#confide

Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is not the novel I had in my mind. I think a lot of writers must negotiate this, and if they don't admit it, they're not being honest. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#always #being #being honest #confidence #even

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained. ↗

— Marie Curie

#any #attained #believe #confidence #easy

I look back at my twenties and see that I was much less confident. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#confident #i #less #look #much

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#confidence #defeated #even #life #race

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#best #confidence #how #little #matter

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth. ↗

— Hesiod

#confidence #either #false #greatly #harms

The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#faith #god #ground #knowledge #ultimate

In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to get results. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#change #confidence #crises #get #international

Will you, my countrymen, the descendants of these men, warmed by their blood, inheriting their language, and having the principles for which they struggled confided to your care, allow them to be violated in your hands? ↗

— Joseph Howe

#blood #care #confided #countrymen #descendants

The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake. ↗

— Basil Hume

#confidence #easter #gift #god #goodness