This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Meister Eckhart, formally Meister von Hochheim
There is nothing to test the perfection of love better than trust. Wholehearted love for another person carries confidence with it. Whatever one dares to trust God for, he really finds in God and a thousand times more.
Better | Confidence | God | Love | Nothing | Perfection | Trust | God |
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot succeed. A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement.
Achievement | Attainment | Confidence | Inferiority | Self | Self-confidence | Self-realization | Sense |
How do you build confidence in yourself? Take your mind off the things that seem to be against you. Thinking about negative factors simply builds them up into a power they need not have.
Confidence | Mind | Need | Power | Thinking |
To grow and know what one is growing towards - that is the source of all strength and confidence in life.
Confidence | Life | Life | Strength |
Pope John Paul II, born Karol Józef Wojtyła, aka Saint John Paul the Great NULL
Peace is not just the absence of war. It involves mutual respect and confidence between peoples and nations. It involves collaboration and binding agreements. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.
Absence | Confidence | Faith | Nations | Peace | Respect | War | Respect |
Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.
Confidence | Society |
We observe with confidence that the truly strong mind, view it as intellect or morality, or under any other aspect, is nowise the mind acquainted with its strength; that here the sign of health is unconsciousness.
Confidence | Health | Mind | Morality | Strength | Unconsciousness | Intellect |
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free confidence of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
Confidence | Counsel | Men | Wisdom | Wise |
Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.
Confidence | Nothing | Friendship |
Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.
Confidence | Nothing | Friendship |
Colin Powell, fully Colin Luther Powell
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.
A teacher who tends to lower the self-esteem and confidence of his students should either change this tendency or change professions. One of the most important lessons an educator can convey to students is that they have inherent worth and should strive to utilize their potential.
Change | Confidence | Esteem | Important | Self | Self-esteem | Worth | Teacher |
Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.
Confidence | Little |
Eddie Rickenbacker, formally Edward Vernon "Eddie" Rickenbacker
If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.
Achievement | Confidence | Death | Life | Life | Will | Think |
Eddie Rickenbacker, formally Edward Vernon "Eddie" Rickenbacker
Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.
Achievement | Confidence | Life | Life |
We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.
Confidence | Need | Friends |
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
Confidence | Hope | Indispensable | Life | Life | Trust | Virtue | Virtue |
The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
Confidence | Man | Security | Strength |
Fred Rogers, "Mister Rogers," born Frederick McFeely Rogers
Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain.