Meet the sunrise with confidence.
– Alonzo Newton Benn
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.
– Ansel Adams
No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage.
– J. Lawton Collins
Nothing is less sincere than our mode of asking and giving advice. He who asks seems to have a deference for the opinion of his friend, while he only aims to get approval of his own and make his friend responsible for his action. And he who gives advice repays the confidence supposed to be placed in him by a seemingly disinterested zeal, while he seldom means anything by his advice but his own interest or reputation.
– Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.
– Abraham Maslow
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
– Helen Keller
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
– Baruch Spinoza
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny, he thinks he is in the world for something important and it gives him drive and confidence.
– Benjamin McLane Spock
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
– Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
– Samuel Johnson
Self-confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk-running and chance-taking are the only ways to catch it.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
– George Herbert
Tell no one the secret that you want to keep, although he may be worthy of confidence; for no one will be so careful of your secret as yourself.
– Saadi, On the Duties of Society
The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.
The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.
– Hasidic Saying
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
– Bertrand Russell V. Delong
The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man.
– Paul Sweezy
The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.
– Charles Hodge
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
– William Jennings Bryan
The worst thing that could happen to any economy is the loss of confidence. - [predicting the US economic crisis]
– Med Jones
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
– Cornelius Tacitus
