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It is wonderful how some words ever were invented, for they express what does not exist—confidence is among the number; confidence is what no human being ever really had in another.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Trust not him that hath once broken faith.

William Shakespeare

The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.

François de La Rochefoucauld

My last confidence will be like my first.

Propertius

Your wisdom is consum'd in confidence.
Do not go forth to-day.

William Shakespeare Julius Cæsar (1599)

The mass is all that which sets no value on itself—good or ill—based on specific grounds, but which feels itself “just like everybody,” and nevertheless is not concerned about it; is, in fact, quite happy to feel itself as one with everybody else.

José Ortega y Gasset

People need self-respect, but self-respect must be earned -- it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned -- and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.

Charles Murray

He that wold not when he might,
He shall not when he wold-a.

Thomas Percy

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

Ayn Rand Anthem (1937)

Above all things, one should maintain his self-respect, and there is but one way to do that, and that is to live in accordance with your highest ideal.

Robert G. Ingersoll The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)

The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.

Ayn Rand

Perform anonymous service. Whenever we do good for others anonymously, our sense of intrinsic worth and self-respect increases. … Selfless service has always been one of the most powerful methods of influence.

Stephen Covey Principle-Centered Leadership (1992)

I have confidence in fools... self-confidence is what my friends call it.

Edgar Allan Poe

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

According to Freud (who was speaking from experience, since he was his mother’s darling), spoiled children have a confidence that stays with them all their lives.

Robert Greene The Art of Seduction (2001)

Man's need of self-esteem entails the need for a sense of control over reality – but no control is possible in a universe which, by one's own concession, contains the supernatural, the miraculous and the causeless, a universe in which one is at the mercy of ghosts and demons, in which one must deal, not with the unknown, but with the unknowable; no control is possible if man proposes, but a ghost disposes; no control is possible if the universe is a haunted house.

Nathaniel Branden Mental Health versus Mysticism and Self-Sacrifice (1963)

I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.

Benjamin Disraeli

The most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures: those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, but for whom to live is to be every moment what they already are, without imposing on themselves any effort towards perfection, mere buoys that float on the waves.

José Ortega y Gasset

Confidence is conqueror of men; victorious both over them and in them;
The iron will of one stout heart shall make a thousand quail:
A feeble dwarf, dauntlessly resolved, will turn the tide of battle,
And rally to a nobler strife the giants that had fled.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

There is a certain dignity of manner independent of fortune, a certain distinctive air which seems to mark us out for great things. It is a value we set upon ourselves without realizing it, and by means of this quality we claim other men’s deference as our due. This does more to set us above them than birth, honors, and merit itself.

François de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665)

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