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| Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense. | | Tennessee Williams | |
| Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that makes it. | | Benjamin Franklin | |
| One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man. | | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. | | Samuel Johnson | |
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| The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter | | John Fitzgerald Kennedy | |
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| The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. | | Colin Powell | |
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| There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing | | Mark Twain | |
| There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige (defining it as respect or es | | Abraham Maslow | |
| Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences. | | Thornton Wilder | |
| 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. | | Albert Einstein | |
| To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.' | | Ayn Rand | |
| Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom. (Mica 7:5) | | Bible | |
| 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. | | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
| We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need. | | Epicurus | |
