
“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”
The Life of Pope http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5101
Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)
History of the Thirty Years War - Volume II
The Thirty Years War
“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”
The Life of Pope http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5101
Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)
“I have great faith in fools — self-confidence my friends will call it.”
Marginalia http://www.easylit.com/poe/comtext/prose/margin.shtml (November 1844)
“Success has always been a great liar”
“I've always been very confident in my immaturity.”
Kelsier, Chapter 12
Source: Mistborn: The Final Empire (2006)
“Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.”
Attributed to a news conference (27 November 1967) the earliest occurrence of this statement yet located is in The Cross and the Flag, Vol. 27, (1968) by the Christian Nationalist Crusade
Appeal of June 18, Speech of June 18
Mornings in Florence, part III, section 49 (1875).
Trumpism is here to stay: America’s neo-fascist fever dream has only just begun (2016)
“We don’t need self-confidence we need God-confidence”