We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity.
A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself
It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience.
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
A noble person confers no such gift as his whole confidence: none so exalts the giver and the receiver; it produces the truest gratitude. Perhaps it is only essential to friendship that some vital trust should have been reposed by the one in the other. I feel addressed and probed even to the remotest parts of my being when one nobly shows, even in trivial things, an implicit faith in me. . . . A threat or a curse may be forgotten, but this mild trust translates me.
I love to have confidence, but that confidence doesn't come from myself. It comes from God, and that's what I wanted America to see.
I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
I also feel stronger than I ever have. I have confidence in my beliefs, my decisions and myself.
I actually had another motivation for letting Steven [Sebring] film us. After I'd been out of the public eye for 16 years, lost my friends and lost my husband, some of my confidence had been undermined. Steven made the process of filming fun; I could pretend that we were in something like Don't Look Back.
Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.
It is all about confidence: 90% mental and 10% physical, that is what basketball is. I live by that and it seems to be working.
The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions.
A writer like me must have an utter confidence, an utter faith in his star. It's an almost mystical feeling, a feeling of nothing-can-happen-to me, nothing-can-touch-me. . . . I once had it. But through a series of blows, many of them my own fault, something happened to that sense of immunity and I lost my grip.
I know who I am, I know what I believe, that's all I need to know. From there, you do what you need to do.
I think the biggest challenge I have faced is that I have struggled most of my life with often crippling depression which has sometimes if not keeping me off stage kept me from writing regularly and with any kind of confidence.
There are so many people that don't spend enough time loving themselves and there are so many people that go through so many difficulties. I wanted to make a brand Treasures Within where people can actually stand up and talk - I've given a platform to other people to voice their opinions. With my brand, I go to different places like youth centres and colleges to promote body confidence. I'm an anti-bullying activist, so I talk about that as well and I like to hold events like this where I'm able to promote such amazing things.
Confidence is believing in your own ability, knowing what you have to do to win. My confidence was developed through preparation.
There's no such thing as lack of confidence. You either have it or you don't.
Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something. . . hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.
You must welcome tests because it gives you confidence and it ensures promotion.