Be courteous to all, but intimate with few and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
– George Washington
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
– Aimee Mullins
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it.
– Edgar Allan Poe
I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence.
– Arthur S. Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you started.
– Marcus Garvey
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time you can even fool some of the people all the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
– Abraham Lincoln
In essence, the confidence is only a manifestation of irresponsibility.
– Woody Haldrugold
It is expected from the government officials and the financial sector to selectively report on the good news to avoid investors panic and maintain confidence in the economy. Unfortunately building confidence has been the name of the game since the beginning of the crisis rather than real economic reforms.
– Med Jones
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
– Brian Adams
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
– Helen Keller
The worst thing that could happen to any economy is the loss of confidence. - [predicting the US economic crisis]
We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender.
– Winston Churchill
Who has confidence in himself will gain the confidene of others.
– Leib Lazarow
If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.
– Swami Sivanada
I have great faith in fools -- self confidence my friends call it.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
– Rene Descartes
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
– Marie Curie
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
– Samuel Johnson
Countries that have strong pre-crisis macroeconomic metrics, rich natural resources and export-based industries have stronger recovery prospects. Strong budgets allow the government to stimulate the economy with less debt burden. Exports play a significant role in supporting a stable interest rate and ex-change rates thus renewing investors confidence and recovery.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
– Robert Frost
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
– Mao Zedong
The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.
– Hasidic Saying
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
