Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain.
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidence could be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence -- and then success is sure.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.