41 Metaphors for confidence

His confidence and the sensitiveness of his faith in and toward God become almost an equal confidence and an equal sensitiveness toward his fellow believers.

Self-confidence is the first requisite for success.

" "Your confidence is a sacred deposit," answered he.

Confidence given for the asking, however readily, is but the little silver coin of friendship; the gold is confidence unasked.

If confidence in his position is (as it is) a first essential in the leader of a party, Dr. Pusey had it."

For not only was France to be supplied with provisions, but the confidence in her ultimate triumph was at all costs to be kept up in the native mind.

"Confidence!" was the calm reply.

Sir BENJAMIN BROWNE, whose death all those interested in the settlement of the Capital-Labour quarrel must deplore, as for all his uncompromising individualism he brought to it a rare breadth of view, says much that is of real value, but does not refrain from appealing to the fact that the mutual confidence of man and officer in battle is a proof of the possibility of a similar confidence in the workshop.

She took her cousin affectionately by the hand, and said "Grace, this confidence is the highest compliment you can pay me, and it merits a return.

Come, Gentlemen, let's now goe take our rest: Prowd confidence is but a foole at best.

Our confidence in the triumphant and glorious issue of the present struggle remains firm.

My fears had no place in Max's heart, and his self-confidence was to me a harbinger of good fortune.

Self-confidence is a good thing in its place, but self-assurance is a quality not nearly so attractive.

"Confidence is the life of business; you must trust a man.

Confidence in personal declarations, then, is the only indemnity for the right, which the nation has not exercised but has not lost, of itself granting and assessing the twentieths.

The overweening confidence in themselves, which was so great as to permit them to believe that without any organization or discipline they were more than a match for the Turkish army, has always been their fatal weakness.

Confidence is the common consequence of success.

Then, too, the arrogant self-confidence of his captors was an inestimable aid.

The lesson of the war of 1812 should be learned by Englishmen of the present day, when a long naval peace has generated a confidence in numerical superiority, in the mere possession of heavier matériel, and in the merits of a rigidly uniform system of training, which confidence, as experience has shown, is too often the forerunner of misfortune.

Calvert told him frankly as much of the story as he intended to reveal to anyone, and this confidence became another bond of friendship between them.

Confidence is not always the growth of time.

Confidence is the very soul of prosperity; of the existence of this confidence in this Island, the immense operations in real estate, since the first of August, are abundant proof.

Self-confidence is a valuable possession, but beware of being too sure of yourself.

His confidence in his own powers was the just result of self-knowledge and self-respect.

Nothing perhaps, is so invaluable to a young man on entering life as the friendship of a pure-minded and highly-cultivated woman who, removed too far above him to be regarded with passion, is yet beautiful enough to engage his admiration; whose good opinion becomes the measure of his own self-respect; and whose confidence is a sacred trust only to be parted from with loss of life or honor.

41 Metaphors for  confidence