~ There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence ~
~ Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences. ~
~ Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process. ~
~ Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation ~
~ Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do. ~
~ Confidence is the illusion born of accidental success. ~
~ Though confidence is very fine, and makes the future sunny; I want no confidence for mine, I'd rather have the money ~
~ The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also ~
~ Honesty, disinterestedness and good nature are indispensable to procure the esteem and confidence of those with whom we live, and on whose esteem our happiness depends. ~
~ It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes. ~
~ Confidence is a very fragile thing. ~
~ Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed ~