Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.
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.
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
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.
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.