Confidence

These players, a lot of other people didn't believe in them, but they believe in themselves. And that is all that matters.
~ Bill Belichick, The Associated Press (3 February 2002). Belichick will not be changed

Sometimes I suffer from delusions of adequacy.
~ William D. Blake

Confidence is the foundation for all business relations. The degree of confidence a man has in others, and the degree of confidence others have in him, determines a man's standing in the commercial and industrial world.
~ William J.H. Boetcker

Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence people have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.
~ W. Bourke Cockran

A moral, sensible, and well-bred man
Will not affront me, -- and no other can.
~ William Cowper, from Poems by William Cowper of the Inner Temple, Esq. (1782). Conversation

[A]s is our confidence, so is our capacity.
~ William Hazlitt, Characteristics: in the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims (1823).

I have more confidence in the dead than the living.
~ William Hazlitt, from The Plain Speaker (1826). On Reading Old Books (1821)

The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool.
~ William McFee, Casuals of the Sea (1916).

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.
~ Joe "Willie" Namath

We should all try and give confidence to others, 'cos then good things can happen. Confidence is what puts people in a position to excel.
~ William Orbit, Saturday Times (Interview; 4 December 1999). Mixed-up kid

I cannot give them my confidence; pardon me, gentlemen, confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom: youth is the season of credulity.
~ William Pitt (Earl of Chatham), Speech, House of Commons (14 January 1766).

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
~ Wilma Rudolph, (6 September 1960).

Once you've been tried and tested, there's a great confidence you get from being able to handle the heat. There are lot of things very good right here.
~ William "Buck" Showalter, The Associated Press (12 October 2002). Rangers Hire Showalter As Manager

My confidence got beat up pretty badly, and you can't lead without confidence. You almost have to be overconfident to lead, but when my body broke down, the rest of me did, too . . .
~ Ricky Williams, ESPN The Magazine (16 September 2002). Redemption Song

This is my time. A door has swung open. You haven't seen the best of me yet.
~ Ricky Williams, ESPN The Magazine (16 September 2002). Redemption Song

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
~ Thomas Lanier ("Tennessee") Williams, I Am Widely Regarded as the Ghost of a Writer (8 May 1977)

I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.
~ Bruce Willis

That's an important lesson; if you believe in what you're doing, don't let other people stop you.
~ Brian Wilson, in Inside Tracks: A First-Hand History of Popular Music from the World's Greatest Record Producers and Engineers (1999). Foreward

A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays
And confident to-morrows.
~ William Wordsworth, The Excursion (1814). Book VII: The Churchyard among the Mountains (continued)