Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs 25:19.

Inreturning and rest shall ye be saved; inquietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 30:15.

We shall not flag or fail.We shall go on to the end.We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island whatever the cost may be.We shall fight on the beaches, weshall fight onthelanding grounds, weshall fight inthe fields and in thestreets, we shall fight inthehills.We shall never surrender.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
  Speech in the House of Commons,4  Jun, after the Dunkirk evacuation.

Show your confidence. Show you're not afraid.Go to restaurants.Go shopping.

-Giuliani, Rudy (RudolphWilliam)
Encouraging the people of NewYork to resume their normal lives after the terrorist attack of11Sep. Press conference, 12 Sep.

We can now look forward with something like confidence to the time when war between civilised nations will be considered as antiquated as a duel.

-Gooch, George Peabody
History of Our Time1855^1911.

The suaveness isn't born of confidence; it's born of fright.

-Hyde-White,Wilfred
Quoted in his obituary, in the San Francisco Chronicle,7 May1991.

No leader deserves the unconditional confidence of his people.

-Webster, Margaret
  Part of a statement appearing on DemocracyWall under the pseudonym'Voice ofToday'. Quoted in Uli Franz Deng Xiaoping (1988).

All fiction is for me a kind of magic and trickeryöa confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

-Wilson, SirAngus FrankJohnstone
  In The Paris Review, no.17.