Confidence - Confidence in Others

Confidence in Others

People may have confidence in other people or forces beyond their control. For instance, one might have confidence in the police to protect them, or might have confidence that a sports team will win a game. Faith and trust are synonyms of confidence when used in this sense.

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Famous quotes containing the words confidence in and/or confidence:

    “If a man has been his mother’s undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.”
    —Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)

    “I cannot give them my confidence; pardon me, gentlemen, confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom: youth is the season of credulity.”
    —William, Earl Of Pitt (1708–1778)