Pastoral Resources

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised.

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back.

And so we try to address those concerns in every way possible, recognizing, again, in the final analysis, everybody on that flight wants to be assured with the highest level of confidence that everybody else on that flight has been properly screened, and including me and you and everybody.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.

I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.

I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.

To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

Always the eternal optimist, President Reagan instilled confidence and optimism at a time both were in short supply in our country.

I have confidence in people's basic common sense.

When you really believe in God, it gives you a courage, a confidence that enables you to meet the things coming.

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.

I had gained so much confidence through my college achievements that I wanted to tackle the world.