“If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.”

“Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.”

“Self-confidence is key. You do not have to have the best shoes or a designer dress; you just have to be true to yourself.”

“Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.”

“Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside… It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.”

“Leadership tip: Sound confident even when you have no idea. Just do not make a habit of it. They will find you out.”

“How can you have confidence in a woman who will not risk entrusting her whole life to you, day and night?”

“Confidence depends upon the people in whom you are to confide. You would not confide free representative institutions to the Hottentots, for instance. Nor, going higher up the scale, would you confide them to the Oriental nations whom you are governing in India—although finer specimens of human character you will hardly find than some of those who belong to these nations, but who are simply not suited to the particular kind of confidence of which I am speaking. Well, I doubt whether you could confide representative institutions to the Russians with any great security. You have done it to the Greeks, but I do not know whether the result has been absolutely what you wish. And when you come to narrow it down you will find that this which is called self-government, but which is really government by the majority, works admirably well when it is confided to people who are of Teutonic race, but that it does not work so well when people of other races are called upon to join in it.”

“All through the day I'm so confident. That's why I'm such a good salesman, you know? I have confidence, and I look like I have confidence, and that gives other people confidence.”

“The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide.”