Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. – Ann Landers
It’s easy to say young people should believe in themselves, but the number one thing is recognizing that it’s a journey, that you have to build confidence in yourself. – Andrew Shue
That’s the great thing about university: you’ve got people around you who are taking a risk and trying things out themselves. It gives you the confidence to try and take it to the next step, which was drama school. – Adam Rayner
What I worry about is that people are losing confidence, losing energy, losing enthusiasm, and there’s a real opportunity to get them into work. – Boris Johnson
The only thing that I can do is know that I have great confidence in raising children and being a great mother. – Cheryl Tiegs
I ski every three years or so. I don’t have the ingrained confidence that others do, but I’ll happily toddle about a green or blue run. – Cherie Lunghi
Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied. – Boris Trajkovski
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed. – Baltasar Gracian
I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself, and that is so important. And not just about your body, but so many ways of confidence. You’re constantly learning how to be confident, aren’t you? – Beth Ditto
I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind. – Barry Zito
I am strong-willed, which can be annoying sometimes. And from that I think people assume I have confidence and Hollywood glamour and all that stuff, when actually, in my personal life, sometimes I’m just a goofball. – Catherine Zeta-Jones
When I receive letters from girls that say, ‘You give me confidence,’ I think, ‘Wow, this is amazing.’ That’s my goal: to let people know it’s truly what’s on the inside that counts. – Amber Riley
Queen Paola and I will never forget the ties that have grown between the people and us during the course of the years. Thank you for your confidence, tokens of sympathy and support, sometimes even with a little criticism. We always loved you. – Albert II of Belgium
I think people look great in black. I love that what stands out is the person, especially. Black just conveys a kind of drama, even if it can be quiet drama. It does lend to the wearer a sense of confidence. – Andre Leon Talley
Poverty diminishes confidence. So if someone offers you a grain store, even if you really need a plough, you take what is offered to you. – Ann Cotton
Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends. – Alphonsus Liguori
And I love kick boxing. It’s a lot of fun. It gives you a lot of confidence when you can kick somebody in the head. – Alicia Keys
To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It’s like, ‘Oh, if I’m not good enough for that, I’m not good enough for anything.’ – Cam Gigandet
The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick. – Angela Carter
Experts said public companies worry about the loss of customer confidence and the legal liability to shareholders or security vendors when they report flaws. – Barton Gellman
I presumed the president was being truthful until a series of events undercut that confidence. – Bob Graham
When I was child, I never spoke. Teacher used to write remarks on my note book. My mom sent me to a trainer. I started talking, and it gave me confidence. – Boman Irani
I don’t read reviews if I know in advance they’re negative, because I can’t have my confidence undermined when I’m writing. – Christopher Moore
Wherever I’ve been, and I’ve been to over 20, maybe 25, countries in Africa, I’ve noticed how their backbone is broken. They don’t have any confidence in themselves. They always think a white man will solve their problems from outside for them. – Bunker Roy
I become a better actor after I step on a stage in front of, like, 500 people when it’s just me, a microphone and my guitar. You don’t get as nervous walking into a room in front of 3 or 4 people and to do a scene or to walk on a set. You gain confidence. – Bryan Greenberg
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for. – Adlai E. Stevenson
The finished product is often of less importance than the skills and confidence gained through the process and the way in which the community is strengthened through people in it work and are brought together. – Ben Edwards