I worry about how accessible cosmetic surgery has become. Of course, if it has genuinely helped people, and their confidence has grown as a result; who am I to form an opinion? – Erin O’Connor
Petruchio is a very clever guy and clearly has a lot of bravado and confidence. My feeling is that he’s broke at the beginning of the play and needs a dowry to save face back home. – David Denman
I’m now wearing suits on stage, so I’ve kinda stepped up my game as far as image. Which I have to admit is kind of a pain the butt, but it’s fun. It gives you a certain amount of confidence to walk on stage and look nice, but I can’t say that I’m totally buying into the whole image factor. – Christopher Cross
I never thought I’d go on a show like ‘The X Factor,’ simply because I didn’t have enough confidence to do something like standing on a stage to have opinions thrown at me. – Ella Henderson
We need to have a pro-growth policy put in place that offers people hope and offers the opportunity for businesses to expand and for them to have confidence in what the world is going to look like for the next two or three or four years with respect to economic policy. – Dick Cheney
Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government. – George Will
Investor confidence in Adani is fairly high, and most of our investors are long-term investors. – Gautam Adani
In the NBA, you’re taking a bunch of different talents, and you’re managing them. You have to give them a system; you have to give them a belief. That’s why coaches like Phil Jackson and Gregg Popovich are so great: because they gave the team confidence in the system and in their ability to execute night in and night out. – David Robinson
The Egyptians have grown in confidence, they’ve tasted freedom, and there’s no way back. – Mohamed ElBaradei
Ronald Reagan’s vision of smaller government, less taxes, and a strong national defense has led to a prosperous America. As president, he rebuilt our military and reinvigorated our confidence in ourselves. – David Vitter
I had so much fun developing and launching my first fragrance with Avon, so for my second fragrance, I really wanted to add a little more edge. Outspoken Intense is a provocative blend of sexy confidence and daring femininity that captures the thrill and excitement of being centre stage. – Fergie
Christianity is entitled to the tribute of respect. I do not of course mean that all individuals, nominally Christian, deserve trust, confidence, or even respect, for the contrary is too often the case. Too often, men hold religion as they do property – in their wives’ names. – David Josiah Brewer
Recovery measures work better when they raise confidence – as Franklin D. Roosevelt understood. His fireside chats, and his inaugural address proclaiming he would fight the Great Depression with the same resolve he would muster against a foreign foe, were aimed at reassuring Americans. – Christina Romer
Oddly, because she has that confidence, the people around her like her more. She becomes more a part of the Reaper family, and she also is able to get along with people more outside of their circle as well. – Ellen Muth
If we will maintain our hope and confidence in the genius of our people, they will work out this problem, and their ability and industry will bring us back to normal conditions. – Frank B. Kellogg
I feel strongly that degrees are really valuable to people, and having MOOCs allow for credit down the line will increase the number of students with the confidence and wherewithal to complete degrees. – Daphne Koller
I have never had feeling in my toes. My uncle, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, once told me in confidence he had the same syndrome, leading me to believe it is genetic. – Ethan Coen
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights. – Friedrich Nietzsche
This – the leadership of the mayor is crucial, because it is to the mayor that people will look to provide the vision, the energy, and the sense of confidence in the rebuilding and the recovery. – Marc Morial
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning. – Francis Atterbury
Speaking from experience, because I have three daughters, I think it’s always important to give your daughter the confidence that she needs so that she won’t look elsewhere for approval and feeling love and acceptance. – David Charvet
I remember when I was a dancer and I had to do this performance and I was really nervous about it, and I happened at that moment to go see ‘Flashdance.’ I mean, it’s silly, but I walked out of that movie going ‘what a feeling!’ I walked out with confidence. – Melissa Rosenberg
The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people. – Paulo Freire
I think confidence is a big part of it. Also luck – the ball has got to fall for you in the right time and the right place. – Dele Alli
At times of distress, we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me was to keep faith and deep confidence in the potential of the Greek people; nurture the belief that they can do things. – George Papandreou
To me, the real opinion polls are the tangible facts: the growing creation of jobs, the number of planning permissions, the number of commercial vans being sold – the signs that the Irish people are regaining confidence. – Enda Kenny
Find your self-respect now. Don’t dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It’s so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard. – Danica McKellar