Thanks to President Bush and Republican principles, businesses now have more confidence to hire workers.
My personal definition of confidence is to keep believing that the stars in the solar system are actually watching and applauding you.
The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.
Not hippie - my parents were not hippies - but they were very supportive and encouraging, and that does a lot for someone, and it gives them a lot of confidence.
By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate.
Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences.
When you work and earn money as a child, you need to be confident, but it can make you a bit precocious, and I think I was a bit of a pain for a while when I was young.
When you have a lot of construction going on, it sends a message of vitality that builds up consumer confidence. It gets people to spend money when they see that energy, that things are happening.
There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace.
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.
I see success as bringing some confidence back to the American people that despite our differences, we can find some ways to move forward.
A vote of confidence from Cisco Systems can be very important to fledging technology companies, especially if they have initial public offerings on the horizon.
I'm certainly not shy, but I like playing it because I love those characters that are incredibly confident but really still a mess.
I'm becoming more and more confident and am falling more and more in love with the whole world of comedy, and I think that's something that I really want to explore a lot more.
I'm confident in my intentions and why I'm making music. I'm not making music because I want to be on your TV screen or the cover of your magazine.
Some men think that if you're empowered and sure of yourself then you're a man-hater, but it's like, 'No, I'm just the same as you are, but maybe just a tiny bit more confident.'
Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.
I will always be confident in the direction of my dreams because that's the life I wish to live.
I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.
We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.