351 quotes
People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
Ovid
Poet
Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.
Timothy Radcliffe
Clergyman · English
We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.
Epicurus
Philosopher · Greek
I didn't have that much confidence. Maybe it looks that way. I'm glad it does.
Elia Kazan
Director · American · 1909 – 2003
Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
Brian Tracy
Author · American
Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.
Thomas Kempis
Writer · German
The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.
Georg Simmel
Sociologist · German · 1858 – 1918
The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
Felix Frankfurter
Judge · American · 1882 – 1965
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
Ben Jonson
Poet · English · 1572 – 1637
By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate.
Joseph Epstein
Writer · American · b. 1937
The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America.
Robert Mueller
Public Servant · American · b. 1944
There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
John Calvin
Theologian · French · 1509 – 1564
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.
Robert Collier
Publisher · American
Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain.
Roland Joffe
Director · English · b. 1945
Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
Karl Barth
Theologian · Swiss · 1886 – 1968
Yet you should practice the greatest possible love and confidence in treating with Him.
Alphonsus Liguori
Clergyman · Italian · 1696 – 1787
Our expanding Canadian operations are concrete evidence of General Motors confidence in Canada.
Charles E. Wilson
Businessman · American · 1886 – 1972
The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
Rene Descartes
Mathematician · French · 1596 – 1650
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
Oswald Chambers
Theologian · Scottish · 1874 – 1917
I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.
Barbara Jordan
Lawyer · American · 1936 – 1996
Without rebuilding the confidence between parties, you will never succeed.
Harri Holkeri
Politician · Finnish · b. 1937
Thanks to President Bush and Republican principles, businesses now have more confidence to hire workers.
John Doolittle
Politician · American · b. 1950
It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.
Lillian Hellman
Dramatist · American · 1907 – 1984
I have a high degree of confidence about India's growth potential in IT.
Sanjay Kumar
Businessman
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
Marcus Garvey
Publisher · Jamaican · 1887 – 1940
False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.
Hesiod
Poet · Greek
A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence.
John Bruton
Politician · Irish · b. 1947
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.
Carter G. Woodson
Historian · American · 1875 – 1950
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
Clergyman · American · 1898 – 1993
Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
James Madison
President · American · 1751 – 1836
Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world.
Ann Macbeth
Author · English
Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.
Virgil
In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.
The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only.
Bob Riley
Politician · American
With new jobs, new ideas, and growing confidence that our brightest days lie ahead, Wisconsin is on the move.
Jim Doyle
Politician · American · b. 1945
The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.
Charles Hodge
Theologian · American
As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
William Hazlitt
Critic · English · 1778 – 1830
Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
President · American · 1882 – 1945
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
George Herbert
Poet · British · 1593 – 1633
Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years.
John Osborne
Playwright · English · 1929 – 1994
Strengthening our identity is one way of reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being.
David Blunkett
Politician · British · b. 1947
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
Robert Hughes
Critic · Australian · b. 1938
When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.
DeForest Soaries
Politician · American · b. 1951
Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
George McGovern
Politician · American · b. 1922
I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness.
Giorgio Armani
Designer · Italian · b. 1934
Confidence-building is not something that can go on forever. If it goes on forever then it becomes counterproductive.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
Activist · b. 1945