#confidence

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#commence #confidence #cowardice #disarm #distrust

I like the feeling that I'm giving young women self-confidence. It sounds so cliched, but it can be very moving. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#feeling #giving #i #like #moving

When you win, you don't get carried away. But if you go step by step, with confidence, you can go far. ↗

— Diego Maradona

#carried #confidence #far #get #go

Right now I have more confidence in myself. I grew up. ↗

— Amelie Mauresmo

#grew #i #more #myself #now

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#any #everyone #lacks #more #one thing

The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let's extend the tax - the existing tax cuts. And then let's give some more tax breaks to small businesses and large. And then maybe the American people will have some confidence. ↗

— John McCain

#american people #breaks #businesses #certainty #confidence

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public. ↗

— George McGovern

#capacity #confidence #faith #intellectual #kind

Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It's so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#challenge #confidence #down #dumb #feeling

I was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#friends #gave #i #insecure #kid

My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics. ↗

— David Miliband

#battle #battles #bigger #bottom-up #confidence