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

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem

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

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

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit

We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction

To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence