Pastoral Resources

Confidence-building is not something that can go on forever. If it goes on forever then it becomes counterproductive.

I think it was always there and it was maybe a matter of bringing it out. It was harder than I thought it would be and I had to try harder. I had to regain my confidence, maybe the most important thing. I have learned a lot to relax. I know what I can do now, and I do it.

I thought we were aggressive across the board defensively, and you could just see it grow. As the game went along, you could see the confidence grow. It showed in the fourth quarter.

Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.

Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.

If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love.

Yet you should practice the greatest possible love and confidence in treating with Him.

Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.

With such thoughts in your mind, now that you have resolved to love Him and please Him with all your strength, your only fear should be to fear God too much and to place too little confidence in Him.

Not only is there no need of an intermediary through whom He would want you to speak to Him, but He finds His delight in having you treat with Him personally and in all confidence.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

I think, head up and shoulders back. Not only does it make you look taller and thinner but it gives you confidence and boosts your self-esteem.