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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Confidence |
| Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honourable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself. Cicero—Rhetorical Invention. | 1 |
| I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity. Benj. Disraeli—Speech. Nov. 9, 1867. | 2 |
| La confiance que l’on a en soi fait naître la plus grande partie de celle que l’on a aux autres. The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others. La Rochefoucauld—Premier Supplément. 49. | 3 |
| He that wold not when he might, He shall not when he wold-a. Thos. Percy—Reliques. The Baffled Knight. St. 14. | 4 |
| Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom. William Pitt (Earl of Chatham)—Speech. Jan. 14, 1766. | 5 |
| Ultima talis erit quæ mea prima fides. My last confidence will be like my first. Propertius—Elegiæ. II. 20. 34. | 6 |
| Your wisdom is consum’d in confidence. Do not go forth to-day. Julius Cæsar. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 49. | 7 |
| I would have some confidence with you that decerns you nearly. Much Ado About Nothing. Act III. Sc. 5. L. 3. | 8 |
| Confidence is conqueror of men; victorious both over them and in them; The iron will of one stout heart shall make a thousand quail: A feeble dwarf, dauntlessly resolved, will turn the tide of battle, And rally to a nobler strife the giants that had fled. Tupper—Proverbial Philosophy. Of Faith. L. 11. | 9 |
| Nusquam tuta fides. Confidence is nowhere safe. Vergil—Æneid. IV. 373. | 10 |
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