These new young politicians have given us the confidence to start dreaming again to believe there is a better politics, and a better future for Italy in general. – Brunello Cucinelli
Since 1890, the Tour d’Argent’s basic recipe hasn’t changed. If you find yourself at the restaurant tomorrow, you will eat duck in the confidence that it was what someone ate a hundred years ago. You will eat it in the expectation that someone else will be served it a hundred years from now. – Bill Buford
I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us. – Bennie Thompson
What’s cool about the beatboxing is I was so afraid to sing in front of my peers, my parents, anybody. I just wouldn’t do it. So in sixth grade, I would turn to beatboxing because it made me feel better. Like, I can beatbox ‘Drop It Like It’s Hot.’ Doing that a bunch of times eventually gave me the confidence to sing in front of people. – Charlie Puth
Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence. – Benjamin Spock
The people have given me their support; they have given me their trust and confidence. My colleagues have suffered a lot in order to give me support. I do not look upon my life as a sacrifice at all. – Aung San Suu Kyi
I think my confidence stems from my honesty. I’m brutally honest – about everything and even myself. I tell it as I think it. I’m not politically correct. I’m definitely not diplomatic. I get bashed up for what I say, but I don’t know any other way. – Alia Bhatt
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. – Abraham Lincoln
I did not grow up thinking that I wanted to be an engineer. I had read some articles about girls becoming increasingly scientifically illiterate and that girls lacked confidence in their capabilities when it came to quantitative skills. And I just thought that was kind of wrong. – Aileen Lee
I didn’t like playing with dolls; I didn’t like getting dressed up. A lot of my friends and people I went to school with were into fashion and their clothes, so I lacked a bit of self-belief and confidence… I wasn’t really comfortable. – Carli Lloyd
What I see in the corporate sector is very clearly an issue of a major shortfall in the issue of, what some people call confidence, but whatever you want to call it. Clearly people are looking out in the very distant future and they are saying that it is too complex. – Alan Greenspan
Yet you should practice the greatest possible love and confidence in treating with Him. – Alphonsus Liguori
Any person I idolise, or I really admire their work, I want to beat them… For me, going through my years, I made sure to idolise myself… So when you’re in a race, you have to make sure that you think you are the favourite to win. You have to have that confidence. – Alia Atkinson
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. – Arthur Helps
The ultimate proof of confidence for a small-business owner is, are they hiring employees? – Brad D. Smith
Rugby gave me a confidence. I was quite shy and relatively timid, but it gave me the confidence to be a little bit more out-going and back myself a bit more. – Brian O’Driscoll
We live in a time of conflict – external and internal – when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger. – Charlie Dent
No one can duplicate the confidence that RSA offers after 20 years of cryptanalytic review. – Bruce Schneier
There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria. – Binyavanga Wainaina
When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don’t get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it’s life. – Carine Roitfeld
Community service has taught me all kinds of skills and increased my confidence. You go out there and think on your feet, work with others and create something from nothing. That’s what life’s all about. – Andrew Shue
If you’re a coach, you’ve got to have a lot of confidence in what you’re doing. Your egos are so large that you know it all anyway if you’re a coach. – Bud Grant
I don’t lack confidence. I don’t sweat. I don’t want to get too Zen on you, but I have to run my own race. – Brad Grey
Even if consumer confidence hit rock bottom, that most likely would not be enough, by itself, to cause a depression. – Charles Duhigg
I tend to hide behind my status of being a diva; it’s easy for me to embrace that part of me and seek confidence by being a bit outrageous at times. – Alex Newell
In 2008, when the global financial crisis struck, it was a bad year for a lot of developing countries, and it manifested itself in consumer confidence. – Adi Godrej