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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about hope, mind

Confidence has a lot to do with interviewing that, and timing.

Quote by Michael Parkinson about reliability

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.

Quote by William Pitt about reliability, heart

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.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about contentment, self-control, life

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

Quote by Bruce Barton about fear, hope, error, vision, progress, action, change

Being sexy is inside of you. It's a confidence thing and learning how to embrace your flaws. Everybody has their issues and things that they don't like about themselves.

Quote by Carmen Electra about sex, things, being, contentment

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.

Quote by Gerald R. Ford about honesty, public, end

Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about despair, quiet, common sense, action

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about faith, man

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about self-control

I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk-seeking profile that you need.

Quote by James Joyce about risk, courage, need, work, people, contentment

Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about technology, logic, bad

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.

Quote by Papa John Paul II about faith, fear, contentment

It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in...

Quote by Ivan Pavlov about animals, respect, time

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful, perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better...

Quote by Norman Vincent Peale about action, fear, contentment

Believe in yourself, have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Quote by Norman Vincent Peale about motivation, faith, ability, happiness, contentment

We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about interest, problems, self-control

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.

Quote by Robin Wright Penn about faith, contentment

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised.

Quote by Robin Wright Penn about mother, common sense, sense, independence

Honor bespeaks worth, confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction, cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

Quote by James Cash Penney about value, leadership, quality