the caliber of people involved with the film. ~By Morris Chestnut ~
I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before. ~By Winona Ryder ~
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 ~
Confidence-building is not something that can go on forever. If it goes on forever then it becomes counterproductive. ~By Daw Aung San Suu Kyi ~
Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15. ~By Hedy Lamarr ~
Sharpe is my favorite role of all that I've played. He's a very complex character. He knows that he's a good soldier, but he will always have to fight the prejudice of aristocratic officers because of his rough working-class upbringing. On the battlefield, he's full of confidence - but off it, he is unsure, a bit shy and ill at ease. ~By Sean Bean ~
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times. ~By Martin Luther ~
I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true. ~By Arsenio Hall ~
With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence. ~By Saul Bellow ~
Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not. ~By Vanessa Hudgens ~
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. ~By Lao Tzu ~
Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone. ~By Karl Barth ~
When you really believe in God, it gives you a courage, a confidence that enables you to meet the things coming. ~By Della Reese ~
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' ~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
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 ~
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 ~
In the long term, improving investor confidence is a marathon, not a sprint. ~By John Gavin ~
I love the confidence that makeup gives me. ~By Tyra Banks ~
And I might add the confidence with which distracted persons do oftentimes, when they are awake, think, they see black fiends in places, where there is no black object in sight without them. ~By Robert Boyle ~
We've played with a lot of confidence and that's been the key so far. Hopefully, we can take more confidence into the playoffs. ~By Teemu Selanne ~
Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference. ~By Tom Watson ~
It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it. ~By Lillian Hellman ~
Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in me and Mike and Ed and Leslie and Steve, that we're not going go out and do stories that will put people to sleep. ~By Morley Safer ~
In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money. ~By Carter G. Woodson ~
Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control. ~By Tom Landry ~
Our expanding Canadian operations are concrete evidence of General Motors confidence in Canada. ~By Charles E. Wilson ~
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. ~By George Herbert ~
And so we try to address those concerns in every way possible, recognizing, again, in the final analysis, everybody on that flight wants to be assured with the highest level of confidence that everybody else on that flight has been properly screened, and including me and you and everybody. ~By John Pistole ~
In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody. ~By Gertrude Stein ~
He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views. ~By William Congreve ~
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 ~
By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate. ~By Joseph Epstein ~
I don't have the confidence to be a personality. ~By Zoe Wanamaker ~
The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick. ~By Angela Carter ~
I was feeling a lot of confidence, so I wanted to take advantage of that and keep playing. ~By Gabriela Sabatini ~
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 ~
I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done. ~By Robert Downey, Jr. ~
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 ~
I hope you will respond to the crisis of confidence that Watergate has created by opening up your administration and reaching out to people in a more magnanimous spirit. ~By Elliot Richardson ~
The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity, I think, of a lack of confidence. ~By Douglas Dunn ~
Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain. ~By Roland Joffe ~
Confidence is everything in this business. ~By Reese Witherspoon ~
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. ~By Ann Landers ~
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 ~
Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't. ~By Jeanette Winterson ~
The crowd gives us so much energy and we are able to really feed off of it. Hitting those shots and having the crowd go crazy helps boost our confidence. We love our fans. ~By Steve Nash ~
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 ~
It used to be that a son could look at the father, and pretty much know what life was gonna be like as an adult. There was confidence in that, and comfort in that, and frustration also. ~By Clancy Brown ~
I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all. ~By Loretta Young ~
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 ~
I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience. ~By Alain Prost ~
It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair. ~By Zalmay Khalilzad ~
Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy. ~By Larry David ~
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 ~
Danger breeds best on too much confidence. ~By Pierre Corneille ~
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 ~
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 ~
I believe the public's confidence would be increased if the federal government took over the functions of airport security screening for all passengers. ~By David Neeleman ~
I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence. ~By Jeannette Walls ~
When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure. ~By DeForest Soaries ~
You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit. ~By Joe Paterno ~
Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason. ~By Timothy Radcliffe ~
For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum. ~By Floyd Patterson ~
You may be right that people say: 'You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy had great rhetoric, sounded good, looked good, but has turned out to be an utter disaster. I want someone where I have confidence and credibility that they're up to the job and that I can trust what they tell me.' ~By Karl Rove ~
We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need. ~By Epicurus ~
The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers. ~By Arthur Erickson ~
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