I believe the recipe for happiness to be just enough money to pay the monthly bills you acquire, a little surplus to give you confidence.
Confidence Quotes
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.
In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true interest.
She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not care to be herself.
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.
Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. (Hebrews 10:35-36)
In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.
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.
