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| Honesty, disinterestedness and good nature are indispensable to procure the esteem and confidence of those with whom we live, and on whose esteem our happiness depends. | | Thomas Jefferson | |
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| I am not covetous for gold; but if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive | | William Shakespeare | |
| I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general. | | Thomas Jefferson | |
| I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence | | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A man does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards, but when I was notified that I had won the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Mr de Klerk, I was deeply moved. The Nobel Peace P | | Nelson Mandela | |
| I have nothing but confidence in you, and very little of that | | Groucho Marx | |
| I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices | | Mark Twain | |
| I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up. | | Barbara Bush | |
| I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk-seeking profile that you need. | | James Joyce | |
| I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you. | | George Bernard Shaw | |
| If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. | | Abraham Lincoln | |
| If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. | | Abraham Lincoln | |
| In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence | | Samuel Johnson | |
| Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. | | Dale Carnegie | |
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| It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it | | Lillian Hellman | |
| It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes. (Psalms 118:9) | | Bible | |
| It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. | | Epicurus | |
| It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. | | Rene Descartes | |
