“Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.”
Catherine the Great (1729–1796) Empress of Russia
As quoted in And I Quote : The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker (1992) by Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, and Andrew Frothingham, p. 278
“A writer without confidence is like a metaphor without something to compare itself to.”
Neil Simon (1927–2018) playwright, writer, academic
Rewrites (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996) p. 105
Robert Silverberg book The Man in the Maze
Source: The Man in the Maze (1969), Chapter 6, section 8 (p. 89)
“Confidence is the only bond of friendship.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 34
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Hermann Cohen (1842–1918) German philosopher
Source: Reason and Hope: Selections from the Jewish Writings of Hermann Cohen (1971), p. 5
“We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Letter to William Carmichael and William Short (1793)
1790s
André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Friendship
“Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
