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Quote:Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.[Robert Frost]

Quote: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.[Colin Powell]

Quote: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.[George Washington]

Quote:You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do.[Eleanor Roosevelt]

Quote: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]

Quote: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. [Cato the Elder]

Quote:Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger. [Baltasar Gracian]

Quote:Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future. [Havelock Ellis]

Quote:I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time. [Arnold Bennett]

Quote:The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others. [Hasidic Saying]

Quote:Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy [Norman Vincent Peale]

Quote:All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. [Mark Twain]

Quote:It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]

Quote: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 have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do. [Eleanor Roosevelt]

Quote:Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. [Baruch Spinoza]



Definitions of: confidence

Definition: The act of confiding, trusting, or putting faith in; trust; reliance; belief; -- formerly followed by of, now commonly by in.

Definition: That in which faith is put or reliance had.

Definition: The state of mind characterized by one's reliance on himself, or his circumstances; a feeling of self-sufficiency; such assurance as leads to a feeling of security; self-reliance; -- often with self prefixed.

Definition: Private conversation; (pl.) secrets shared; as, there were confidences between them.

Definition: Trustful; without fear or suspicion; frank; unreserved.

Definition: Having self-reliance; bold; undaunted.

Definition: Having an excess of assurance; bold to a fault; dogmatical; impudent; presumptuous.

Definition: Giving occasion for confidence.

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