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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not. [Wise words from one so young!]
Vanessa Hudgens

It is a lack of confidence in our systems of control that can foster bigotry.
Charles Clarke

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
Joe Paterno

He needs a bit of an adrenaline surge in the balls to give him confidence
Willie Thorne

Most frequently we make confidants from vanity, a love of talking, a wish to win the confidence of others, and to make an exchange of secrets
Duc De La Rochefoucauld

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
Arthur Ashe

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
Thornton Wilder

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
Sigmund Freud

I didn't play regularly because I was injured and when I did play I didn't get a run in my best position. I never felt any confidence from Stuart Pearce last year. It is why, even when I was on the pitch, I was not the real Antoine Sibierski
Antoine Sibierski

Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself... And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.
Virginia Woolf

We have got to have a leadership that has the confidence of the whole party that is attractive in putting forward our policies.
Michael Foster

The national identity card scheme will give people confidence, convenience and security in an increasingly vital aspect ofmodern life - proving and protecting their identity. [He didn't say how]
David Blunkett

In the target seats we have been going like a bomb and there is a great deal of confidence. I think there's going to be a great deal of regional variation throughout the UK.
Sir Menzies Campbell

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
Francis Atterbury

Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit
Duc De La Rochefoucauld

Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is elan, esprit de corps and determination.
George Marshall

In the space of one delivery so much had changed. My confidence was sky-high. I was pumped up and rock'n'rolling.
Shane Warne

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.
Pierre Corneille

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
Lao Tzu

Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.
Arnold Palmer

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
George Herbert

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
Jack Nicklaus

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
Jack Welch

His great trick was making the game simple, supplying players with the confidence and self-belief of Muhammad Ali [on Brian Clough]
John McGovern

The oldest pitcher acquires confidence in his ball club - he doesn't try to do it all himself.
Burleigh Grimes

I believe it is wrong to undermine public safety, and indeed public confidence in the concept of human rights, by allowing highly dangerous criminals and terrorists to trump the rights of the people of Britain to live in security and peace
David Cameron

Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.
Jules Feiffer

It is simply not consistent with either my character or my confidence in my God-given athletic ability to cheat in any way.
Justin Gatlin

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

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.
Epicurus

I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch
John Malkovich

England's main problem [in rugby] is they lack confidence. If you don't have confidence, you have no ambition, and it's very difficult to play without any ryhthm. [on 2006 performance]
Jonathan Davies

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Benedict Spinoza

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom: youth is the season of credulity.
William Pitt

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
Vincent T Lombardi

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
Andre Maurois

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

It's great that we're having all this success in the Champions League and we always have confidence in European games.
Dirk Kuyt

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was the timing in my life. I got a lot out of doing Rollergirl. I've gotten a lot from every director, but, psychologically, that role gave me a lot of confidence. [On her Boogie Nights role]
Heather Graham

There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
Tacitus

I have got a lot more confidence after winning against guys like Hewitt and Roddick
Andrew Murray

The decision destroyed my confidence, which has always been fragile. I need people to support and back me — and I was mentally broken by being left out by England.
Robin Smith

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
Marcus Garvey

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.
Chris Evert

Confidence is a very fragile thing.
Joe Montana

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.
Pope John Paul II

I love the confidence that makeup gives me
Tyra Banks

National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence.
Kofi Annan



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