#confide

I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for an issue like this. But I can't say that's the norm. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#confidential #defend #even #go #gone

I am confident that I can serve my country without being involved as the president of the country now. ↗

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

#being #confident #country #i #i am

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. ↗

— Mary Kay Ash

#cease #cease to exist #confidence #cornerstone #exist

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. ↗

— Aristotle

#courage #fear #mean #regard

The American woman is more stylish than any other in the world. She understands the power of good style and has the confidence to feel comfortable. ↗

— Max Azria

#american woman #any #comfortable #confidence #feel

The train we had so confidently boarded had been speeding at almost 100 miles an hour and it had derailed. Someone, I can't remember who, showed me a newspaper photograph of the carriage we had been sitting in tilted on its side on a station platform next to a large notice that said Welcome to Potters Bar. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#bar #been #carriage #confidently #had

Suddenly I register that St. Clair is shorter than Josh. Much shorter. It’s odd I didn’t notice earlier, but he doesn’t carry himself like a short guy. Most are shy or defensive, or some messed-up combination of the two, but St. Clair is confident and friendly and— ↗

— Stephanie Perkins

#self-confidence #short #self-confidence

Criticism is just someone else’s opinion. Even people who are experts in their fields are sometimes wrong. It is up to you to choose whether to believe some of it, none of it, or all of it. What you think is what counts. ↗

— Rodolfo Costa

#fear-of-failure #opinion #self-confidence #self-doubt #self-confidence

But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#conformity #declaration-of-independence #hope #individuality #non-conformity

To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive. ↗

— Abraham Verghese

#self-confidence #seduction