To have family behind you who love you more than words can say gives you so much confidence, because it allows you to go off and be who you want to be. – Cat Deeley
My kids are incredibly secure. More and more of their friends’ parents are divorcing, but my kids have absolute confidence that we’ll stay together forever. That goes a long, long way. – Ayelet Waldman
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. – Baruch Spinoza
I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman – not me, not Bill, nobody – more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America. – Barack Obama
The bottom line in my view is that America’s mothers and fathers deserve to have confidence in law enforcement’s ability to ensure that their children are being raised in the safest possible environment. – Bob Ney
I used to be so hard on myself. So hard on myself. Just my own worst critic to the nth degree. Absolutely undermining my confidence in every moment. Bad tape in my head all the time. – Bellamy Young
Of any guitarist, Jimmy Page was my biggest influence. I wanted to look, think and play like him. Zeppelin had a heavy influence on Rush during our early days. Page’s loose style of playing showed an immense confidence, and there are no rules to his playing. – Alex Lifeson
I believe veganism can be beneficial for the individual and the world, and of course the animal, but belief is like laying in the dark with someone and telling them you love them and hearing nothing back. So I’ve never had the confidence to get on a soapbox and tell someone else what to do. – Casey Affleck
Besides being a prime cause of poor economic growth, poor governance breeds corruption, which cripples investment, wastes resources, and diminishes confidence. – Ahmed Zewail
Long term, I have a lot of confidence in the United States. We have an excellent record in terms of innovation. We have great universities that are involved in technological change and progress. We have an entrepreneurial culture, much more than almost any other country. – Ben Bernanke
I really think that’s the key, part of the spiritual renewal that America needs to have, the notion that we really can have confidence in a better tomorrow. – Carol Moseley Braun
Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause. – Arthur Henderson
Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn’t have before from the experiences I’ve had. – Annie Lennox
Leaders thrive when they feel creatively empowered, when they trust the people around them, when their confidence is swelling. Leaders make mistakes when they lose that same confidence, when they’re fretting about their power base, when they’re reacting instead of acting. – Bill Simmons
Despite my confidence and self-belief, I’ve always wrestled with feelings of insecurity. To be honest, I think most people in show business are insecure. – Bobby Davro
A lot of people would say ‘sexy’ is about the body. But to me, ‘sexy’ is a woman with confidence. I admire women who have very little fear. – Allegra Versace
My friend made me a leather dress for the MTV awards. It gives you confidence, wearing something you love. – Cat Deeley
Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease. – Armstrong Williams
When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence. – Abby Wambach
The idea of confidence, of the emotions of the population, is an incredibly important one in economics. John Maynard Keynes called it ‘animal spirit.’ And if people are feeling generally good about the future, they’re more likely to spend money, to start new companies; companies are more likely to hire people, make investments. – Adam Davidson
I thought I’d be edgy and dye my hair red. And I dyed my hair, like, Jessica Rabbit red. It kind of allowed me to have this whole new confidence and this whole new swagger and this whole new sense of self. It kind of brought out the inner rock star in me. I had never dyed my hair like that, and no one forgot me after that. – Candice Accola
Banks will have to win the confidence of their customers through fair dealing, making good loans, and remaining financially healthy. – Ben Bernanke
When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I built my personality around it. So I subconsciously made myself become the funny one so that would be my label rather than the ginger one or the red-faced one. – Catherine Tate
I think swagger’s a confidence. It’s a confidence of you knowing that you work hard for your success. A lot of times, you can’t develop swagger if you haven’t worked hard to succeed. – Amar’e Stoudemire
We would like to have every middle and high school become a place where there will be lots of examples of youth competence and confidence. – Bill Drayton
