Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.
Yet you should practice the greatest possible love and confidence in treating with Him.
If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love.
I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.
Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.
When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.
Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.
I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
I thought we were aggressive across the board defensively, and you could just see it grow. As the game went along, you could see the confidence grow. It showed in the fourth quarter.
I think it was always there and it was maybe a matter of bringing it out. It was harder than I thought it would be and I had to try harder. I had to regain my confidence, maybe the most important thing. I have learned a lot to relax. I know what I can do now, and I do it.
Confidence-building is not something that can go on forever. If it goes on forever then it becomes counterproductive.
At some point he seemed to lose all confidence trying to break down the Berlin Wall. He was still fighting as only Kasparov can, but I could see it in his eyes that he knew he wasn't going to win one of these games.