“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
The Life of Pope http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5101 <br class="br">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.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
The Life of Pope http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5101 <br class="br">Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)
Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
“I have great faith in fools — self-confidence my friends will call it.”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
Marginalia http://www.easylit.com/poe/comtext/prose/margin.shtml (November 1844)
“Success has always been a great liar”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“I've always been very confident in my immaturity.”
Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer
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.”
Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970) eighteenth President of the French Republic
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
John Ruskin (1819–1900) English writer and art critic
Mornings in Florence, part III, section 49 (1875).
John Feffer (1963) American foreign policy writer
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”
Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker