To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.
~By Timothy Radcliffe ~
Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out.
~By Roger Daltrey ~
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.
~By Potter Stewart ~
I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.
~By Tom Landry ~
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 ~
At some point he seemed to lose all confidence trying to break down the Berlin Wall. He was still fighting as only Kasparov can, but I could see it in his eyes that he knew he wasn't going to win one of these games.
~By Vladimir Kramnik ~
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 ~
From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.
~By Richard Cobden ~
Things said to a reporter in confidence should be kept in confidence.
~By Dorothy Kilgallen ~
And in doing this I advise you to send to the best manors of your lands those of your household in whom you place most confidence to be present in August at the leading of the corn, and to guard it as aforesaid.
~By Robert Grosseteste ~
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
~By Francis Atterbury ~
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 ~
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
~By Epicurus ~
Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
~By Countess of Blessington ~
In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.
~By Carter G. Woodson ~
All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.
~By Mark Twain ~
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 ~
In the long term, improving investor confidence is a marathon, not a sprint.
~By John Gavin ~
Winning Wimbledon was a great feeling and it is still a great feeling. It has given me so much confidence.
~By Goran Ivanisevic ~
That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country, and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together.
~By Jeff Miller ~
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 ~
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, knowing for certain that the person making the call has your safety foremost in their mind. And knowing that the job you are about to take on is the right thing to do, that it makes sense.
~By Paul Gleason ~
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 ~
Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.
~By Arnold Palmer ~
Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.
~By Richard Kline ~
Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
We found on our journey, as well as in the place where we stopped, that they treated us with as much confidence and good-will as if they had known us all their lives.
~By Junipero Serra ~
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 oldest pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub - he doesn't try to do it all himself.
~By Burleigh Grimes ~
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
~By Arthur Helps ~
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world, I love them so deeply for being able to overcome such unbelievable odds.
~By Camryn Manheim ~
I have confidence that the Unitarian Church will steadily grow and will help to sustain many of my fellow citizens in these important days that lie ahead of us.
~By Leverett Saltonstall ~
I like looking feminine and I enjoy being a role model. I enjoy being a woman. It all comes down to having the confidence to be who you are.
~By Cathy Freeman ~
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
~By George Herbert ~
Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.
~By Johnny Unitas ~
As to the question of elected or not elected, each member of the European Commission has been appointed jointly by the governments of the 15 member states, and undergone individual scrutiny and a vote of confidence from the European Parliament.
~By Mario Monti ~
Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.
~By Henry Norris Russell ~
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 ~
One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets.
~By Ralph Merkle ~
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 ~
The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let's extend the tax - the existing tax cuts. And then let's give some more tax breaks to small businesses and large. And then maybe the American people will have some confidence.
~By John McCain ~
Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
~By Jack Welch ~
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 ~
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 ~
Brooke and I share some similarities. We're both passionate, fiercely loyal people. But she is far more outlandish than I'd ever be, particularly with her body and her sexuality. Brooke has made herself weak for men - she only gained self-confidence from their attention.
~By Sophia Bush ~
There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.
~By Johnny Unitas ~
I am disposed to be thus particular from the interest you take in our welfare and from the entire confidence I have in your knowing, that you will be sympathetic with us in our misfortunes.
~By John Hawley ~
The finished product is often of less importance than the skills and confidence gained through the process and the way in which the community is strengthened through people in it work and are brought together.
~By Ben Edwards ~
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 ~
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 ~
Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system.
~By Dirk Kempthorne ~
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
~By Charles Darwin ~
He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
~By B. C. Forbes ~
You get confidence with wins.
~By Dave Rose ~
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 ~
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence.
~By John Bruton ~
I developed a great sense of self-confidence when I was very young.
~By Christie Hefner ~
Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
Ronald Reagan's vision of smaller government, less taxes, and a strong national defense has led to a prosperous America. As president, he rebuilt our military and reinvigorated our confidence in ourselves.
~By David Vitter ~
Golf is a matter of confidence. If you think you cannot do it, there is no chance you will.
~By Henry Cotton ~
Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.
~By Barbara Jordan ~
Oddly, because she has that confidence, the people around her like her more. She becomes more a part of the Reaper family, and she also is able to get along with people more outside of their circle as well.
~By Ellen Muth ~
If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
~By Oswald Chambers ~
Even if I were knocked down by one gunshot it wouldn't affect our democracy and I wasn't knocked down and I have great confidence in our democracy and in Taiwan and in the people of Taiwan.
~By Chen Shui-bian ~
The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.
~By Carter G. Woodson ~
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 ~
Always the eternal optimist, President Reagan instilled confidence and optimism at a time both were in short supply in our country.
~By Jim Ramstad ~
Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
~By Channing Pollock ~
The problem with the auto industry is layered upon the lack of consumer confidence. People are not buying cars. I don't care whether they're or American cars, or international cars.
~By Jennifer M. Granholm ~
The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.
~By Charles Rosen ~
Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements.
~By Chauncey Wright ~
If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love.
~By Alphonsus Liguori ~
It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank.
~By John George Nicolay ~
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 ~
And I love kick boxing. It's a lot of fun. It gives you a lot of confidence when you can kick somebody in the head.
~By Alicia Keys ~
With new jobs, new ideas, and growing confidence that our brightest days lie ahead, Wisconsin is on the move.
~By Jim Doyle ~
I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.
~By Wole Soyinka ~
We need to restore the confidence in the country, first of all.
~By Rafik Hariri ~
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 ~
The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.
~By Timothy Radcliffe ~
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 ~
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 ~
As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.
~By Kim Novak ~
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 ~
It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.
~By James Keller ~
When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.
~By Joe Namath ~
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 ~
Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.
~By Alphonsus Liguori ~
If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
~By Ilie Nastase ~
When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.
~By Eamon de Valera ~
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. ~
Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
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 ~
But we can turn challenges into opportunities if we look outwards to the realities of the global economy and modernise our internal institutions in ways that will equip Europe to meet that challenge and create confidence amongst the public.
~By John Hutton ~
With confidence, you have won before you have started.
~By Marcus Garvey ~
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