Confidence
The act of confiding, trusting, or putting faith in; trust; reliance; belief; -- formerly followed by of, now commonly by in.
That in which faith is put or reliance had.
The state of mind characterized by one's reliance on himself, or his circumstances; a feeling of self-sufficiency; such assurance as leads to a feeling of security; self-reliance; -- often with self prefixed.
Private conversation; (pl.) secrets shared; as, there were confidences between them.
Trustful; without fear or suspicion; frank; unreserved.
Having self-reliance; bold; undaunted.
Having an excess of assurance; bold to a fault; dogmatical; impudent; presumptuous.
Giving occasion for confidence.
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Confidence Quotations
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
Abraham Lincoln
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
Mark Twain
All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.
Mark Twain
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao Tzu
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
Aristotle
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
Vince Lombardi
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Confidence Translations
confidence in Afrikaans is vertroue
confidence in Danish is tillid
confidence in Dutch is fiducie, vertrouwen, geloof
confidence in French is confidence, confiance, foi
confidence in German is Zuversicht, vertrauen, vertrauen
confidence in Italian is fiducia, confidenza
confidence in Latin is fides, fiducia
confidence in Spanish is confianza
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