Confidence is nowhere safe. [ Virgil ]
Society is built upon trust. [ South ]
Confidence awakens confidence. [ Friedrich August II. von Sachsen ]
Be not confident and affirmative. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Be as just and gracious unto me.
As I am confident and kind to thee. [ William Shakespeare ]
Security is mortal's chiefest enemy. [ William Shakespeare ]
Self-trust is the essence of heroism. [ Emerson ]
Towering in confidence of twenty-one. [ Samuel Johnson ]
You have no need to borrow confidence. [ Proverb ]
Your wisdom is consum'd in confidence.
Do not go forth today. [ William Shakespeare ]
The fullest confidence; implicit faith.
For they can conquer who believe they can. [ Dryden ]
Trust not him that hath once broken faith. [ William Shakespeare ]
Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety. [ Haliburton ]
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee. [ Miss L. E. Landon ]
He is safe who admits no one to his confidence. [ Rochefoucauld ]
He who has lost confidence can lose nothing more. [ Boiste ]
Any confidence is dangerous that is not complete. [ La Bruyere ]
Confidence goes farther in company than good sense. [ Proverb ]
Fields are won by those who believe in the winning. [ T. W. Higginson ]
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows. [ Thomas Fuller ]
Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom. [ William Pitt ]
Let the degree of egotism be the measure of confidence. [ Lavater ]
Wise men have but few confidants and cunning ones none. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor. [ Milton ]
Wit sometimes helps us to play the fool with more confidence. [ Proverb ]
Three addresses always inspire confidence - even in tradesmen. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
Men are slow to repose confidence in undertakings of magnitude. [ Ovid ]
Superstition is but the fear of belief; religion is the confidence. [ Lady Blessington ]
He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted. [ Auerbach ]
Confidence in another man's virtue is no slight evidence of a man's own. [ Montaigne ]
Trust him with little who, without proofs, trusts you with everything, or,
When he has proved you, with nothing. [ Lavater ]
Sell your confidence at a high price, if at all; to be strong, keep your own counsel. [ Dumas, Pere ]
Where confidence is wanting, the most beautiful flower in the garland of love is missing. [ Goethe ]
Envy is so shameful and cowardly a passion, that nobody ever had the confidence to own it. [ Proverb ]
The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence. [ Goethe ]
The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity. [ Joubert ]
Affliction is a school of virtue: it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning. [ Atterbury ]
From a confidence to an indiscretion, there is only the distance between the ear and the tongue. [ Pichot ]
The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect. [ Emerson ]
The only confidence that one can repose in the most discreet woman is the confidence of her beauty. [ Lemesles ]
Joy is the ray of sunshine that brightens and opens those two beautiful flowers, Confidence and Hope. [ E. Souvestre ]
The mistakes of woman result almost always from her faith in the good, and her confidence in the truth. [ Balzac ]
Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments. [ Whipple ]
Trust him little who praises all, him less who censures all, and him least who is indifferent about all. [ Lavater ]
Esteem cannot be where there is no confidence, and there can be no confidence where there is no respect. [ Henry Giles ]
Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man. [ Tillotson ]
Human reason has so little confidence in itself that it always looks for a precedent to justify its decrees. [ De Finod ]
The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes. [ Joseph Roux ]
A man's happiness consists infinitely more in admiration of the faculties of others than in confidence in his own. [ John Ruskin ]
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself. [ Cicero ]
A woman who plays with the love of a loyal man is a curse; she may close his heart forever against all confidence in her sex.
Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence - as a compliment from God. [ Beecher ]
Friendship and love require the deepest and most entire confidence, but souls of a high character demand not communications of a familiar nature. [ Humboldt ]
Confidence, as opposed to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery. [ Jeremy Collier ]
Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence. [ Madame Swetchine ]
There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot be gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect. [ Zimmermann ]
We may have the confidence of another without possessing his heart. If his heart be ours, there is no need of revelation or of confidence, - all is open to us. [ Du Coeur ]
In your friendship and in your enmities let your confidence and your hostilities have certain bounds; make not the former dangerous, nor the latter irreconcilable. [ Chesterfield ]
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him. [ Emerson ]
He who does not respect confidence, will never find happiness in his path. The belief in virtue vanishes from his heart, the source of nobler actions becomes extinct in him. [ Auffenberg ]
Sincerity is an openness of heart; it is found in a very few people, and that which we see. commonly is not it, but a subtle dissimulation, to gain the confidence of others. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Exaggeration, as to rhetoric, is using a vast force to lift a feather;
as to morals and character, it is using falsehood to lift one's self out of the confidence of his fellow-men. [ Hugo Amot ]
There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with ourselves. [ Joubert ]
To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence: but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride. [ Confucius ]
Powerful attachment will give a man spirit and confidence which he could by no means call up or command of himself; and in this mood he can do wonders which would not be possible to him without it. [ Matthew Arnold ]
There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself. [ Hazlitt ]
The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself. [ Colton ]
Any man shall speak the better when he knows what others have said, and sometimes the consciousness of his inward knowledge gives a confidence to his outward behavior, which of all other is the best thing to grace a man in his carriage. [ Feltham ]
Are we capable of so intimate and cordial a coalition of friendship as, that one man may pour out his bosom - his very inmost soul, with unreserved confidence to another, without hazard of losing part of that respect which man deserves from man. [ A. Burn ]
The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labours to find within itself the means of happiness, learns to rely with confidence on its own exertions, and gains with greater certainty the power of being happy. [ Zimmermann ]
To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to part with applause; or great quickness of discernment, with confidence in our own judgments; or great sincerity and love of truth, getting the better of our self-love. [ Hazlitt ]
Gallantry to women (the sure road to their favor) is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute towards it. The slightest indifference with regard to them, or distrust of yourself is equally fatal. [ Hazlitt ]
The man who will share his purse with you in the days of misfortune and distress, and like the good Samaritan, be surety for your support to the landlord, you may admit to your confidence, incorporate into the very core of your heart, and call him friend; misfortunes cannot shake him from you; a prison will not conceal you from his sight. [ J. Bartlett ]
A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation, sober counsels and ingenuous actions, open deportment and sweet carriage, sincere principles and unprejudicate understanding, love of God and selfdenial, peace and confidence, holy prayers and spiritual comfort, and a pleasure of spirit infinitely greater than the sottish pleasure of unchastity. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Consistent characters are those which in social intercourse are easy, sure, and gentle. We do not clash with them, and they are never wanting nor contradictory to themselves; their stability incites confidence, their frankness induces self-surrendering openness. We feel at ease with them, we are not offended at their superiority, doubtless we admire them less, but we also hardly dream of feeling envious of them, and they seem almost to disdain malignity by the peaceful influence of their presence. [ Degerando ]
The man who makes a success of an important venture never waits for the crowd. He strikes out for himself. It takes nerve, it takes a great lot of grit; but the man that succeeds has both. Anyone can fail. The public admires the man who has enough confidence in himself to take a chance. These chances are the main things after all. The man who tries to succeed must expect to be criticised. Nothing important was ever done but the greater number consulted previously doubted the possibility. Success is the accomplishment of that which most people think can't be done. [ C. V. White ]